A Martin D-28 fitted with... what!?

[simoncroft]

I was looking at the Norman's Rare Guitars web site, when I came across this: https://www.normansrareguitars.com/martin-d-28-with-bigsby-headstock.html

As described, it's a Martin D-28 with a Bigsby headstock. Not being inclined to splash almost $3,000, I don't have the heart to place the "WTF?" call to Norman, so I'll probably never know the how or why's of this one.

 

[Chipss36]

So many levels of wrong here!

 

[simoncroft]

So many levels of wrong here!

I'm almost certain Martin would never have released such an instrument, which leaves us with someone 'improving' a D-28 after the event.

 

[Archtops]

I have to admit that’s really weird!

 

[monte merrick]

now it looks like a fender concord.

 

[rocknrollrich]

No no no. All wrong.

 

[Guy Named Sue]

It certainly is rare...

 

[Ebidis]

I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.

 

[Steve J]

This is indeed a real Martin, as it left the factory. They came out w them a few years ago. I believe in 2017-18, or thereabouts.

 

[Oldboy]

https://www.google.com/search?q=D-2...30j69i60l3.21004j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

 

[jbylake]

I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.

Be a man and swallow it. Might toughen it up when a new guy re-routes grandpa's old guitar for a EVH humbucker, then finds a new pickguard won't fit a '57 Strat.

 

[Ebidis]

Be a man and swallow it. Might toughen it up when a new guy re-routes grandpa's old guitar for a EVH humbucker, then finds a new pickguard won't fit a '57 Strat.

I did, and washed it down with some tequila.

 

[jbylake]

I did, and washed it down with some tequila.

O.K., a man with BALLS!

 

[Mansonienne]

Ye gods! That's just wrong.

 

[Bazz Jass]

You all got this man to thank....

 

[Bazz Jass]

Hey, it could be worse....

 

[monte merrick]

Hey, it could be worse....

those clips! like holding up a bathroom mirror! i heart them very much!

 

[El Gobernador]

I got no problem with it. A wonderful nod to a guitar pioneer.

www.guitarworld.com/amp/gear/martin-debuts-new-d28-bigsby-acoustic

 

[CigBurn]

I'd put a floyd rose on it..

 

[mikej89]