Join Steve on a tour of the Martin Guitar factory in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, and learn how the craftspeople behind our guitars turn raw wood, metal, and wire into some of music’s most iconic instruments. In the first episode of our three-part tour series, Steve starts at the beginning of a guitar’s journey, taking you down into the Martin sawmill, acclimating room, and subassembly department, where tops, backs, and sides are inspected, matched, and glued, braces are cut, and neck barrels and fin

“It’s probably impossible to prove, but it’s likely that the Martin dreadnought is the most recorded guitar in history”: How the Martin D-18 and D-28 changed the world – and became the definitive acoustic guitars

The birth and evolution of the Martin D-18 Dreadnought – the archetypical acoustic guitar