Thursday, March 19, 2026

27 thoughts on “Martin DM guitar BEST INEXPENSIVE ACOUSTIC GUITAR EVER jamie kindleyside review how to save money

  • Awesome video! Hilarious cameo by the son! Great info for those of us thinking we need a D28 only to feel guilty and hide it from the wife. Peace. ????????

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  • I just picked one up in a pawn shop for $600. I am used to $3000+ guitars and this things surprised me. Sounds amazing, plays amazing – Plays and sounds like a $3000 guitar. It's like a HD-28 for $600 weird. Mine is from 2000 (25 years old) and I just can't belive it. No gloss or frills, but the spruce top is doing that aging thing that's really nice. Thanks for the video.

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  • I have one …. they have a bolt on neck with a mortise and ten on neck ..the fretboard extention is glued … but you only need a modified cake knive and and you wife's iron to soften the glue and you can reset it fast… the neck bolt is under that plate on the neck block …its stuck there with double stick tape ..so a cake knife, an iron, and a piece of sandpaper and you can do a neck reset easy.

    These guitars have laminate back and sides … but they boom ..

    They sell a Custom D that's all wood , Spruce top, Rosewood back and sides .. and it booms too .. but don't know if it's a dovetail neck or mortise and trunion..but it's about the same price as a DM ..600-700

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  • When i was in the market for a “bar” guitar I checked out both the D-1 and the DM. I didn’t cars much for the rosette around the sound hole of the DM so I bought the D-1 which had the more ornate style rosette like the D-18s of the time. The additional benefit of preferring the slightly fancier ornamentation of the D-1 is that the D-1 has a solid back whereas the DM had a laminated back so I assume it sounds a bit better. In any case it definitely proved itself and a few years later I boughtthe 00-1 which had the same ornamentation but is small enough to use as a good travel guitar.

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  • I had 2 of them from the 90ts , they are better than one would think , just wonderful, and NOT particularly delicate, as D-18 such can be , They are good!…

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  • What's ironic is that the DM cost $600 new when I was looking at getting one as a kid in the 90s/early 00s. It's absolutely crazy to me that this thing held it's value as a laminated guitar, but I think the X series play more like countertops and don't have the traditional laminations of real wood anymore like these did. You are still getting great vibration from a guitar like this. Like you said though, good value in an instrument especially because what makes them attractive was that they were still built in PA at the Nazareth factory and not in Mexico. I have nothing against Mexican production either – Fender make amazing electric guitars in Mexico, but the Martin employees and craftspeople are second to none at the PA factory. You are getting their consistency there in the DM.

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  • Hi, great video. Own a DM again and love it. Since I started this video I was thinking about the meaning of the German license plate behind you? Any story about it? Thanks again for sharing this guitar with us. Cheers

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  • SPOIL THE ROD AND BEAT THE CHILD WITH A MARTIN D-28 – QUOTE FROM GEORGE WUBYA BUSH!!!
    LAMO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    YOUR VIDEO WAS GREAT – THE DRUM BEAT ON THE MIC WITH A FRENCH-FRY MADE MY DAY – I ENJOYED THE REVIEW OF THE MARTIN DM – BUT THE FAMILY TIME WAS THE BEST – I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT YOU TIED THE LIL FELLOW UP AFTER THE CAMERA WAS OFF, STUFFED A SOCK IN HIS MOUTH, AND ATE ALL HIS FRENCH-FRIES, BUT EVEN THEN YOU HAVE THE PATIENCE OF JOB MY GOOD MAN (LMAO!!!).

    GOOD VIDEO – MADE MY DAY – BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • I bought an American Martin D-1gt from around 2005 that is my go to, like you said they boom. The only thing I would add is they have a piano like ring that I absolutely love. You have a new subscriber.

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  • I'm from Russia, but I've been for work and travel in the USA back in 2007 and bought DM in Guitar Center in Utah. I crossed America with it, recorded and giged in Russia. On the 7th year deck cracked, but master fixed it well. Now guitar plays very good. Sometimes it only seems that 1st string slides out of board while sliding by fingers, I donno is it my fault.. or kind of something wrong.

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  • I’ve got one. I’ve had it 23 years. I bought it when they first came out. Sounds great.

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  • I bought one of these back around 20 years ago. I’m still amazed with the sound of it. Congratulations ????

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  • I own one. LOVE IT. Short version, it's a D18 that trades all frills for forward shifted scalloped bracing (hence the window rattling Thundercannon Mode if you dig into it). Mine plays fantastic and sounds incredible. If you find one, they are bargains. Buy it, love it, play the motherloving shit out of it.

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