The guitar is built with solid sapele top, back and sides, tonally and visually reminiscent of mahogany. A classic wood that produces a warm and resonant tone. The entire guitar is discreetly styled with a beautiful multi-stripe rosette and a black pickguard. The body is finished with a beautiful satin finish, and the neck has a soft and comfortable ‘hand-rubbed’ finish.
Premium Martin guitars, like the D-10E Retro Sapele, are plek-treated for a more consistent playability. Plek Pro is an advanced, computer-controlled process that scans, levels and processes the frets so that every note in every position rings loud and clear with an immaculate timbre.
The built-in Martin E1 pickup in the Martin D-10E Retro Sapele not only produces exceptional amplified acoustic tone, it also provides added convenience via the soundhole-mounted tuner. This cleverly placed tuner faces upwards and has an auto-mute function, allowing you to tune in silence on stage with a perfect line-of-sight view of your tuning status for each string.
- All Solid: True
- Body Size: Dreadnought
- Top Wood: Sapele
- Back & Sides Wood: Sapele
- Finish: Satin
- Color: Natural
- Cutaway: False
- Electronics: True
- Pickup system: Martin E1
- Construction: Mortise/Tenon
- Body bracing: X-bracing
- Bracing: Scalloped
- Pickup plate: Faux Tortoise
- Neck material: Select hardwood
- Neck profile: Performing Artist, High-Performance Taper
- Radius: 16"
- Fingerboard material: Select Hardwood
- Fingerboard inlays: Diamonds and Squares Short Pattern
- Number of frets: 20
- PLATE treated: True
- Scale: 25.4" (645 mm)
- Saddle width: 1.75" (44.45 mm)
- Saddle material: White Corian
- Saddle inlay material: White Tusq, compensated
- Bridge material: Select Hardwood
- Tuning screws: Nickel open gear
- Case/Gig Bag: Softshell Case