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Martin Signature Editions D-28 Billy Strings
New Martin 2025 Product Description
Martin has revamped the most popular series in the USA Martin Guitar Production for 2025 with the following features.
GOLDEN ERA APPOINTMENTS.
What is “The Golden Era”? Those years between the late 1920s and 1942 when a perfect storm of innovation, materials, and craftsmanship at Martin produced some of the world’s finest, most sought-after guitars that sound better as they age. The new Standard Series instruments now feature Sitka spruce Golden Era (GE) top bracing, as featured on the Modern Deluxe series, which offers a more vintage, breathy tone with enhanced sustain, and a new GE modern belly bridge with smoother, more comfortable corners
THE ENHANCED FINGERBOARD FEEL.
Demonstrate by holding a current Standard Series model alongside one of our refined models. Note the improved comfort that applies to the thinner fingerboard with a gently beveled edge.
Standard Series guitars also now feature bone or ebony bridge pins, depending on the model. Give a Standard Series a strum alongside a lower-level model to showcase the resonance.
AESTHETIC DIFFERENCES.
Aesthetic updates include a long diamond neck transition, the nut cut on an angle, and a sleeker vintage-style heel.
The Martin D-28 Billy Strings brings a modern twist to a classic pre-war design, incorporating features tailored to Billy’s electrifying playing style. This signature Dreadnought showcases a unique 25” scale length, reducing string tension for fast, intricate playing and expressive bends – perfectly suited for Billy’s rapid-fire licks.
With a slightly slimmer nut width and modified low oval satin neck, it offers enhanced comfort and speed, ideal for players who crave agility up and down the neck. The solid East Indian rosewood back and sides and spruce top deliver a full, resonant tone with rich bass, while the bold herringbone trim, antique toner, and antique white binding add vintage flair.
Nickel enclosed gear tuners, exclusive to Martin, and an ebony fingerboard with abalone diamond and square inlay round out the guitar’s looks and performance. It’s an ideal balance of traditional craftsmanship and modern playability, much like Billy’s genre-defying style. Each guitar features a custom paper label with his pre-printed signature and graphic.
UPC: 729789648073
Body Size: D-14 Fret
Top Material: Spruce
Bracing Pattern: Forward Shifted X Brace
Brace Shape: GE-Scalloped
Back Material: East Indian Rosewood
Side Material: East Indian Rosewood
Neck Material: Genuine Mahogany
Neck Shape: Modified Low Oval
Fingerboard Material: Ebony
Scale Length: 25"
Number of Frets Total: 20
Fingerboard Width at Nut: 1 23/32"
Fingerboard Inlay Style: Diamond and Square Long
Back and Side Finish: Gloss
Finish Top: Gloss
Top Color: Antique Toner
Finish Neck: Satin
Bridge Material: Ebony
Saddle: Compensated Bone
Tuning Machines: Nickel Enclosed Gear
Pickguard: Faux Tortoise
Case: Hardshell
Electronics: None
Left Handed Availability: Yes
Recommended Strings: Authentic Acoustic Lifespan 2.0 - Medium (MA550T)
Manufacturer Sku: 10Y2500028
Name: 000-28
Back And Side Finish: Gloss
Back And Sides Color: Natural
Back Detail: None
Back Inlay Material: Multi-Stripe
Back Material: East Indian Rosewood
Back Purfling Strip: Style 28 with Black Stripe
Binding: Antique White
Body Size: 000-14 Fret
Brace Material: Spruce
Brace Shape: GE-Scalloped
Brace Size: 5/16"
Bracing Pattern: X Brace
Bridge Material: Ebony
Bridge Pin Dots: Faux Tortoise
Bridge Pin Material: Bone
Bridge String Spacing: 2 5/32"
Bridge Style: GE Modern Belly- Drop in Saddle
Case: Molded Hardshell
Construction: Dovetail Neck Joint
Electronics: None
Electronics Options: None
Endpiece: Antique White
Endpiece Inlay: Multi-Stripe
Fingerboard Binding Material: None
Fingerboard Inlay Material: Abalone
Fingerboard Inlay Style: Diamond and Square Long
Fingerboard Material: Ebony
Fingerboard Width At 12Th Fret: 2 1/8''
Fingerboard Width At Nut: 1 3/4''
Finish Neck: Satin
Finish Top: Gloss
Headplate Binding Material: None
Headplate Logo Style: Script Old Style Overlay
Headplate Material: East Indian Rosewood
Headstock Shape: Solid with Square Taper and Diamond
Heelcap: Antique White
Knob: Butter Bean
Neck Color: Dark Mahogany
Neck Joins Body At: 14th Fret
Neck Material: Select Hardwood
Neck Shape: GE Modified Low Oval
Neck Taper: High Performance Taper
Number Of Frets Total: 20
Nut Material: Bone
Pickguard: Faux Tortoise
Pickguard Inlay: None
Pleked: Yes
Recommended Strings: Authentic Acoustic Lifespan 2.0 - Light (MA540T)
Rosette: Style 28 Multi-Stripe
Saddle: Compensated Bone
Saddle Radius: 16"
Scale Length: 24.9"
Side Detail: None
Side Dots: White
Side Inlay Material: None
Side Material: East Indian Rosewood
Top Color: Aging Toner
Top Detail: None
Top Inlay Material: Bold Herringbone
Top Material: Spruce
Tuning Machines: Nickel Open Gear
