Specifications Scale Length: 25-1/2” Nut Width: 1-3/4” Lower Bout: 14-3/8” Upper Bout: 11-1/8” Waist: 9 ” Depth: 4” Top Wood: Sitka Spruce Body Woods: Queensland Maple Fingerboard: Rosewood Binding: Ivory Inlays: 12th fret “CGP” Strings: Steel Tuners: Grover Chrome Deluxe Overall:  39-3/4”

Bill May founded Maton in 1946.

The Maton name is a derivative of the words “May” and “Tone”.

Until the mid 1930s an Australian guitar manufacturing industry was virtually nonexistent. Good quality guitars were hard to find and at this time the best guitars came from the U.S.A.

Bill May, a Melbourne-born jazz musician, woodwork teacher and luthier decided to change all that. During the early 1940s Bill established a custom guitar manufacturing and repair business known as “Maton Stringed Instruments and Repairs”. In March 1946 Bill May and his brother Reg launched “Maton Musical Instruments Company”, opening Australia’s first major guitar making facility in Canterbury, Melbourne, in 1949. Maton now has a new modern facility in the inner Melbourne suburb of Box Hill. Maton is still a 100% family owned Australian company, operated by Linda and Neville Kitchen (Bill May’s daughter and son in law).

Having established Maton as Australia’s longest running and most successful guitar manufacturer, and pioneering the use of many Australian wood species in guitar construction, Bill May is regarded as the founding father of Australian luthiers . Bill May was recently recognised at the Australian Music Association Awards where he was posthumously awarded their highest honour and inducted into the hall of fame.