Same here, Silver. I've owned a couple of Martins, one of which was a steel-string (00-18). And I've known many people who own various models of steel-string Martins, but I've never encountered one with an adjustable truss rod. Or one that needed an adjustable truss rod. The set-up and action of every Martin I've ever seen was about as perfect as one could want. Of course, most of these were from the Fifties, Sixties, and Seventies.

Is this something new?

Don Firth

P. S. I currently own a Spanish-made flamenco guitar, and a top-of-the-line Japanese made classic. That Japanese make some extraordinarily good classics.