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Trying to determine the year of your Martin Guitar? Take a moment and review our list of the serial numbers for the last 183 years. Prior to serial numbers, the different instruments were identified by the Martin brand which was stamped into the back of the headstock. Find maton guitars serial numbers ads. Buy and sell almost anything on Gumtree classifieds.

This one has a buy it now of $1,500 which I’ll be interested to see if it gets. The faceplate design is beautifully understated and pure classic Maton. See that they’ve called it part of the ‘Mastersound Series’ which is a nice tie in to their guitars.

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All Levin’s other instruments were identified by a model number only. After 1947 all models were given a name and a model number. The model number was inconsistently stamped as a prefix or suffix to the serial number. If the model was available in both natural and sunburst finish, the letter “N” would follow to denote a natural finish instrument. The use of a prefix or suffix was largely discontinued in 1955 when the most of the lines were redesigned again.

I met Phil Manning at the Music Warehouse, Tanunda a few years back and showed him the guitarhe was quite impressed with the good condtion it was in. I’ve had my JB6 LH (#245, 1984?) for 25 years and it’s still my favourite axe. Nothing else out there quite like it for playability and lightness. I regret putting the Kahler tremolo system into it in the 1980s but put it down to being a young and stupid punker as it didn’t need it, although having the coil tap relocated was a good thing in hindsight I’m seriously thinking of giving it a body refinish and hardware refresh at the Maton custom shop in the future. One of those dream projects If you’re ever lucky enough to find one don’t hesitate to shell out for it.

When both numbers are present on a higher grade model, remember that the FON was assigned at the beginning of the production run, while the serial number was recorded later (before shipping). The serial number would properly indicate the actual date of the guitar.

Watch this space. Next up on eBay is an absolutely, seriously cool Alver Cowboy guitar.

My Tym T-Byrd Bass is a good example of an old Maton design being updated. Hi guitarnerd. Thanks for the reply. As it was so long ago and was my first electric guitar, I probably didn’t notice and/or remember some of the Fyrbyrd’s rough edges and was likely comparing it to Jasons and Suzukis.

When was my Maton guitar built? It used to be printed on the label in the soundhole (e.g.

Hopefully, if a reissue ever happens, the bugs will be removed to keep the instrument in line with Maton’s present high standards. The other thing I was talking about was the seeming rarity of Fyrbyrds in NSW. As I mentioned, though they seemed common in the 60s, I haven’t seen one in the flesh since I traded in mine in 1970 (or 71). Hi Tony, What a fantastic site you have! I have been reading it for a while, really very nice information and pictures. How nice to read about other vintage Maton lovers.

Unfortunately, even at their lowest adjustment, the pickups are still too close to the strings, so I removed the screws in the dishes completely, and since the pickups fit into the dishes tightly, I removed the long screws too. This gave me an extra 1.5mm (thickness of the screw heads) to lower the pickups and action, making it more playable still. When I got it, the middle pickup quickly stopped working, but luckily it was due to the very old braided wiring coming apart. The frets also were in a pretty rough condition and absolutely destroyed the first set of strings I put on there, plus there was a bit of buzzing on the higher notes. I had Paul Dalby at the Music Swop Shop do a fret dress on it which made it far more pleasurable to play instantly.

The fourth Fyrbyrd ever made. Story and photos by Michael S. Here’s my Fyrbyrd been resprayed black and serial 104, so the fourth one made ever. It came with its original case and original (though probably not Maton affiliated) strap. Still has the original truss rod cover badge too. One tuner head was replaced with a square styled one, so (but thanks to the story on your Fyrbyrd) I carved it down to a matching oval shape with sandpaper. It has been refinished in a black polyurethane paint which has a very nice gloss to it, but it was originally a Fyre Red colour.

For a while in Australia there was no distributor for Fender guitars, which Maton obliged by producing their own Australian versions. The following is their take on the Fender Telecaster. As soon as Fenders started being sold in Australia, Maton stopped making their copies as Bill May remarked “Fender do a good enough job making Fenders”. I have also played a modern Maton Stratocaster that was custom made for Quan from Regurgitator.

And that my friend would be your own fault for not spending the time to research before selling. I could be wrong but be warned that you can destroy a guitars value by over stating them just as much as understating their value. At the same time I have never seen a post on here actually offering a person a price for something as I think that would go against the forums intentions.

What Year Was My Martin Guitar Built? Serial Numbers Used To Date Martin Guitars First locate the Serial number on your Martin® guitar.

In regard's to F10 MATON 1969 A nylon string guitar is not a great seller,id have to say i play Guitar and am a Collector of Maton Guitar's,and that would be one model would not look at buying,Now when you say really good condition what do you really mean by that? I am a musician of piano, keyboard and wind instrument ilk, but know NOWT about String Instruments. I have a 1969 Maton F10, and wish to sell it to collectors/muso's, as I cannot play it, and would rather an instrument live (toucha my flute and I breaka your hands!) than lie idle with me. Owned by my ex wifes father, who was a guitar teacher.

The original owner had a friend who had a Sapphire with a fixed tail-piece, which he thought had better sustain, so he had professionally fitted a fixed tail piece. Later, he had it converted back to original, with the result that the 2 gold-finished tailpiece studs are visible under the original M trapeze tail-piece. The sun-burned finish has some age-related, visible up close, crazing on the front. The guitar is without the original case.

3, 1985, in Nashville and was the 1st instrument stamped that day. However, it has come to light recently that the Kalamazoo plant did not directly switch over to the “new” 8 digit serialization method in 1977.

Unlike the above Fyrbyrd, Maton also produced a bass version. The following example has a pearloid scratchplate which I first thought was added by the owner, but I’ve since seen a few early Matons which have this feature. And the pearloid bridge cover just looks cool.

1908-1923 Approximate #s. Factory Order Numbers for the years 1935-1941 usually consisted of the batch number, a letter for the year and the instrument number. Examples are as follows: • 722 A 23 • 465 D 58 • 863 E 02 Code Letter and Year • A 1935 • B 1936 • C 1937 • D 1938 • E 1939 • F 1940 • G 1941 Code Letter Factory Order Numbers were discontinued after 1941, and any instruments made during or right after World War II do not bear an FON codes. In 1949, a four digit FON was used, but not in conjunction with any code letter indicating the year. From 1952-1961, the FON scheme followed the pattern of a letter, the batch number and an instrument ranking number (when the guitar was built in the run of 40). The FON is the only identification number on Gibson’s lower grade models (like the ES-125, ES-140, J-160E, etc.) which do not feature a paper label.

The numbers are usually stamped or written on the instrument’s back and seen through the lower F hole or round soundhole, or maybe impressed on the back of the headstock. 1908-1923 Approximate #s. Factory Order Numbers for the years 1935-1941 usually consisted of the batch number, a letter for the year and the instrument number. Examples are as follows: • 722 A 23 • 465 D 58 • 863 E 02 Code Letter and Year • A 1935 • B 1936 • C 1937 • D 1938 • E 1939 • F 1940 • G 1941 Code Letter Factory Order Numbers were discontinued after 1941, and any instruments made during or right after World War II do not bear an FON codes.

If I would have bought it in Australia, just the shipping costs would probably have been as much as what I paid now, so I feel quite happy. Well, to be honest, it is a very modest home amp. Only 13 Watt, so it will never see a live gig, not even a band rehearsal. It would not be able to compete with a real drummer. But it is in full working order, very quiet and a warm valve sound, so I am happy to find it. I mean, who would ever expect an amp like this to show up in Holland? I only bought it for my collection, not for serious use.

When it was refinished there was a grey undercoat added, but the original red is still visible in a few places. As you can see, the black refin is quite old itself as it has also undergone some very nice crazing. Unfortunately the ‘Fyrbyrd’ sticker was lost as was the Maton ‘M’ on the headstock (though I have no idea why, as I believe that all Fyrbyrds had black headstock faces, so I dont see why they needed to refin it in black)? It’s hard to see, but the serial number is still visible, and this is number 104.

It’s not uncommon for those stickers to fall off where they can sometimes be found loose inside the instruments. 1972-1974 6 digits printed on a small brown paper label glued to the label. 1974-1979 Six digits printed on the label.

Changes included cutaways on archtops, natural finish on some f-hole guitars and mandolins, and a line of nylon string acoustics. Up to that point, only the top 3 archtop guitar models (The De-Luxe, Solist and Royal), some early lutes and some fancier banjo models had names.

And of course how I got it. I was lucky enough to find this guy on the New Zealand website a few months ago, and luckier still that it had been refinished, as had it been all original, I probably could not have afforded it. Personally, I reckon the black is dead mean, and with only two pickups, its the perfect gigging guitar.

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With a major fret dress and some work they would be ok. My friend Dan’s Fyrbyrd played like a 50’s Fender after Tym’s had set it up. I’ve grown up playing Gibson’s, so I’m pretty fussy with my frets. Also, the old 60’s Maton single coil pickups are an acquired taste. They aren’t exactly the most toneful pickups out there. They’re pretty scratchy sounding through most distorted amps. They might’ve been fine in the 60’s when everyone was playing with a clean sound and some reverb but put one of these through an overdriven Marshall and they sound very ‘Jon Spencer And The Blues Explosion’.

The beautiful Maton in the above photo was actually made in the 1962 and was called the Goldline 750. Only 210 were made between 1962 and 1963, and the design later evolved into the Maton Fyrbyrd. The design is an elegant mix of an SG with a touch of Paul Bigsby’s guitars in there as well.

Until the late 1930's the Australian guitar manufacturing industry was virtually non existent and good quality guitars were hard to find. The best guitars, it was well understood, came from the U.S.A. Bill May, a Melbourne born jazz musician, woodwork teacher, and luthier, decided to change all that. Maton are Australia's leading manufacturer of Acoustic and Acoustic / Electric Guitars. We pride ourselves on making the best guitars possible at a price musicians can afford!

1974-1979 Six digits printed on the label. The Levin factory closed in 1979.

The FON may indicate the year, batch number, and the ranking (order of production within the batch of 40). This system is useful in helping to date and authenticate instruments. There are three separate groupings of numbers that have been identified and are used for their accuracy. The numbers are usually stamped or written on the instrument’s back and seen through the lower F hole or round soundhole, or maybe impressed on the back of the headstock. Isunshare password reset.

At least they’ve reissued the JB4 bass, I guess. Tony, I have not played the Arthouse since probably 1999.I remember when trams went past at full tilt one of my pedals used to switch on and off from the power surge-same at the Public bar back then aswell. The footswitch is indeed painted wood-classic maton stuff. I know of one more of these amps which resides in Warnambool I think but I have never actually seen another. I love that little Maton amp-again Rola speakers like the V606. These speakers they remind me of early Vox amps as far as sound goes.

Some of this old Maton talk is bringing up memories from a long time back. As a young fella in Melbourne, I bought a Maton electric in 1970 from Allans Music. It had a kind of ES335 body shape, was hollow but no F-holes, and two pickups with just a tone and volume control and selector switch. I traded it for white Wedgetail in the very early ’70s- it had a bolt-on neck and was nice to play I remember. Most of the guys I was jamming with back then had a Maton electric of some sort. ElToros, Fyrebyrds etc.

The use of a prefix or suffix was largely discontinued in 1955 when the most of the lines were redesigned again. Some prefix and suffix designations remained on old models until they were all discontinued by 1958.

I have read through all the posts here and what is painfully obvious is just how much some serious collectors want to rip off unsuspecting owners of old Matons, BEWARE! These guys know exactly how much these guitars are worth but instead you get the little snide comments of 'I'd be interested in buying it' or 'How much do you want for it?' Which frankly disgusts me. IF you have an old Maton and you seriously want to know it's value then have it valued by an accredited valuer.Otherwise you are going to fall prey to these rip off artists 'posing' as someone willing to 'help' you here. And as for the people actually doing this to unsuspecting people looking for some help.You should be ashamed of yourself and to the moderator of this thread.UNLESS the person replying to the thread is actually answering the question posed, then the reply should not be allowed and these people should be protected from these sharks! Get your act together!!!

There must be a lot of old Matons hiding under beds or or in the garage forgotten about? G’day Jacob, I would greatly appreciate an accurate tracing of the L202 headstock, I butchered mine many years ago and want to restore it back to something like it’s former glory. Mine would have been purchased by it’s original owner new around 1970 or there abouts I’m having some replica pickups made by Tony from Village Pickups in Melbourne, Maton can’t help with this unfortunately. Anyone who can help please email it to dave dot king 1 at optusnet dot com dot au ( all the usual address replacements apply ).

Maton’s most well known electric is the modern Mastersound, most famously played by Josh Hommes from QOTSA. This design is based on the original Maton Mastersound from the 60′s, which was a very different beast to todays version.

This amp was part of a series that came in a few different formats. Apart from that one I saw at the Art House show, I haven’t seen another. I assume, as with most things Maton they’re pretty rare. With the boutique amp market going crazy at the moment, it’s wonder Maton hasn’t released their own new/old 40 watt tube 2×12 combo tone machine. With the history and background (and respect) their amps have, players would snap them up for sure. I mean how many acoustics does Maton need to sell? With a history like theirs it would be so fun (for both them & us) to do small low run reissues here and there.

If you are interested, I can mail you some pictures of these guitars. Greetings from The Netherlands! How is my old baby going! My current list that I will be taking pics of and showing to you all once two of them come back from being restored!

G’day, stumbled ‘pon yr site a few days ago & enjoying it immensely.i saw yr apollo at tym’s a few weeks ago b4 it had been finished,action was pretty high,a friend of mine has a single p’up version which i’ve been trying to buy off him for years(he doesn’t play geeetah just collects everything),he lent it to me for a while years ago and i fell deeply in love with it. I’ve got: 1970 f11 (steel string version of f10 with different head stock) 1986 cw80 1994 ebg808cl ——- fyrbyrd (sharkbite) 1971(?)wedgtail 1964(5?)MS1100. Soooo stumbled across this today as i was trying to find info on my newest guitar that i picked up today. A Maton F-10 its a bit banged up and its missing the saddle piece in the bridge, the finished has gone all crazed and a few scratches over it, small chip out of the varnish and needs some strings BUT not bad for something that only cost me $1!!!! And im not kidding on that it has so much character and im not really interested in the resale value on it. I cant wait to put some new strings and that piece on it and see how it sounds, its still so solid and strong for its age.

Some prefix and suffix designations remained on old models until they were all discontinued by 1958. In the redesigned lines of 1955, all models were identified by model number only.

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Very cool info & really enjoyed your site so cheers. My best mate PB is having babies so he lent me his pride & joy Fyrbyrd 620 red similar to the above picture about a year ago and it has seriously changed my life. I’ve never had such a beast of sound come through with just this awesome guitar and an average Peavey Rage amp, truly mind blowing.

———————————————————————————————————— I had a nice surprise at band praccy tonight. Some other band had left their gear there (the room is shared by a few bands) and there was a nice Maton JB-6 there, so I snapped some shots on my phone for this article. The JB-6 was a typical 70′s design, sort of a cross between an Alembic and Ibanez Musician but plainer looking. The neck felt awesome, really similar to the Maton Phil Manning Standard. Chunky but really smooth.