Interesting - playable neck area is longer on my baby Martin (roughly 12-3/4) than on my larger Larrivee parlors (roughly 12"), and the baby Martin has more frets. My full-size has been packed away for the winter, but I doubt if the neck is shorter the baby Martin - and it may be the same.

However, the full string length (nut to bridge on the low E string) is 23-1/4 on the baby Martin and 24-1/4 on the Larrivee parlor - and I doubt if my dreadnought-size Yamaha has shorter strings than the Larrivee parlor.

I have an LXME Little Martin, and the Martin site says it has a scale length of 23"; looking at their web site, the bigger D and J models seem to have scale lengths of 25.4. I have 14 frets, and they feel like standard spacing - I played a big Yamaha for a long time, until my shoulder announced that it was way too big for someone not quite five feet tall. But the length of the string over the body is less on the Little Martin than on a standard guitar.

Not sure which smaller Martin you have - the scale length on the backpacker is 24" (according to Martin), and other smaller models may be closer to the "big guys."

I'm very fond of my Little Martin - it has great sound and is highly portable and inexpensive enough that I can take risks with it I wouldn't with my Larrivees. But it's not fond of capos.

JudyB