The brand-new Martin Super HD-28 takes one of the most iconic acoustic guitar recipes ever created and turns up the volume. New for 2026, the Super HD-28 brings Martin's enormous Super D body into the Standard Series for the first time, combining a solid spruce top with solid East Indian rosewood back and sides, forward-shifted Golden Era scalloped bracing, and classic Style 28 appointments. The result is a guitar with approximately 20% more internal air volume than a standard Dreadnought, giving it enormous projection, deeper bass, and an impressive amount of headroom. This is a brand-new Standard Series Martin that includes a hardshell case and Martin's Limited Lifetime Warranty.
The neck is built around Martin's Golden Era Modified Low Oval profile with the High-Performance Taper, giving the Super HD-28 a comfortable, modern feel despite its decidedly old-school tonal goals. The 1 3/4" nut width provides plenty of room for fingerstyle playing and big chord shapes, while the 25.4" scale length delivers the familiar Martin dreadnought feel and string tension. An ebony fingerboard, 20 Plek'd frets, and beautiful long Diamond & Square abalone inlays round out the neck. The neck is satin-finished, which makes it feel especially smooth in the hand, and the dovetail neck joint keeps the construction firmly rooted in traditional Martin territory.
The body is where things get seriously interesting. Martin's Super D shape retains the familiar dreadnought silhouette but increases the internal air volume by roughly 20%, allowing more air to move inside the guitar and giving the top considerably more room to work. The solid spruce top is paired with solid East Indian rosewood back and sides, producing the deep bass, rich overtones, complexity, and sustain that players love about a great HD-28. Underneath it all is forward-shifted Golden Era scalloped X-bracing, giving the Super HD-28 a wonderfully responsive feel and helping it produce a huge sound without requiring you to beat on the thing. Visually, Martin went straight for classic Style 28: bold herringbone top trim, antique white binding, faux tortoise pickguard, Aging Toner on the spruce top, and the unmistakable Style 28 multi-stripe rosette.
There are no electronics here, and we think that's exactly right for a guitar like this. The Super HD-28 is all about acoustic horsepower. The Golden Era Modern Belly ebony bridge, bone saddle, and bone bridge pins provide a traditional foundation, while the nickel open-gear tuners with butterbean buttons keep the hardware appropriately vintage-inspired. Put a pick on this thing, and the combination of the oversized Super D body, rosewood, spruce, and forward-shifted bracing really starts to make sense—the guitar has tremendous projection and sustain, with a huge bottom end and the complex overtones that make a great rosewood Martin so addictive.
If you love the HD-28 but find yourself wishing it had just a little—or a LOT—more of everything, the Super HD-28 deserves your attention. Come play this monster and experience what happens when Martin takes an already legendary formula and gives it more room to breathe.
