Martin OM-30 DB "Pat Donohue"
Martin OM-30 DB "Pat Donohue"
Martin’s very limited edition “Pat Donahue” model … and Pat was Garrison Keillor’s guitarist on “A Prairie Home Companion” for many years. 14 frets or not, this is a real live fingerstyle machine, and an awful lot of Martin guitar for the price!
b&s: East Indian rosewood
top: Adirondack spruce
nut: 1-13/16”
bracing: 1/4” scalloped X-braces
deep body … Nick Lucas-y, to mix a metaphor
purfling: intricate, multi-colored parallelogram wood marquetry
neck: genuine mahogany, modified V with diamond volute
fingerboard: ebony, w/ snowflake position markers at the 5th fret, two slotted squares at the 7th fret, a Maltese cross at the 9th fret, and Pat Donohue's "PD" initials at the 12th fret
headstock: slotted with square slots and Martin pressure stamp, torch abalone inlay
tuners: Waverly brass with small ivoroid keys, engraved gold plates
bridge: ebony pyramid with wide string spacing
saddle: fossilized ivory
bridge pins, nut & endpin: bone
string spacing: 2-5/16”
interior label signed by Pat Donohue himself