Maton Electric Owners

I thought I'd start a thread to see if there are other owners of these great guitars on TDPRI.

Here's mine:

http://files.me.com/mepstein/r9laco

It's currently my only non Strat, Tele-style, or Jazzmaster guitar . . . nice for when I don't want to play anything that sounds like a Fender. I swapped the stock pickups for SD Phat Cats. I hope to own another one someday -- maybe one of the bolt-on models.

Nice looking guitar. Is that the MS2000 DLX I see on their website?
Hows it play?

I think it's the standard model. The deluxes have a bound fretboard and block inlays, I believe. This one has a better top than the other standards that I've seen -- maybe it was an option.

It plays great. When I first had it set up, the action was actually too (with .11s), so I had to raise it a little. Other than that, it's great; string bending is really easy. I almost always overbend when I switch from my Teles or Jazzmasters to the Maton.

That is a beauty mepst! Congrats of a fine guitar.

I was fortunate to tour the Maton factory and play quite a few Matons while in Melbourne a while back. Spectacular guitars! I was really hoping to come home with an electric and an acoustic, but the local used, pawn shop thing didn't quite work out like it does in my area!

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.