Martin has also started a custom shop for the musician who wants, say, his own name inlaid in mother-of-pearl into the fingerboard.

FORBES: Stringing them along

It was just as hard to play as the Hoyer, because again, the strings were too high off the fingerboard, and, because there was no truss rod, the neck was weak.

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