Maton Josh Homme Signature BB1200 JH Sunburst. Photos are of the actual guitar for sale. An incredible guitar for one of rock and roll's coolest guitar players. The BB1200 JH (Josh Homme) is everything a great rock and roll guitar should be, stylish, no nonsense, with huge tone. This has to be up there with the. Style Works 2000 Universal Com Serial. Apr 12, 2010 A lot of people today are confused about what homeopathy is (and isn't), and this situation is not helped by the skeptics of homeopathy who go to. When was my Maton guitar built? It used to be printed on the label in the soundhole (e.g. 09/11 for Sep 2011) until 2015. We are currently working on an online application to track the serial numbers and background of guitars. Where can I find information about my Maton guitar?

The Maton MS500 the entry level Mastersound has an almost P90 looking single coil at the neck and a humbucker with a coil tap at the bridge with a rotary pickup selector marked COOL/MIDWAY/HIFI and looks very retro being first introduced in 1957. Was very interested in the Maton MS500 when the price of the AVRI 62 Telecaster went up steeply out of reach nearly got one in tobbacco sunburst with a black scratch plate but ended up falling for a Guild Starfire 4 instead. Maton are best known for their quality acoustics but the electric Mastersounds do have a loyal following and George Harrison played one. Click to expand.Ha another of Australia's great exports! Maton Guitars and the Wiggles!

Seriously though the basic MS 500 is a great guitar as an entry model. They do make really good Acoustics and their Jazz Electrics have a good name as do theirs Basses, the JB 4 from the early 80's was a top notch bass. Their electrics were always a little under cooked, some real weird and wacky designs in the 60's and others that were so close to copy write infringement.

Neville Kitchen, Bill May's son in law, who is one of the people in charge is a great guy, I have been to the factory maybe 5 times in the last 30 years to get some work done on a guitar, each time he greets me like I'm a top Musician, ( I'm just a hack weekend player). Great Company. Click to expand.I briefly had a guitar exactly like your EG 240 about 10 or 15 years ago. Notwithstanding the cutaway I had the idea I could turn it around and string it left handed but that didn't work out as well as I expected. The staggered polepieces were non-adjustable and consequently the string to string output balance was out of whack when strung left handed. I tried turning the pickups 180 degrees but then they wouldn't sit properly in the mounting holes because the top didn't have a symmetrical contour. So I gave up and sold it.

A shame really because it would have suited the old swing, jump blues and honky tonk music I was playing at that time and I never have found a decent lefty hollowbody at a time when I could afford it. I do still have a very old Maton Coolibah acoustic (totally different to the modern Coolibahs) with a serial number in the 300s. It was originally a righty that I had converted to lefty back in the 80s. Back then I wrote to Maton and they told me it was made in 1953. The top is a very strange wood with a wide flaring grain instead of the usual straight and narrow grain. Certainly nothing like spruce or cedar. I suspect it's an Australian wood of some sort.

It used to sound ok in warm weather and has an excellent neck, but really it's not a very good sounding guitar (lacking bass) and the intonation was never quite right due to a poor lefty conversion job. But it was my main axe for years while I was learning and I've always kept it for sentimental reasons. I just did a quick search of Google images and it's similar to this except mine has a cool black pickguard with a sailing ship design etched in. Some cool old Matons I've owned lots of early Maton guitars since 1968.probably more than fifty I thought I'd post some pics of some of the interesting ones My first Maton Fyrbyrd 1968 My buddy playing the same Fyrbyrd after I sold it to him Maton DC545 I bought in 1969 At my first gig 1972 with a white Maton Wedgetail Another Wedgetail identical to one I owned in the 70's (could be my old one - webpic) Here's another pic I found of my old Maton El Toro - baritone scale 32 frets (I know it's my old one 'cos of the wear marks & corrosion) Here's another webpic of a mint Fyrbyrd with tags. I'm pretty sure this is the one I briefly owned in the 90's, hard to tell.