Martin DX1RAE - Natural Body Body type: D-14 Fret Cutaway: Non-cutaway Top wood: Sitka Spruce Back & sides: East Indian rosewood HPL Bracing pattern: Non scalloped X-type Body finish: Hand-rubbed Clearcoat Orientation: Right handed Neck Neck shape: Modern low oval/PA taper Nut width: 1.687" (42.8mm) Fingerboard: Richlite FSC Certified Neck wood: Rust Birch Laminate Scale length: 25.4" Number of frets: 20 Neck finish: Hand-rubbed &lt;b The 6-string Martin DX1RAE acoustic-electric guitar features a D-14 platform, a dreadnought body designed to produce a powerful, rich sound that is perfect for live performance and in the studio Pairing the Sitka spruce top with the rosewood-pattern HPL back and sides, the DX1RAE guitar has a clear, balanced tone, with all the sustain and dynamic range you have come to expect from a Martin guitar The mortise-and-tenon neck joint ensures solid construction of the guitar, with optimal resonant tone, while eliminating drop-off in the finer dynamics The Martin guitar's laminate birch neck is a multilayered wood creation, bonding layers of wood under extremely high pressure