Martin to launch Orchestra Model John Renbourn Custom at Summer NAMM

The Summer NAMM announcements are beginning and C.F. Martin & Co. are leading with their new OMM John Renbourn Custom Artist Edition.

John Renbourn

Celebrating the long career of the fingerstyle legend, this guitar will be featured alongside C. F. Martin’s other new products – including strings, new ukulele models and more to be announced shortly – at Summer NAMM in Nashville from July 21-23 (BOOTH # 1200).

Here’s their announcement:

C.F. Martin & Co. is proud to announce the introduction of the new OMM John Renbourn Custom Artist Edition guitar. The guitar celebrates the long career of the fingerstyle guitar legend.

For more than 40 years, Renbourn has remained a prominent fingerstyle guitarist, as a member of Pentangle in the late-1960s and early-1970s, as a solo artist in the 1970s and 1980s, and most recently as a collaborator with various artists. The Renbourn Artist Edition is inspired by Renbourn’s preference for orchestra model guitars and the original orchestra model guitar made by C.F. Martin & Co. in 1929.



The new instrument features a classic Martin Orchestra Model design made of solid premium tonewoods. The top is made of Italian alpine spruce, rare Madagascar rosewood on the back and sides, with a neck carved from genuine mahogany. An ebony headplate features a detailed unicorn inlay in abalone pearl, gold and white mother of pearl and Micarta, while the ebony fingerboard features a unique mother of pearl pentangle (five-pointed star) design.

The model is finished with a polished gloss lacquer finish with aging toner on the top to enhance its vintage style and is protected in a Geib-style hardshell case. Each of the limited edition custom guitars bears an interior label personally signed by John Renbourn and is numbered in sequence. Additionally, each guitar is equipped with Martin SP Lifespan phosphor bronze strings.

For more information visit martinguitar.com

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