Martin D-35 Standard Series Acoustic Guitar - Natural Aging Toner

Acoustic Guitar with Spruce Top, Rosewood Back and Sides, Select Hardwood Neck, and Ebony Fingerboard - Natural Aging Toner

Brandishing a beautiful 3-piece back and a bound fingerboard, the Martin D-35 Standard Series Acoustic Guitar - Natural Aging Toner delivers the muscular low-end boom that has made it a staple among rock songwriters and country strummers since its introduction in 1965. Available at Sadek Music, this refreshed Standard Series model brings classic Martin heritage into a modern performance-ready form. While the D-35 has evolved over the years, this updated version revisits Martin’s most cherished eras with a range of vintage-inspired appointments. The spruce top now features Golden Era (GE) bracing, enhancing the already responsive 1/4-inch bracing with greater richness, depth, and dynamic sensitivity. Flipping the guitar reveals the iconic 3-piece rosewood back and rosewood sides, which deliver a powerful low-end foundation paired with lush, enveloping overtones. This combination gives the D-35 its signature full-bodied voice, ideal for both strumming and detailed playing. The select hardwood neck with a GE Modified Low Oval profile and 1.75-inch nut width is designed for comfort and speed, catering to flatpickers, fingerstyle players, and casual strummers alike. Additional Standard Series refinements, including a thinner beveled ebony fingerboard and a sleek vintage-style heel, further enhance playability and aesthetics. The Martin D-35 Standard Series stands as a refined evolution of a legendary dreadnought design — available now at Sadek Music.

A throwback to Martin's mid-1960s heyday
So, what separates the Martin D-35 from its legendary and similarly spec’d sibling, the Martin D-28? The obvious differences are the D-35’s bound fingerboard, closed-back kidney-style tuners, and 3-piece back; the latter idea stretches back to Martin’s mid-1960s period when Brazilian rosewood stores were running dangerously thin. The D-35’s gorgeous 3-piece back design allowed Martin to maximize the efficiency of its remaining Brazilian rosewood stash. On modern D-35s, the 3-piece Indian rosewood back is largely an aesthetic throwback to that era, considering that Brazilian rosewood is now highly regulated. Yet, there’s one more hidden feature that differentiates the D-35: its 1/4-inch Forward Shifted X-bracing. Paired with the D-35’s rosewood back and sides, this dreadnought’s ultra-light bracing unleashes chest-shaking projection and a superb low-end wallop that ranks among the most authoritative in the Martin catalog.

Setting the standard for steel strings everywhere
If there were such a thing as a “standard” acoustic guitar shape, it would undoubtedly be the dreadnought. It’s Martin’s most iconic model and a key component to the cannon-like projection and booming bass response that’s defined the Nazareth sound since the D-18 and D-28 appeared in the early 1930s — and even earlier if you count Martin’s “Ditson” models! Whether you’re a flatpicking bluegrass phenom or a singer/songwriter open-chord strummer, a Martin dreadnought will provide you with a lifetime’s worth of superior steel-string tone.

Standard Series: Revisiting Timeless Martin Tradition

Considering the storied history of Martin’s acoustic guitar engineering and building practices, there’s no question that the company’s iconic models stand firm as the backbone of American steel-string instrument design. With this sentiment top of mind, Martin presents the refreshed Standard Series — a lineup dedicated to reviving the looks and tone of the brand’s golden-era vintage models while introducing a refined set of modern performance enhancements. Available at Sadek Music, the result is a comprehensive update to Martin’s most revered range of instruments, combining tonal authenticity with the comfort and versatility of a contemporary build. Across-the-board changes include highly responsive GE (Golden Era) bracing, thinner fingerboards with beveled edges, a refined vintage-style heel, angled nuts, and GE belly bridges equipped with bone or ebony bridge pins. The refreshed Standard Series also welcomes a return of several iconic models, including the 000-17, D-17, and OM-45. Enhanced with a wide range of musician-requested refinements, this collection harnesses the power of Martin’s legendary acoustics and brings them confidently back to center stage — available now at Sadek Music.

Martin D-35 Standard Features:

• A refresh to Martin’s iconic Standard series D-35, bringing several key specs back in line with the company’s golden-era models
• Signature D-35 1/4-in. Forward Shifted X-bracing provides this guitar with a responsive feel and an authoritative bass response that ranks near the top of Martin’s dreadnoughts
• Solid rosewood 3-piece back and rosewood sides deliver a deep and rich character with shimmering overtones, powerful low end, and clarity-packed highs
• Big-bodied Martin dreadnought design ensures ample low-end firepower and cannon-like projection
• Easy-playing select hardwood neck, capped with a slick satin finish and carved into Martin’s GE Modified Low Oval neck profile
• Bound 16-in.-radius ebony fingerboard with dot inlays
• Closed-back Kidney-style Martin tuners capture all the charm of Martin’s mid-’60s heyday
• Premium bone nut and compensated saddle, along with an ebony bridge and bone bridge pins
• Additional Standard series refresh features include a thinner fingerboard with comfortably beveled edges, a vintage-style heel, and an angled nut
• Traditional D-35 appointments include crisp white body binding, a multi-stripe rosette, and a faux tortoiseshell pickguard
• 1.75-in. nut width is slim enough for strummers and wide enough to accommodate fingerpickers

Tech Specs

• String Type:Steel
• Number of Strings:6
• Left-/Right-handed:Right-handed
• Body Shape:D-35 Standard Dreadnought
• Back & Sides Wood:Solid East Indian Rosewood
• Top Wood:Solid Spruce
• Top Finish:Gloss
• Color:Aging Toner
• Body Bracing:Forward Shifted X-brace
• Binding:Antique White
• Neck Wood:Select Hardwood
• Neck Finish:Satin
• Neck Shape:GE Modified Low Oval
• Radius:16"
• Fingerboard Material:Ebony
• Fingerboard Inlay:Style 28
• Number of Frets:20
• Scale Length:25.4"
• Nut Width:1.75"
• Nut Material:Bone
• Saddle Material:Compensated Bone
• Bridge Material:Ebony
• Tuning Machines:Nickel Open-gear
• Strings:Martin Authentic Acoustic Lifespan 2.0, .013-.056
• Case/Gig Bag:Hardshell Case