Martin SC-18E Acoustic-Electric Guitar Natural

The Martin SC-18E acoustic-electric guitar brings together the company's decades of experience crafting classic instruments with innovative features for the modern player. This gloss-finished guitar has the resonant solid spruce top, and mahogany back and sides, Martin is renowned for, producing full, balanced tone with articulate highs and warm, rich lows. With its comfortable neck profile and smooth satin finish, the SC-18E's patented Sure Align neck system allows easy playing all the way up the fingerboard. Timeless appointments like black binding and nickel open-gear tuners give the SC-18E a refined, vintage-inspired look. As part of the Standard Series, the SC-18E is handcrafted in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, using time-honored construction techniques and exquisite attention to detail.

Resonant Tonewoods Provide Versatile Sound

The Martin SC-18E's solid spruce top, and mahogany back and sides, are carefully chosen for their tonal properties. Spruce produces bright, complex overtones in the mids and highs, while mahogany projects warmth and richness in the lows and low mids. Together, they create a versatile sound that works equally well for strumming chords, fingerpicking melodies or soloing in the upper registers. An internal soundboard recurve further enhances the bass response, offering balanced, immersive sound across the tonal spectrum. The SC-18E's resonant complexity is one of its many charms, providing both players and audiences an acoustic experience unlike any other.

Refined Looks With Timeless Style

With its gloss top, satin neck and black binding, the SC-18E has an elegant, vintage-inspired look, simultaneously modernized by its unique, asymmetrical single-cutaway body shape. The guitar is spec’d with open-gear tuners featuring nickel hardware, a multi-stripe rosette and timeless tortoise pickguard. Its fingerboard and bridge are ebony, and the headstock is adorned with a signature Martin script logo. The SC-18E beautifully encapsulates nearly two centuries of master luthiery, with contemporary aesthetic and functional appointments appealing to traditionalists and trailblazers just the same.