Entirely new for 2025 is the Standard Series Y25 Martin D-17. Built in Nazareth on the same production line as all of the company’s higher-end Standard Series models, the new Martin D-17 features a traditional dovetailed neck joint, sitka Golden Era scalloped bracing, a new GE-modified low oval neck carve with ebony fretboard and rolled edges, and an ebony 30’s belly bridge. Beyond that, the bone nut has an angled bottom, just like all vintage Martins, and the bridge features a compensate bone saddle, and bone bridge pins. The tuning machines are 30s style Grover G-98s with butterbean buttons, and the pickguard is tortoise celluloid with a bevelled edge. While the guitar looks similar to Martin’s D-15 from a few feet out, the differences between these two models are massive. Unbound South American mahogany body, mahogany neck, satin finish. 1-3/4” nut width, .820” 1st fret neck depth, 25.4” scale, 2-5/32” string spread at the saddle. The Y25 Martin D-17 is a warm and woody voiced Dreadnought that’s a lot like a D-18, but with a drier and slightly more articulate tone. It’s gorgeous and plays like a dream. With deluxe hardshell case Individual instruments may vary in appearance.