Maton WA May Traditional Custom Shop 808 Guitar with Cutaway Torrefied European Spruce and Fiddleback Blackwood ID-11445

Maton WA May Custom Shop 808

As the head of Maton’s Custom Shop, Andy Allen has the ability to build a guitar that will produce the sound that the customer has ordered and wants to hear. The construction of a Custom Shop guitar is performed by a single, skilled luthier and this ensures every detail mirrors precisely the customer’s requirements.

It also ensures the look as well as the sound matches the buyer’s dream. Each operation is done by hand, the way Maton Guitars have been built since 1946, with no deadline. The process will take however long is required to meet the customer’s expectations. A masterpiece cannot be rushed!

Designed as a tribute to the Maton founder, Bill May and to bring the best of Maton's heritage and their guitar making skills together, the W.A. May is a guitar for the connoisseur.

This guitar features a gorgeous fiddleback Blackwood back and side set with a blackwood neck and AAA spruce face to produce a huge sounding dreadnought guitar. Add to that the unique Custom Shop voicing and craftsmanship and you have a guitar worthy of the name W.A. May.

The spruce on this guitar is dried in a special room which is heated to over 120 degrees celcius. All the oxygen is removed from the room to prevent the timber from catching fire. This allows all the moisture to be driven from the spruce creating a final product which has very similar properties to the top of a 60 year old guitar.

This W.A. May Custom Shop is equipped with the AP5 Pro Pickup system.

The AP5 Pro features Separate Microphone and Piezo input controls allow for blending of both microphone and piezo levels prior to sending the actively combined signals through to the tone circuits and master volume.

Highly selective cardioid microphone system allows for much greater microphone level before feedback in live environments. This newly upgraded 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.

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Specifications:

Shipping Weight: 20

Serial: 925

Top Wood: AAA Torrefied European Spruce

Back Wood: Fiddleback Blackwood

Nut Width: 1 47/64"

Scale: 25.5"

Inlays: MOP 4mm Dot Inlays

Rosette: Blackwood

Neck Wood: Blackwood

Fretboard: Ebony

Nut Material: Bone

Saddle Material: Bone

Bridge: Ebony

Bridge Pins: Ivory ABS with Black Dots

Tuners: Gold Grover Closed Back

Purfling: B/W/B/W/B

Body Binding: Satin Box

Fretboard Binding: None

Headstock Binding: None

Pickguard: None

Headstock Shape: Keyhole

Headstock Overlay: Figured Satin Box “AAA” Blackwood centrepiece

Headstock Inlay: MOP Maton Logo

Frets To Body: 14

Neck Profile: C Shape

Pickup(s): AP5 Pro

Case: Hardshell Case Included

Misc. 1: Gloss Finish