BluesKing777 Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 A strange choice, they will all say! So an explanation....a friend turned up last year with a new dread model Maton with nice Blackwood back and sides and a Sitka top and it sounded great, acoustic AND electrified - it has the new pickup setup with undersaddle and mic and barn door controls. Myself - not interested in a dread version, and I didn't like the older model Matons that were fairly overbuilt, but I was reading somewhere how the Maton SRS808 has scalloped foward shifted braced Cedar top and Blackwood b/s and that happens to be my latest preferred top and my Lowden S35 has Cedar top and figured Tasmanian Blackwood b/s and I love this combo. So trundled down to the very close music shop that sells them - they sell Matons everywhere around here - they are made here - and had the cutaway (Solid Road Series) SRS808c and non cutaway SRS808 to try! Couldn't tell the difference in either but I kind of liked the non cutaway look and it was $100 cheaper..... Hey, they are stunning! And the pickup is great - dual source with mic. Potential road warriors, let me tell you. [biggrin] Photos to come but here is one from an English shop to look at: https://www.wunjoguitars.com/shop/acoustic-guitars/maton-srs-808 BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blindboygrunt Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 Any date set for you opening your guitar shop? Look forward to hearing the new fella Hey , is it mayton, matone or matton? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-minor7 Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 Hey , is it mayton, matone or matton? If I'm not raving around in a field of burning hemp, it's Mayton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blindboygrunt Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 If I'm not raving around in a field of burning hemp, it's Mayton. 😂 Well chances are good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted October 3, 2017 Author Share Posted October 3, 2017 Any date set for you opening your guitar shop? Look forward to hearing the new fella Hey , is it mayton, matone or matton? Good way to ruin the fun, selling the things for a living! Now is a plummy English accent, it would be May-ton. But in a Strine, or even a Cockney, well it can be - Mate - un or even Mate'en..... BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blindboygrunt Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 Good way to ruin the fun, selling the things for a living! Now is a plummy English accent, it would be May-ton. But in a Strine, or even a Cockney, well it can be - Mate - un or even Mate'en..... BluesKing777. Where I’m from it’ll be mate ‘n’ Lowden owners will call them maytones Last thing I expected when I opened your thread BK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted October 3, 2017 Author Share Posted October 3, 2017 Where I’m from it’ll be mate ‘n’ Lowden owners will call them maytones Last thing I expected when I opened your thread BK If you had said I would own a Maton a year ago, I would have given you the raspberry. But I only played a few older dreads with bad action and I have no idea what woods they were made with then. The Ebony/Italian Cargill lead me to looking at other woods, and I grabbed the Lowden Blackwood/Cedar... But this guitar is cool, pity I didn't know they made them this good years ago...pickup system seems great. I will play it in for a few weeks then get a nice setup. Cedar plays in quick, we are told. Oh, this would be a bare fingerpicker's guitar, not a dread lovers strummer at all, thought I better warn. BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted October 3, 2017 Author Share Posted October 3, 2017 Some photos hot off the presses... BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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