Maton EBG808 Nashville Series w/ Sitka Spruce & Australian Blackwood

Maton EBG808 Nashville Series Sitka Spruce and Australian Blackwood

The Maton EBG808 Nashville Series Sitka Spruce and Australian Blackwood is one stellar guitar.  With a sound-board of "AA" grade solid Sitka spruce, "A-Grade" solid Blackwood back and sides and one of the world's finest acoustic pickups in the AP5-PRO. With its dominant live tone, The EBG808 Nashville is the guitar of choice for Country Music great Keith Urban

The combination of a “AA” Sitka Spruce soundboard, streaky ebony fingerboard/bridge and blackwood, provides a tone that is rich, full, well balanced and with the glassy highs essential to the tone of this fantastic guitar. This Maton EBG 808 Nashville could be just the guitar your collection has been missing.

One of the most visually stunning furniture timbers available, Blackwood has also become an important tonewood. Most of the Blackwood comes from the Otway Ranges in Victoria, Australia. It often displays "fiddleback" character and "AAA" grade Blackwood can be intensely figured. It has a warm, full tone with a particularly pleasing mid frequency response and has become one of the most sought after timbers. It may be of interest to learn, that whenever a Maton employee gets to make their own guitar, they almost always choose Blackwood.

It is used in nearly every Maton either as a neck, back & sides, or internal component.

The AP5 Pro Pickup System includes a separate microphone and piezo pickup, both of which can be blended via their individual controls. The microphone is direct mounted to the preamp casing via an adjustable arm, which permits easy final tweaking of microphone position to suit the individual artists style.

Specifications

• Top Wood: "AA" Select" Grade Solid Sitka Spruce
• Back Wood: Blackwood
• Scale: 25.5"
• Nut Width: 1 47/64"
• Frets to Body: 14
• Vintage Amber Sunburst
• Serial Number: 20180
• Neck Wood: Select Queensland Maple
• Fretboard: Streaky Ebony
• Bridge: Streaky Ebony
• Bracing: Maton X Braced
• Headstock Shape: Blackwood Veneer Keyhole
• Headstock Overlay: Blackwood
• Headstock Inlay: Maton Logo
• Tuners: Gold Grover Rotomatic
• Inlays: 6mm Pearl Dots
• Rosette: Herringbone
• Purfling: Herringbone
• Body Binding: Ivory ABS
• Pickguard: Tortoise shell
• Nut Material: Bone
• Saddle Material: Bone
• Bridge Pins: Ivory ABS
• Neck Profile: C Shape
• Body Depth: 4 59/64"
• Pickup(s): AP5-Pro pickup system
• Case: Maton Hardshell Case
• List Price: $2,699.99