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Martin Custom Shop "D" Dreadnought Acoustic Guitar, Sloped Shoulder 28 Style, Italian Alpine Spruce/Wild Grain East Indian Rosewood

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Martin Custom Shop "D" Dreadnought Acoustic Guitar, Sloped Shoulder 28 Style, Italian Alpine Spruce/Wild Grain East Indian RosewoodIt happens every now and again, you get something truly special just like this Martin Custom Shop Sloped Shoulder "D" Dreadnought with an Italian alpine spruce top and Wild Grain East Indian rosewood back and sides. With hand selected woods from our expert team here at Russo Music, this Martin Custom Shop build builds out with exotic woods, highly modern playability elements, and refined aesthetic flourishes. Here at Russo Music, we're proud to hold

It happens every now and again, you get something truly special – just like this Martin Custom Shop Sloped Shoulder "D" Dreadnought with an Italian alpine spruce top and Wild Grain East Indian rosewood back and sides. With hand-selected woods from our expert team here at Russo Music, this Martin Custom Shop build builds out with exotic woods, highly modern playability elements, and refined aesthetic flourishes.

Here at Russo Music, we're proud to hold the distinction of being one of a few nationwide "Martin Custom Expert" dealers. This distinction grants us opportunities for unique, custom Martin acoustic guitars, like this sloped shoulder dreadnought here. Today, we've got this formidable D-28 with hand-selected woods from our team here at Russo Music for a masterful dreadnought at every turn.

This Martin Custom Expert acoustic starts out with a D 14-Fret dreadnought body made up by an Italian alpine spruce top and Wild Grain East Indian rosewood back and sides – the latter of which being hand-selected by our team. These two top-shelf tonewoods summon a robust, rich voice that fills a room with complexity and nuance. Part of the specialty of this hand-selected "D" is its sloped shoulder shape, hearkening to beloved Gibson acoustic guitars of generations past. Visually, this Custom Expert model blooms with European flamed maple body binding and a gloss Aging Toner top color for an aesthetic that shines on larger and smaller scales. Within its sloped shoulder body, the model's Italian alpine spruce is lined with hand-shaped scalloped spruce braces in a forward-shifted X-Brace pattern for bold bass response.

At this point, this Custom Expert "D" dreadnought brings on a select hardwood neck with dovetail neck joint assembly and Martin Modern Adhesive. These modern elements further this guitar's modern playability alongside the neck's satin finish with a Golden Era Modified Low Oval profile with a High Performance taper for an effortless feel in the palm. Matched by an oiled black ebony fingerboard with twenty Standard-sized frets and understated Mother of Pearl inlays, this neck and fingerboard combo is seamless.

To solidify this Custom Shop's whole experience, this sloped shoulder dreadnought features a number of high-quality hardware specifications. At the base of its scale length, a black ebony Golden Era Modern Belly bridge with a drop-in compensated bone saddle lands for a solid connection and transfer string-to-body. Toward the headstock, Grover nickel tuning machines line up with a bone nut for smooth stringing experiences. Visually, this Custom Expert dreadnought features up-close-and-personal flourishes like HD Zig Zag purfling along its Indian rosewood back make it impressive on every scale.

For fans of sloped shoulder dreadnoughts, this Martin Custom Shop Expert strikes so many chords for a totally masterful model.

  • Russo Music Martin Custom Shop Expert build
  • Martin D-14 Fret sloped shoulder "D" dreadnought body shape
  • Italian alpine spruce top with Martin Aging Toner gloss top color
  • Russo Music hand-selected two-piece premium Wild Grain East Indian rosewood back and sides
  • Martin Golden Era hand-shaped scalloped spruce braces in forward-shifted X-Brace pattern
  • Satin-finished neck with Martin Modern Adhesive and dovetail neck joint assembly
  • Golden Era Modified Low Oval neck profile with High Performance taper
  • Oiled black ebony fingerboard with twenty Standard frets and Mother of Pearl Style 28 inlays
  • Black ebony Golden Era Modern Belly bridge with drop-in compensated bone saddle
  • Grover nickel tuning machines and bone nut
  • European flamed maple top binding
  • HD Zig Zag back purfling with spruce center strip and Spanish cedar ribbons
  • Martin five-ply hardshell case included
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Color: Carbonized, Size: 3-piece
I love these cutting boards! It’s one of those items you don’t even know you need until you get them. Three perfect smaller sizes that can be used for so many different serving ideas. Great quality, great price. Definitely worth the buy!!!!
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BF J.V.
Dallas, US
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Economical and descent for price
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Pleased with price, style, color, and the 3 sizes of these carbonized bamboo cutting boards. Based on the reviews had the expectation of the "smell", which is the oil used to seal the cutting boards. (I suspect linseed oil was used based on the lingering smell, as the off-gasing process is longer. It's also cheaper than Tung oil and food grade mineral oil.) I work with wood and various oil sealants so the smell is a non-issue. As there are natural ways to speed that process up and minimize the smell. In addition, I will be using fractionated coconut oil or food grade mineral oil to seal cutting boards on a regularly basis (monthly or more frequent). As we live in a dry climate, hard water, and frequent use. Appreciate the other reviews which lead to our purchase and reasonable expectation of these cutting boards.
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briana canterino
Carnegie, US
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Good but wood smell
Color: Carbonized, Size: 3-piece
These came with a woodsy smell but the price was great for the quality
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Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2026
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Robert Kiehn
Omaha, US
★★★★★ 5
The Best Apologetics Book I've Ever Read!
This is one of the best apologetics books I've ever read!! Greg Koukl, President of Stand To Reason at str.org has written a great and informative book that is very thought provoking and often points out atheist contradictions and logical fallacies not to mention how lackluster and ignorant atheist thinking is. Here is a good review of it: [..] "Discerning Reader Editorial Review Reviewed 02/17/2009 by Tim Challies. Recommended. A valuable tool to assist Christians in sharing and defending the faith. I have a bit of an aversion to books on apologetics. I don't know exactly why this is, but it may be that many of them seem to teach methods of defending the faith that either manipulate or bludgeon. Somehow grace and apologetics do not seem to go together as they ought. So it was with perhaps just a bit of reluctance that I began reading Gregory Koukl's Tactics: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions. This is a book that promises to teach a new method, a respectful method, of defending the faith and of attempting to convince others of the truth of Christianity. This is not an apologetics 101 text, as in a book that will compare and contrast various apologetic methods; instead, it is a guide, a book that seeks to lead the reader into a new method of sharing his faith with others. "If you're like a lot of people who pick up a book like this, you would like to make a difference for the kingdom, but you are not sure how to begin. I want to give you a game plan, a strategy to get involved in a way you never thought you could, yet with a tremendous margin of safety." Here is what Koukl promises--he sets no small goal. "I am going to teach you how to navigate in conversations so that you stay in control--in a good way--even though your knowledge is limited. You may know nothing about answering challenges people raise against what you believe. You may even be a brand new Christian. It doesn't matter. I am going to introduce you to a handful of effective maneuvers--I call them tactics--that will help you stay in control." This tactical approach is a useful one, for it allows you to stay "in the driver's seat in conversations, so you can productively direct the discussion, exposing faulty thinking and suggesting more fruitful alternatives along the way." It is important to note that "tactics are not manipulative tricks or slice ruses. They are not clever ploys to embarrass other people and force them to submit to your point of view. They are not meant to belittle or humiliate those who disagree so you can gain notches in your spiritual belt." Instead, they are ways of guiding a conversation to expose poor reasoning and then use that as a bridge to the truth. Koukl begins by looking at three basics skills the Christian will need if he wishes to be an effective apologist. First, he must have knowledge, having a familiarity with the central message of the Bible; second, he must have knowledge that is tempered by wisdom that makes his message clear and persuasive; third, he must have the character of a Christian, embodying the virtues of the kingdom he serves. Then, over the course of four chapters, Koukl unveils his tactic. He calls it "The Columbo." The key to this tactic is to "go on the offensive in an inoffensive way by using carefully selected questions to productively advance the conversation." Never make a statement when a question will do the job. When you ask questions and listen carefully, you gather information that can be used to show a person where his thinking is faulty. Questions can be used to gather information, to reverse the burden of proof or to lead the conversation. Either way, the person asking the question is the person who leads the discussion. He sets a modest and realistic goal for his interactions with unbelievers. "My goal," he says, "is to find clever ways to exploit someone's bad thinking for the purpose of guiding her to truth, yet remaining gracious and charitable at the same time. My aim is to manage, not manipulate; to control, not coerce; to finesse, not fight. I want the same for you." The goal of this kind of apologetics, then, is not necessarily to win someone to Christ. That may be an ultimate goal or an ultimate hope, but the goal of an individual encounter is nothing more than, in Koukl's words, "putting a stone in someone's shoe." "I want to give him something worth thinking about, something he can't ignore because it continues to poke at him in a good way." In Part 2 of the book, Koukl offers guidance in finding flaws in the way people reason. He offers specific tactics to unveil poor reasoning and to turn it back against a person. He calls these things like Suicide, Sibling Rivalry, Taking the Roof Off. He offers advice on countering the human steamroller (you've tried to discuss issues with people like this) and the Rhodes scholar, the supposed expert. When I think of Christian apologetics, I tend to think of Evidence that Demands a Verdict or some of the classics of days gone by. But in this book Koukl offers a new approach and one that is well-suited to the times. He teaches the Christian to think well, to exemplify grace and to humbly lead a conversation to the truth. "We may spend hours helping someone carefully work through an issue without ever mentioning God, Jesus or the Bible. This does not mean we aren't advancing the kingdom. It is always a step in the right direction when he help others think more carefully. If nothing else, it gives them tools to assess the bigger questions that eventually come up." Apologetics is not always a discipline that is done with grace. But in this book Koukl shares tactics that will prove beneficial to any Christian. They may just revolutionize the way you interact with unbelievers. I highly recommend it." I give this book 5/5 stars and recommend it to both Christians and atheists alike as well as everyone in between.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2011
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Frances
Omaha, US
★★★★★ 5
Highly recommend
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I just finished reading tactics; it’s a book every Christian should consider adding to their reading list. So often we either avoid hard conversations about faith or we jump into them unprepared and emotional. This book does such a good job of equipping believers to slow down, ask thoughtful questions, and engage in meaningful dialogue with people who disagree with us. It’s not about “winning arguments,” it’s about learning how to think clearly, respond graciously, and represent Christ well. What I really appreciated is how grounded it is in biblical context. It reinforces the tools we already have as disciples (wisdom, discernment, gentleness, and truth) and shows us how to actually apply them in real conversations. It encourages confidence without arrogance and boldness without hostility. If you’ve ever felt unsure about how to defend your faith or navigate tough discussions, this book is incredibly practical and encouraging.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2026

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