Martin Vintage Series Eric Clapton Signature 000-28EC (1996 - 2016)

About the Martin Vintage Series Eric Clapton Signature 000-28EC (1996 - 2016)

The 000-28EC recreates the specification of the 1930s Martin 000-28 that Eric Clapton famously played during his 1992 MTV Unplugged performance, an appearance widely credited with renewing broad interest in vintage-style Martin flat-tops. The body pairs East Indian rosewood back and sides with a solid spruce top in the 000 (Auditorium) size, scalloped X-braced, with a Modern Belly bridge using a drop-in ebony saddle and 2 1/4-inch string spacing.

The mahogany neck uses a Modified V profile at a 1 3/4-inch nut width and 24.9-inch scale, with an ebony fingerboard, 20 frets and diamond-and-square inlays matching the original guitar's look. Vintage-inspired appointments include fine herringbone top purfling and rosette, zig-zag back purfling, a tortoise-pattern pickguard with grained ivoroid binding, and nickel open-gear tuners with butterbean-style buttons - details chosen to match the pre-war original as closely as a modern signature model allows.

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Sound character of the Martin Vintage Series Eric Clapton Signature 000-28EC (1996 - 2016)

The 000-28EC pairs a spruce top with rosewood back and sides for a bright, overtone-complex tone, and Martin's scalloped top bracing on this model increases top flexibility for a more resonant, dynamically responsive voice than a standard-braced 000-28 - well suited to the fingerstyle playing it was designed around.

Technical data for the Martin Vintage Series Eric Clapton Signature 000-28EC (1996 - 2016)

The history of the Martin Vintage Series Eric Clapton Signature 000-28EC (1996 - 2016)

Clapton's 1992 MTV Unplugged set, played on his own vintage pre-war Martin 000-28, became one of the most influential acoustic performances of the era and drove significant renewed interest in Martin's vintage specifications. Martin introduced the 000-28EC signature model in 1996 to offer players a faithful recreation of that guitar's tone and appointments, and the model remained in the catalog for two decades before being updated in later Clapton signature releases.