![]() ![]() This guitar has just come back from a full checkover, fret dress and service with Jim Cargill, and ready for another fifty-something years of playing! Neck set is great, and action and playability superb. ![]() Neck is laminated Mahogany and Maple, and the fretboard is either Rosewood or an Australian equivalent. This vintage electric archtop guitar has a Mahogany body, with a laminated Maple top. Serial number on this guitar - 759 - indicates a likely 1956 build. The Supreme was made both as an acoustic (F240) and electric (EG240) archtop, which was made between 19 (serial numbers 304 to 1691). We've had a few vintage Maton Supremes through here, but this was the oldest one yet (until I imported #656 from New Zealand in mid October 2009). Rare instruments like the first electric, the only Big Ben guitar in existence and an El Toro like nothing else, with comprehensive sections on the Fyrbyrd, the Mastersound. The book contains numerous custom, prototype and employee guitars, plus many serial number one examples, including the sensational GA.1 that pre-dates factory ledgers. ![]() This seems like a low number and it would be interesting to know how many were made. My next Maton, which I bought new and still own, is a mint condition 1964 DC 545 'crab claw' double cutaway. Came out quite well but the days of the Maton's status as a mint collectible were over.
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