Martin Guitar OM28E LRB
Steel-String Guitar with Pickup
- 2025 Model
- Style: OM
- Top: Spruce solid
- Back and sides: Solid rosewood
- Neck: selected hardwood
- Fingerboard: Ebony
- Abalone fingerboard inlays
- Antique white Herringbone binding
- Scale: 645 mm (25.4")
- Nut width: 44.5 mm (1.75")
- Bone nut
- 20 frets
- Pickup: LR Baggs Anthem
- Pickguard: Tortoise
- Ebony bridge with bone saddle
- Open nickel machine heads
- Strings: Martin Guitars Authentic Acoustic Lifespan 2.0 Guitar Strings Phosphor Bronze - Light .012 - .054 (Art. 469771)
- Colour: Natural
- Includes case
- Made in USA
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Available since February 2025
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Item number 606106
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Sales Unit 1 piece(s)
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Model OM
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Top Solid Spruce
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Back and Sides Solid Rosewood
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Cutaway No
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Fretboard Ebony
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Nut width in mm 44,50 mm
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Frets 20
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Pickups Yes
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Colour Natural
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Including Case Yes
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Incl. Gigbag No
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Design OM
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Back And Sides Solid Rosewood
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Case Yes
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The OM-28E, updated for 2025
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Martin's 2025 Standard Series refresh touches the entire catalogue, and the OM-28E emerges with substantive changes rather than just cosmetic ones. The Orchestra Model format – a 000 body with a longer 25.4" scale length – has been a constant in Martin's line since 1929, valued for the balance of warmth and projection that the scale length produces relative to a standard 000. The 2025 model retains East Indian rosewood back and sides with a solid Sitka spruce top in an Aging Toner gloss finish, and adds GE-scalloped X-bracing – the same bracing architecture used in the Modern Deluxe series – along with a redesigned neck profile, a thinner ebony fingerboard, and a refined bridge and neck heel. The L.R. Baggs Anthem pickup system is fitted as standard, and a Martin molded hardshell case with a plush, form-fitted interior is included.
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2025 updates in detail
The GE scalloped X-bracing replaces the standard forward-shifted scalloped bracing of the previous model here – the scalloping removes mass from the brace ends, allowing the top more freedom to vibrate and producing the warmer, more open response associated with pre-war Martin construction. The ebony fingerboard is marginally narrower than its predecessor and bevelled at the edges, reducing the sense of width under the fretting hand without altering the 44.5mm (1.75") nut width. The GE Modified Low Oval neck profile with High-Performance Taper – fuller toward the nut, tapering more gradually toward the body – suits players who find thinner modern profiles tiring over long sessions. The ebony bridge has rounded edges and a the neck heel has been refined, while the compensated bone saddle sits on a 16" radius. Nickel open-gear machine heads with butterbean-style buttons and abalone "diamonds and squares" fingerboard inlays complete the vintage-leaning aesthetic.
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For the discerning customer
The OM-28E is aimed at fingerstyle players, Folk pickers, and singer-songwriters who want Martin's tonal balance without the physical bulk of a dreadnought. The 25.4" scale produces slightly more string tension than a 000 at the same pitch, which translates to cleaner separation between bass and treble strings under a fingerpicking pattern – a genuine advantage for players whose technique relies on clarity rather than mass. The honest consideration is reach: The longer scale length means fractionally more stretching between frets, which matters for players with smaller hands. For those players, the standard 000 format in the Martin line is the natural alternative. Made in the USA, the OM-28E sits at a price point that reflects both the materials and the manufacturing standard. Rosewood back and sides remain a premium choice, and the 2025 updates earn their place.
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About Martin Guitar
Martin Guitar was founded in 1833 and is thus one of the most long-established brands in the history of the acoustic guitar. Several of Martin’s developments – including the dreadnought shape, robust X-bracing, the placement of the neck-to-body transition at the 14th fret (as opposed to the 12th fret as found on classical guitars), and the use of steel strings – have now become staples of modern guitar construction that countless other manufacturers have since adopted. To put it another way: Music today would sound very different had it not been for C.F. Martin & Co.
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Studio, stage, and the road
The OM-28E's tonal balance and the L.R. Baggs Anthem pickup system carry across studio and stage without adjustment. In a studio setting, the GE bracing and rosewood back and sides produce a full-frequency acoustic signal that records well with minimal EQ intervention. Live, the Anthem handles the transition to amplified sound more naturally than a purely piezo system, preserving the acoustic body's contribution to the signal. The OM-28E ships fitted with Martin Authentic Acoustic Lifespan 2.0 Phosphor Bronze Light strings (.012-.054).
In the spotlight
L.R. Baggs Anthem
The L.R. Baggs Anthem combines two signal sources: An undersaddle piezo pickup and a miniature microphone mounted inside the body. The piezo captures string vibration directly and provides a consistent, feedback-resistant signal; the internal microphone in turn captures the acoustic resonance of the body itself – the contribution that a purely piezo system leaves out. A blend control accessible through the soundhole balances the two sources, and a volume control and phase switch sit at the same location. The phase switch inverts the pickup signal to counter feedback when performing close to a monitor. The system runs on a single 9V battery, and the preamp activates when a cable is connected, so unplugging when not in use preserves battery life.
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