Martin has partnered with Canadian singer-songwriter and pop sensation Shawn Mendes on two new signature acoustic guitars, each impressed by a classic Nineteen Twenties small-bodied Martin that’s change into an integral a part of Mendes’s writing and recording course of.

Martin’s skilled relationship with Shawn Mendes dates again to 2022, when the celebrity launched his 000JR-10E customized signature mannequin. We gave the strummer a robust 9/10 in our overview…

Now, Mendes’s lineup of signature Martins expands, with two full-sized acoustics, a 000-28 and 000-10E.

The inspiration for each started with the classic Martin 0-42 Mendes present in a Brooklyn guitar store, which boasted a compact physique, pyramid bridge, distinctive pickguard and slotted headstock design. Martin later constructed a stage guitar for Shawn based mostly on that instrument, which serves because the inspiration for the 2 new acoustics.

“Martin guitars are my first go-to guitar to select up once I’m singing,” Mendes says. “They really feel like they’ve a narrative in them. They really feel like they’ve songs in them.”

“It’s tremendous essential to me to have multiple possibility – a extra accessible guitar for folks and one that’s nearer to the factor that I play onstage.”

The 000-28 is the extra restricted of the 2, restricted to only 88 guitars worldwide, and sporting stable East Indian rosewood again and sides with a stable spruce prime, herringbone trim, and Golden Period scalloped X-bracing. Additional appointments embrace a pyramid-style ebony bridge, distinctive fake tortoise pickguard and slotted headstock with gold Waverly side-mount tuners. A candy visible contact comes with Shawn’s customized mother-of-pearl eagle inlay on the ebony fingerboard.

Every of those guitars comes with a molded hardshell case plus a signed, individually numbered inside label.

In the meantime, the 000-10E Shawn Mendes is the extra accessible of the 2, made totally utilizing FSC-certified tonewoods, together with stable sapele again and sides with a stable spruce prime, scalloped X-bracing, the identical customized eagle inlay, and the primary straightline pyramid bridge provided in Martin’s Street Sequence.

In the meantime, the guitar includes a Performing Artist neck with a high-performance taper, plus Martin E1 electronics with a built-in tuner. This one comes with a softshell case.

“It’s the extra accessible model of the 2 guitars, nevertheless it performs so superbly, so luxuriously, and it sounds actually, very nice,” Mendes says.

“Martin guitars are nice for a singer-songwriter as a result of you possibly can take them to 10, or they’ll sit with you at two,” he goes on. “They’re actually a companion for a singer-songwriter.”

The 000-28 Shawn Mendes and 000-10E Shawn Mendes can be found now, priced at $4,999.99 and $1,099.99, respectively.

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