What a beautiful instrument, masterfully demonstrated!

Great episode! Love your posts! Thank you 😊

EC has always been a personal guitar hero for me. At 10 years old I wasn’t a huge unplugged fan but with age I quickly learned acoustic guitar is pure and simple the real sound. So many use distortion and effects to mask the guitar and their lack of ability. Acoustics are the real thing and there is nowhere to hide. You either can make it sing or you can’t. This guitar is a holy grail instrument to me. EC will always be my favorite.

Lovely playing. I love these guitars. I'm lucky enough to own a 000-42EC. I saw them being built at the Martin factory, and decided I had to have one. The sustain is incredible.

I've always dreamed of owning either the Eric Clapton 000 or the Mayer OM. Unfortunately, both are well out of my price range. However, when looking at Martins at a big guitar shop in Sydney, I played an M-36 and was blown away. A great guitar and well worth checking out. Still expensive, but much more affordable than the signature models.

Lot´s of feeling in that playing. Makes it enjoying to listen to

Michael, I have #203 of the first 500 Martin 000-28 EC's made. I bought it new back then and I've had quite a few other guitars come and go since then, but I would never let it go. Love the guitar. Now almost 30 years old It's seen some miles and looks it with a few dings, scratches and a little checking on the finish, It's top has aged into a wonderful deep carmel/amber color and has that amazing dry woody tone older Martins are known for.

Great playing!! Great guitar!

Fantastic installment of your channel. I love the 000-42 and have one from 1943. It sounds incredible and plays amazingly well.

Man, I love your playing. So beautiful.

Always love watching and listening to you play. Thank You!

I bought a 000-28 as my first real guitar. Sold it after a few years seeking other thrills. I have regretted selling it ever since. I now know that it takes five years for a guitar to mature and its sound to blossom

A friend of mine has a 1929 000 45 ! WOW IS IT EVER NICE ! He left me play it a little I gave it back to him because it was worth almost as much as my house !

Gah! What a pleasure to hear you play these. This took me back. For sure.

Just love a 'traditional' looking guitar like this. Sunburts and bowl backs I know about. I owned an Ovation Balladeer but luckily it was stolen in 1986 😊

Fun! Thanks. Great playing, as always.

A great watch again, thank you.

I am looking forward to this next. Thank 😂! Great stuff!

I ordered a 00028EC in early 2000 when I started getting decent pay Chqs. I was always a 1990s Clapton fan and it was one my first expensive guitars I ordered brand new and It took 10 months to arrive like a baby. Well, 24 years later i am still hacking away on it. It spent a few years under the bed as I had D15 martin. But when you play an open A minor on the 00028, your heart just melts. It has aged well. And the warmth from it now is next level. The one thing about is when you leave the case open in the room over night the whole room is filled with that beautiful Rosewood smell in the morning. It just an amazing piece of martin history. Many Takamine's and Yamaha acoustics have some and gone, but the 000EC remains with me. I agree with you, that this unplugged era prob saved Acoustics' and the Eric Clapton 00028 saved Martin.

I have a 2002 model and I adore it. After watching the MTV unplugged Eric Clapton special as a kid I always swore I’d buy that guitar one day - and I did

How wonderful, Thank You for sharing.

What a beautiful guitar and as always, love your playing.

Michael, I am a huge fan of your music and this channel. I really like my like my late 90s OM28 VR. I typically tune down 1/2 or a full step. I get a deep, resonant full tone and easy bends when appropriate.

I played a 000-28-EC at Willcutt guitars in Lexington KY about 15 years ago. It was the best sounding guitar I had ever played at that point in my life. It was one of those moments when the hair on the back of my neck stood up because I was hearing something that really resonated deeply with something in my brain....and I'm a mediocre player at best, but that guitar made me sound better. If I could have afforded it I would have bought it.

Nicely done ...what a great instrument...

That 000 sounds good! Love 24.9 scale....especially tuned down 1/2 step. Bottom comes alive. Play like butter.

Lovely!

The EC is nothing more than the venerable 000-28, but with a V shaped neck and a little more spacing at the bridge, to ease fingerstyle. My dream guitar. I will buy it when I will celebrate something I'm waiting for since years

you play beautifully! I love.."if I could change the world", song by Eric Clapton but your beginning song Altho similar, was just so smooth, that I had to go pick up my EC guitar and try it ...didn't achieve it at first but I will be looking at this over and over to try to get that style. When I grow up I wanna play like you & EC of course, keep plucking ....❤🎶😎subscribed!

I've played one of those and it's so easy to play. Very nice!

Great video, thank you.

I'm a clumsy picker, mainly a bass player, but I just got myself a 000 12E to mess around on. If I could sound 1% as good as you do, I would definitely buy that EC model! In your hands, it had everything I love to hear from an acoustic. Great, and tasteful playing! Thank you for the inspiration.

There's just something about the american traditional acoustic look that really does it for me, Beautiful playing as always, very mellow sound 👌

You finally got THE standard fingerstyle acoustic in yer lap.(In my opinion.)

I love mine. Neck profile is not everyone’s cup of tea however it fits my hand perfectly.

My favorit guitar when I was young - and in your hands its just bravo

These days I often hear guitar reviewers slagging off Martin guitars preferring the sound of guitars from less mass produced luthiers. I have a 2006 HD-28 and I think it sounds fantastic, rich and balanced it certainly grabs my attention every time I play it.

Sweet! :-)

I bought my first Martin in 2017 and my choice ended being either a OMC28E or an EC model, I went with the OMC28E because of the longer scale = snappier tone for rhythm. It surprised me a bit. I spent 4 hours going through maybe 20 guitars and found what I needed. Today I would like to add a guitar with a little more volume and midrange, maybe a mahogany body. The OMC28E is very comfortable and make changing between electric and acoustic a breeze in a live setting.

Strings ? Hi Michael, great video….gotta love the 28EC. Have you found a set of strings that work best with your guitar ?

I very nearly bought one of these this morning. I drove an hour, after being told it was mint. Right away I saw a wierd twist in the neck and it look like the fretboard was lifting. They offered a discount but I passed.

Beautifully played! Where do you learn your fingerstyle playing?

One of the best sounding martins without a doubt . Sadly my guitar players favourite which was killed by TSA after a flight back from LA split from the neck heel right through the body ! Still wounded by that !

wow great blues lesson, what was the name of the guitar maker again?

I acquired a hand built guitar with very similar specs. No name no numbers anywhere, the finish looks factory however !?!? But the sound and sustain wow. Im very fortunate.

My 000-42 is the only guitar I have or need. It does everything I need it to and better than I deserve it to be.

000 vs OM is not just the scale length what makes them different. To my understanding the shorter scale comes also with a lighter bracing.

Probably the best sounding Martin I ever heard.I have been debating a choice of a Taylor 816CE and a 00042 but most auditions have sounded tinny but I love the sound of this .Hopefully its not just your touch making that difference.What gauge strings are you using? Best wishes.

How do you get such a sweet tone? Newbie here... are you playing without nails? I've been thinking of trying that.

What are strings make and gauge please? Sorry for asking ..

But you haven't lived until you try the Mertin HJ28,if you can find one.Be careful,the smile one of those can bring means you are in danger of your head falling off.........................................................

How it plays in dadgad?

or get an Eastman with Adi top instead. Adi is lovely.

Try a Yamaha!

I was recently offered (30 days ago) near mint 1996 EC guitar. $3500 US. I sold stuff for 30 days, offed stuff I have owned for years. Appointment made, showed up on time and the seller changed his mind. Me.. out 2 Martins and some other stuff. P issed auf. Bottom line, bring a trailer and cash.( an old car adage) Trust no one.