Martinez Guitar, Student Series 20, Full size beginner (4/4 or 650mm size for adult), mahogany back/side, spruce top, cow bone nut / saddle

MCG-20 Student Series, select spruce top & mahogany back/side classic guitar

Nut - Saddle 650 mm

Neck : comfort thin C shape for beginners

Set up of strings : low action for easy playing

2012 New Price : SG$ 250 (inclusive of a padded guitar bag)

Look for no others, at this price point, this model can fight the sound volume / projection, sustain & crystal clear tones against other brand's solid spruce top classic guitar. All Martinez models are "created to play & enjoy the music" for our warm & high humidity climate. Every guitar's neck has an adjustable double-action steel truss-rod, enabling you to bring back the neck at it's original straight position. In warm & humid climate often you found classic guitar's neck with back-ward bending over the time, the woods tend to expand in a high moisture climate. Say good-bye for risking your guitar investment and start to focus more with your music & fun ! leave it to us to take care your guitar in the long run.

Why Martinez Guitars ?

The new era of classic guitar producers were initiated when a talented China luthier, Mr. Alex Wang (the founder of Martinez brand) who learnt from the American luthier, Mr. Kenny Hill who trained & influenced many aspect of Martinez team for best practices based on the USA hand-made classic guitar making. The third influential person in this joint venture is a German luthier, Mr. Wolfgang who fill in the role as the tone woods sourcing for the best of Martinez guitar sound.
In summary, the tradition of hand-made best practices from USA, the internationally trained China skills to assemble guitars in a modern guitar factory out of China and the sourcing capability for best tone woods out of Germany are the example of a globally integrated classic guitar brand, that is the Martinez Guitars ! This is another proof that the buzz word of “globally integrated company” were no longer dominated by the high-tech industry, it is happening in the classic guitar industry. The result is a new era classic guitar which inherited the “the hand-made guitar making” quality out of the modern guitars factory facility at the affordable price points. The consumers who buy these guitars will benefit the outcome of ‘globally integrated company’ concept.

The feels & looks of Martinez Guitars.
Many modern guitar factories benefits the precision mock-up & production using CAD/CAM (Computer Aided Design, Computer Aided Manufacturing) technology for it’s modern manufacturing. Beside of CAD/CAM affordability, the other key benefits are minimizing waste of wood materials due to human errors & increase productivity for consistent basic guitar parts manufacturing output. The CAD is the technology that easily help the Designer to digitally trace the curve X-Y-Z coordinates of thousand of scanning points over a guitar shape head to toe. A modern CAD software with a modern ultra fast & affordable CPU capable to scan every piece of guitar’s anatomy into a database. The CAM is the next downstream manufacturing process which translate those digital X-Y-Z coding into “executable PLC” (Programmable Logic Controller) which capture those coding and translate it into executable Logic which then be feeded into a wood crafting machinery. The wood machinery will then reshape identical “specific guitar neck shape” that resembles the original hand-made guitar which we are talking about. Do you got the point at this juncture ? in this modern era, not necessarily every single part of guitars must be hand sawn.
The Martinez guitar have C curve thin size neck, it is more friendly shape to students or petite adults players which I think (my own opinion based on comparing with many other USA makers) close to what Mr. Kenny Hill’s guitar neck style which his guitars are typically effortless to play.
Bright, sweet & precise trebles as the result of appropriately placed & shaped soundboard’s bracing and sourcing with the right tone woods material.

Product consistency & effortless to play
The nicely curved neck shape is one of key determining factor so the player feel comfortable when handling the neck fret-board. Equally important is the final set-up of the guitar so the overall left & right fingers feel more at home laying down their fingers either for practice or performing. When we hand-over these guitars to you, we play more roles to perform check & adjust the final set-up for everyone of you.

The overall sound balance & intonation across different strings & frets position
A technically all correct guitars as describe above still lack of an important aspect if the guitar lack of sound balance & intonation. An un-balanced guitars (either way of overly trebly or overwhelmingly bass or suppressing mid-tones ) can create negative emotional pressure to a season players as it is hard to express the output with the right music. In general, the Martinez inherited a balance tones across 6 strings from the student series up to the top all solid wood signature series. This is a subjective statement, off course we compare this student series with other similar student level at the same price points. The balance tone subject is somehow more related with the price or value / performance. Please note this is a broad statement and very subjective topics.