Something couch and concert-ready – musical on every level – we've got this Martin Custom Shop 28 Style 00 Grand Concert with an Italian Alpine spruce top and Wild Grain East Indian rosewood back and sides. Built up by high-quality woods, striking aesthetic features, and hand-selected elements by our team of Martin fiends here at Russo Music, this Martin Custom Shop Expert model is a masterful piece of Martin in motion.

Here at Russo Music, we're proud to be part of a small group of nationwide shops as a Martin Custom Shop Expert Dealer. With this, we're lucky to take part in unique Martin experiences like limited builds and releases. Here, we've got this specialized 00 concert model with woods hand-selected by our team on a trip to Martin headquarters in Nazareth, Pennsylvania that is exceptionally delightful at every level.

This Martin Custom Expert acoustic starts out with a 00 Grand Concert body brought together from an Italian Alpine spruce and two-piece premium Wild Grain East Indian rosewood back and sides – the latter selected by our team. This classic combo of Martin tonewoods make for a classic acoustic experience elevated due to their top-shelf quality throughout its smaller-scaled 00 concert body. A gloss lacquer body finish wraps its form with Martin's Antique Toner top color for a classily lived-in aesthetic on the couch or under stage lights.

Within its compact 00 shape, this Custom Expert features Martin's Golden Era hand-shaped scalloped spruce braces in an X-Brace pattern. This feature breathes throughout its body for a guitar that punches well above its weight class in terms of nuance and projection. Additionally, this concert's 12-Fret shape meets the neck at the twelfth fret for a different angle on playability.

From here, this Custom Expert concert brings on a select hardwood neck in Martin's Golden Era Modified Low Oval profile. Joining through dovetail neck joint construction and Martin's Modern Adhesive, again, at the twelfth fret, this neck slips in the hand smoothly with its slim oval shape and satin finish. The neck's High Performance taper additionally adds up for enhanced playability at lower and higher registers. An oiled black ebony fingerboard lines up here with nineteen Standard-sized frets for an effortless fretting feel. Across this Martin's dark ebony, unique Scalloped Diamond inlays with Red Stone and Mother of Pearl borders demand attention for a totally impressive, eye-catching and colorful aesthetic element.

To back up its musicality, this Martin Custom Expert features a number of sturdy hardware specifications. First, at the base of the scale, a Golden Era Modern Belly black ebony bridge grounds strings stably for a solid transfer of motion string-to-body. Toward its opposite end, a bone nut and Golden Age 2501B tuning machines appear for smooth stringing. What's more with stringing, a showstopper of this model – its slotted headstock – makes big impacts on playability and setup as it breaks from usual Martin tradition with style and uniqueness.

Aesthetically, this Custom Expert model keeps going with a number of other features. Its Wild Grain rosewood back is lined with HD Zig Zag purfling for a smaller, detailed Martin signature alongside Spanish cedar ribbons. Style 28 appointments continue on beyond across the whole model for a total classy sum.

Popping with color, style, uniqueness, and musicality, this Martin Custom Expert build overflows with show-stopping personality.

• Russo Music Martin Custom Shop Expert build
• Martin 12-Fret 00 Grand Concert body shape
• Italian Alpine spruce top with Martin Antique Toner gloss top color
• Russo Music hand-selected two-piece premium Wild Grain East Indian rosewood back and sides
• Martin Golden Era hand-shaped scalloped spruce braces in X-Brace pattern
• Satin-finished neck with Martin Modern Adhesive and dovetail neck joint assembly
• Golden Era Modified Low Oval neck profile with High Performance taper
• Oiled black ebony fingerboard with nineteen Standard frets
• Scalloped Diamond inlays with Red Stone and Mother of Pearl borders
• Black ebony Golden Era Modern Belly bridge with drop-in compensated bone saddle
• Slotted headstock with Golden Age 2501B relic nickel tuning machines and bone nut
• HD Zig Zag back purfling with spruce center strip and Spanish cedar ribbons
• Martin five-ply hardshell case included