Today we're taking a deep dive into Martin Guitar necks. Neck shape, neck width, neck profile, string spacing, nut width, scale length - if it's related to the part of the guitar between the headstock & body - it's in today's show.

This podcast features the conversation and opinions of musician T Spoon Phillips. A writer by trade, Spoon's longtime association with professional musicians, luthiers, and music historians affords him a richly unique perspective on all things acoustic guitar. This includes decades of close friendship with executives and employee at C. F. Martin & Company, past and present, and the host of this podcast, Maury Rutch of Maury’s Music.    

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2025 Martin Guitar Refreshed Standard Series with Rameen Shayegan! Welcome to the Martins & More podcast S6 E6. Spoon sat down with Martin's International instrument design manager Rameen Shayegan to discuss the new 2025 refreshed Standard series as well as new Road series models 000E Retro Plus and DE Retro plus!

Martin 000-45 Joe Bonamassa! In today's episode of your favorite Martin Guitar podcast, we're discussing the "newest old Martin Guitar" in style 45 - the limited edition 000-45 Joe Bonamassa!

This podcast features the conversation and opinions of musician T Spoon Phillips. A writer by trade, Spoon's longtime association with professional musicians, luthiers, and music historians affords him a richly unique perspective on all things acoustic guitar. This includes decades of close friendship with executives and employee at C. F. Martin & Company, past and present, and the host of this podcast, Maury Rutch of Maury’s Music.    

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Our pals Teja Gerken & Doug Young have a new album called "The Water is Wide". Let's talk about it!

This podcast features the conversation and opinions of musician T Spoon Phillips. A writer by trade, Spoon's longtime association with professional musicians, luthiers, and music historians affords him a richly unique perspective on all things acoustic guitar. This includes decades of close friendship with executives and employee at C. F. Martin & Company, past and present, and the host of this podcast, Maury Rutch of Maury’s Music.    

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NEW Martin Guitars for winter NAMM 2025! In today's episode of your favorite Martin Guitar podcast, we're discussing some NEW models for winter NAMM 2025. Martin D 3 Millionth, D-300, CEO-11, Grand J-28 Doubleneck and many more!

This podcast features the conversation and opinions of musician T Spoon Phillips. A writer by trade, Spoon's longtime association with professional musicians, luthiers, and music historians affords him a richly unique perspective on all things acoustic guitar. This includes decades of close friendship with executives and employee at C. F. Martin & Company, past and present, and the host of this podcast, Maury Rutch of Maury’s Music.    

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NEW: Martin Guitar 2025 Standard Series Refresh and DE Retro Plus, 000E Retro plus Road Series models! Back in 2018, Martin Guitar gave the standard series some serious upgrades. Now, for 2025 they're taking it even further. But that's not all ... they're also adding a few NEW models to the series & we think they're gonna be very well-received. Sit back & relax as we discuss this exciting news from Martin Guitar!  

This podcast features the conversation and opinions of musician T Spoon Phillips. A writer by trade, Spoon's longtime association with professional musicians, luthiers, and music historians affords him a richly unique perspective on all things acoustic guitar. This includes decades of close friendship with executives and employee at C. F. Martin & Company, past and present, and the host of this podcast, Maury Rutch of Maury’s Music.    

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Peter Cree of Cree Studios! Martins & More with Spoon Phillips welcomes you to season 6! We 're kicking off this new season with a conversation for the ages! Our good pal Peter Cree talks art, culture, guitar, design and so much more. How did Peter Cree get involved in guitar art? When & how did he become associated with Martin Guitar? Does he really live a few blocks away from the Martin Guitar factory?? These answers and more, on today's episode. Thanks for being here!

This podcast features the conversation and opinions of musician T Spoon Phillips. A writer by trade, Spoon's longtime association with professional musicians, luthiers, and music historians affords him a richly unique perspective on all things acoustic guitar. This includes decades of close friendship with executives and employee at C. F. Martin & Company, past and present, and the host of this podcast, Maury Rutch of Maury’s Music.    

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Today we're taking a field trip to visit our friends at Brothers Music Shop in Wind Gap, PA! Let's see what fun projects Dave & Rich are working on.

This podcast features the conversation and opinions of musician T Spoon Phillips. A writer by trade, Spoon's longtime association with professional musicians, luthiers, and music historians affords him a richly unique perspective on all things acoustic guitar. This includes decades of close friendship with executives and employee at C. F. Martin & Company, past and present, and the host of this podcast, Maury Rutch of Maury’s Music.    

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Craig Thatcher & The Martin 000-11E! In today's episode of your favorite Martin Guitar podcast, we're chatting with Craig Thatcher about his new signature model and lots of other topics. When did Craig get his first guitar? What's the deal with his acclaimed Eric Clapton retrospective show? How & when did Craig get involved with Martin Guitar? Let's find out!

This podcast features the conversation and opinions of musician T Spoon Phillips. A writer by trade, Spoon's longtime association with professional musicians, luthiers, and music historians affords him a richly unique perspective on all things acoustic guitar. This includes decades of close friendship with executives and employee at C. F. Martin & Company, past and present, and the host of this podcast, Maury Rutch of Maury’s Music.    

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New Martin Guitar Models for fall, 2024. Martin has already released some great new guitars ahead of the official January NAMM show. OMC-10E, D-11E Rock the Vote, HG-28 O'ahu & 000-15E are just some of the new offerings already available at Martin Guitar in the fall of 2024. Sit back & relax as we get you up to speed on the newest Martin guitar models.

This podcast features the conversation and opinions of musician T Spoon Phillips. A writer by trade, Spoon's longtime association with professional musicians, luthiers, and music historians affords him a richly unique perspective on all things acoustic guitar. This includes decades of close friendship with executives and employee at C. F. Martin & Company, past and present, and the host of this podcast, Maury Rutch of Maury’s Music.    

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