Modern Martin products are, generally speaking, affordable their vintage models can fetch 5-6 thousand. Their guitars have evolved and changed shape many times in their lengthy history. Martin is more than twice the age of some of the previous brands they produce a range of acoustic stringed instruments as well as electric-acoustics. There are better guitars in their comparative price range. Only their private stock is of any real value. They have achieved plenty in a short space of time and are one of the few high-end bespoke brands to break into the mainstream industry. They also have limited series guitars such as their Dragon models as well as their private stock customized line which produces one-off pieces fetching upwards of $10,000. They produce an affordable line and signature line imported from Korea. They design and wind their pickups in-house and produce a spectrum of tonal qualities from a chiming Fender single coil Strat, to humbucking Gibson sounds. They feature signature fretboard inlays (crescent moons and birds) they use top ten selected maple and some are still hand made today. The high-end bespoke guitars they were producing had little competition so they had a good niche in the market. The big break came for Smith in the shape of none other than Carlos Santana. PRS guitars have operated out of Maryland for the last 3 decades, founded by master luthier Paul Reed Smith who began building guitars during his college years.
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