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One-of-one Martin guitars, designed by our team and built in Nazareth, Pennsylvania.
Martin Custom Shop takes more than 190 years of acoustic heritage and shapes it around one player at a time. No preset formula - every build starts with a musical idea, then wood, bracing, neck feel, nut width, and appointments get chosen to serve it.
That's where we come in. Tone Shop Guitars is one of a small group of Martin Custom Expert dealers, and most of the customs on our wall were designed in-house by Mike Doty, who hand-selects the wood sets and writes the specs himself. We don't order customs. We design them - and it's why players across Texas and beyond come to us first.
Craftsmanship
In Nazareth, tops are graded and voiced individually, braces are shaped for the right balance of power and sensitivity, and necks are carved for how a guitar feels in year ten, not just on the showroom wall. Small decisions, stacked correctly, are the whole difference.
The customs on our wall are ready now - designed in-house, set up in-house, and chosen for tone, feel, and long-term value. Come play them side by side at any of our three DFW stores, or have one shipped anywhere in the country.
Shop In-Stock Customs
Go beyond what's on the wall. Tell us what you're hearing and we'll shape a build around it - wood selection, neck feel, appointments, final setup, all of it guided by people who do this every week.
Start a Custom BuildA few builds we keep pulling off the wall ourselves.
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$11,735.00
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Wood sets, inlay, and finish work from recent builds.
Martin Custom Shop exists for players who want more than a catalog instrument. Working from the same Nazareth, Pennsylvania factory that has defined the steel-string acoustic since 1833, the Custom Shop builds one-off guitars with specs, woods, and aesthetics tailored to a single player.
Many builds draw on Martin's pre-war golden era: Adirondack spruce tops, traditional X-bracing, dovetail neck joints, and thin nitrocellulose finishes, with VTS torrefaction available for a played-in voice on day one. Others lean modern, with low-profile necks, cutaways, onboard electronics, and wood pairings aimed at specific tonal goals.
Every build starts with a conversation about how you play, what you hear, and what you want the guitar to do. From there, scale length, nut width, bracing, binding, and inlay are all chosen to serve that sound - and as a Martin Custom Expert dealer, Tone Shop Guitars can take that conversation further than most, with in-house wood selection and spec writing on the majority of our builds.
For players chasing nuance, dynamic response, and an instrument that will outlast trends, a Martin Custom Shop guitar is the most personal way to own a piece of the company that invented the form.
Martin Custom Shop
Tell us what you're hearing. We'll follow up to talk woods, specs, and what makes sense for how you play - no commitment, just a conversation.
