Want to build a 1934 Martin 0-17. Can't find plans or molds.

[Matt Stauffer]

I really want to build an all mahogany 1934 style Martin 0-17 but can't find any plans, templates, or molds. From what I understand, this was their standard size guitar before they started adding all the "0's" and increasing the size. Did this size guitar just disappear, or did they rename it or what?

[Dave Bagwill]

My understanding is that the 0 size is still made; it was among the larger of the guitars Martin made when it first came out. The specs are online in a number of places, none of which I can remember at the moment.

[ken cierp]

The "0" is almost the same size as the "00" ----- .5 inch shorter .625 inch less at the lower bout. Keep in mind that those small guitar designs were enlarged so they would "sound better" -- food for thought.

[John Parchem]

The Martin O is still around. Sometimes it is called a parlor. I made a few of them. I personally like the sound. Some of the increase in size over the years was for more volume. But if you are sitting on a couch in a living room an O is a good guitar to play (size and sound wise).

Here is a 00, It has an arm bevel so the top is really more like the size of an 0. I braced it like a vintage Martin single 0

[Matt Stauffer]

The guitar in this video is pretty much what I'm after. Skip to 9:15 in the video to hear about the guitar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw3wkjVfbwE

[Tim Benware]

FWIW, these are the dimensions I have for this sized Martin guitar:

Total length: 38 3/8
Body length: 18 3/8
Width, Upper bout: 10
Width, lower bout: 13 1/2
Depth, Upper bout: 4 1/4
FB width, nut: 1 11/16 (but I have seen this listed as both 1 23/32 & 1 3/4)
FB width, 12th fret: 2 1/8
Sound hole: 3 5/8
String spacing: 2 5/16
Scale length: 24.84 (commonly refereed to as 24.9)

[Dave Bagwill]

Here's a useful page as well. The menu on the left has one entry 'body shapes' where you can choose up to 3 shapes to compare and it will show the outlines overlaid; gives a nice perspective.

http://martinrep.com/dimensions.html