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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Totally unintentionally I traded a couple of nice guitars and a little bit of cash and this puppy followed me home!
MARTIN OM-42 Flamed Myrtle Limited Edition
 
 
 
000-size body, Flamed Myrtle back and sides, Engelmann spruce top
Scalloped braces, ivoroid binding with abalone trim around top
Mahogany low profile neck, ebony belly bridge with 6-point snowflakes inlaid
Bound ebony fretboard (25.4" scale, 1 3/4" nut width) with 45 style abalone snowflakes bordered in pearl
Ebony headstock overlay with C.F. Martin block inlay logo in abalone bordered in white pearl
Gold vintage style gears with Martin script logo engraved in the buttons
Delmar tortoise pickguard, Geib style hardshell case (#533E)
Special inside label is signed by Chris Martin and numbered in sequence with total (18 of 24) |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Not bad for a Box guitar...
M(youknowitsawesomedude)Woody |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Stephen,
I think I just heard a gasp from Ft. Myers...
Congrats on a beaut! 
BTW, I had more than one puppy 'follow' me home... my folks wouldn't let me keep them...
Patty's a lot more understanding.  |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | yeah, sure it did. |
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Location: southeast michigan | WOW what a beauty--even if it's all wood. CONGRAT"S. If it ever wants to runaway from home she could stay with me! |
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Location: Tennessee | How's it sound? Any special inflection from the Myrtlewood? |
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Location: Cincinnati | Beautiful guitar, Stephen. What is Myrtlewood? |
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Location: South of most, North of few | It comes from a Myrtle tree Jack.... :p
Stephen, I knew you were smart enough to come around eventually. :D |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | Well...
There once was a woman named Myrtle,
who could no longer wear her girdle
She began taking walks in the forest,
to find special top-wood was her quest
She searched high and low
but still didn't know.
The spruce and the cedar would be the woods of choice, for the finest guitar top's voice.
Anyway .... That's a nice instrument, congrats! |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Nice T28. I own the same guitar is rosewood. It's my favorite OM. Love the looks of that myrtle wood, almost looks a little like koa. Congratulations. |
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Location: closely held secret | Myrtle trees grow primarily on the southern Oregon/Northern California coast, and in Israel.
In the 30's the city of North Bend, OR issued myrtlewood coins when the last bank in town failed.
It does make a pretty guitar back, and it's pretty dense. They also make some other cool stuff out of it...
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Location: SoCal | Great guitar. I've played several Martin OM's and enjoyed them all. Not exactly my cup of tea, but those who own them tend to love them...... |
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Location: WNC-God's Country | Their once was a man from Sinclair
Making love to his wife on the stairs
The bannister broke
He quickened his stroke
And finished her off in mid-air
nice guitar |
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Location: Upper Left USA | 
Myrtle Tree
Myrtle tree foliage is very dense. When viewed at a distance, one does not see the branch structure as in other trees. It is so symmetrical it would seem to be a carefully pruned, cultivated tree. When small, the tree looks and grows like a shrub. Different stocks grow together to form the trunk.
Minerals drawn up from the soil color the wood. The conditions experienced by the tree during growth causes many grain patterns to appear in myrtle: burls, tiger-stripe, fiddle-back, quilt and flame grain. Myrtlewood’s color ranges from golden hues to velvet black with warm brown, yellows, greens and reds, from ebony to a rich maple color.
Isaiah 55:13
Instead of the thornbush will grow the pine tree, and instead of briers the myrtle will grow.
This will be for the LORD's renown, for an everlasting sign, which will not be destroyed. |
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Location: Cincinnati | Originally posted by Trader Jim:
It comes from a Myrtle tree Jack.... :p
Thanks, TJ.
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Location: Cincinnati | Thanks, Wabbit and Woody. |
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Location: Wichita, KS | Since this thread has already evoked one real and one near limerick:
No one can tell about Myrtle
Whether she's sterile or fertile
If anyone tries
To tickle her thighs
She closes them tight like a turtle
and:
My wife Myrtle's womb has a habit
Of expanding whenever I stab it
What's more, my wife Myrtle
Is so wondrously fertile
That she's giving me kids like a rabbit
Obviously two different Myrtles. |
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Location: Location Location Location | Gee, that's a beauty. I wouldn't mind that following me home!
I'd love to know how it sounds, especially compared to its rosewood brother. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by stonebobbo:
How's it sound? Any special inflection from the Myrtlewood? To begin with I am not a huge Martin fan and to be honest have never really found one that floated my boat over an extended period of time. The HD28VS that I sold to Tony C was probably the finest sounding of the 4-5 Martins I have owned but none of them really bonded with me like the Collings and a few others.
Most of my guitars are either mahogany or rosewood (with a madagascar, maple, and walnut thrown in). This guitar does not really sound like any of them.
If I had to find a direct comparison it would be maple but it does not really sound the same. It has a fatter sound than what I normally hear from maple even though it seems to share the crisp open undertones that I associate with that body type.....it has a bit more "chime" and has a more "woody" sound yet the individual string clarity is superb and a full on strum is distinct yet lush.
I went to the local high end store to pick up one of the 3 guitars I had on consignment (possible cash buyer) and Tim who runs the acoustic guitar department said he had a guitar he wanted me to play. He knows I am not a huge fan of Taylors or Martins so I was surprised when he gave me a special built Taylor to play (breathtakingly gorgeous by the way). Possibly the finest sounding and playing Taylor I have tried and I really liked it but not enough to drop 5K on it.
Then he brought over the Martin OM-42 and told me this was really the one he wanted me to try.
Talk about instant bonding. From the first strum a little shiver ran up my spine. It sounded different from all the other guitars I had played yet somehow hauntingly familiar. It was GAS at its finest!...and it is spectacular looking..so much better than the pictures can portray.
I played it for about 15-20 minutes and told him it was fabulous but no way could I afford it. He then proceeded to tell me that if I wanted to trade the 2 guitars I had left at the store and a little cash we could make a deal.
Played it another 15-20 minutes and BAAAAMMMM!!!! Done deal and I absolutely love it. It looks great, feels great, plays like butter and has a full unique sound that fits in beautifully with my other guitars.
After I got home and looked it up on the web.....who wouldv'e thought....a 1 3/4" nut! No wonder it felt so right.
This one is a keeper for the long term foreseeable future. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by Gallerinski:
Love the looks of that myrtle wood, almost looks a little like koa. I thought the same thing about the appearance of the wood. The photos actually make it look brighter and a bit more orange than it actually looks in your hands. It is more of a soft brown woodtone with the dark stripe running down each side more the color of brown loafers. Very subtle yet prominent in how the color blends together. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | By the way, the headstock and neck shots are just stock photos from Elderlys cause that part of the guitar is always gonna look the same. Just thought the inlays were worth showing.
The body shots are of my actual guitar. |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | They ARE beautiful guitars. I played a few different ones at a visit to Elderly's a couple of years ago. |
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Location: Nashville TN. | you scored!! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I just picked up a Vox AC 30 in africkan mahogony cabinet at the golf tournament. Let's see how that excuse works for amps........ |
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Location: East Tennessee | Beal,
Did you win it? What was your score? |
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It followed me home....HONEST
