{"id":4258,"date":"2014-08-09T14:45:08","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T18:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onemanz.com\/guitar\/?p=4258"},"modified":"2015-01-13T09:08:47","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T14:08:47","slug":"martin-d-18-sycamore-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onemanz.com\/guitar\/martin-d-18-sycamore-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin D-18 Sycamore Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The torrefied Sitka spruce top and American Sycamore back and sides of the Martin D-18 Sycamore marks 50 years Martin guitars made on Sycamore Street.<\/h1>\n<h2>With all the features of the popular D-18 and very special additions.<\/h2>\n<p>A D-18 with a difference, the D-18 Sycamore comes in somewhere between maple and mahogany in looks and in tone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>&#8220;It sounds like a more complex maple, with thicker top notes, more overtones and complexity over all, like mahogany, but with a maple-like bass that shifts the focus into the mid-range, which has the same kind of defined top notes and high overtone ring as the trebles.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>I realize this description might make it seem more like a Jazz archtop than a dreadnought. It is not. It still has plenty of the complexity, resonance and sustain one looks for in a dreadnought. 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