Matheas Custom Made Guitars
My guitars are individually handcrafted to sound beautiful and harmonically rich.
Traditional guitar design, tonal qualities, with the clarity and power of the orchestral classical instruments have influenced the direction of my tonal fingerprint.
The process of making, evaluating and re adjusting each component by hand to its ideal dimension ensures that each guitar created has a voice possesing exceptional sustain, balance clarity dynamic range and the sensitivity to a musicians touch.
I am assisted by utilising tonewoods that are critically selected and processed to obtain optimum charecteristics in strength, weight, stability and musical response.
Mastergrade air dried Sitka Spruce circa 1940s, 1970s German Spruce or Cedar for soundboards and CITES certified Rosewood from 1962 for back and sides are some of the special materials I have been utilising on my custom orders.
Each guitar is additionally set up to be very easy and even to play, to intonate accurately over the entire fretboards musical register, making each guitar a responsive instrument for all individual playing styles.
All the care and time is taken to do so with an artisan approach from the outset.
Feel free to listen to the audio samples below and I look forward to working with you in the future.
Sincerely
Jim Matheas
Matheas Guitar Models
- D Style Steel String Acoustic
- Jumbo Style Steel String Acoustic
- Concert Classical Guitar
- Custom Electric Guitar
Photo Gallery
Sound Samples
Matheas Jumbo Acoustic Guitar, Sitka Spruce/African Mahogany
Improvisation in G tuning by Matt Walker
Matheas Classical Guitar, Cedar/Rosewood
played by Sergio Ercole , Asturias(Leyenda) by Isaac Albeniz
Matheas D Style Acoustic Guitar, Sitka Spruce/Rosewood
Luthiers improvisation in E minor by Jim Matheas
Matheas D Style Acoustic Guitar, Sitka Spruce/Rosewood
played by Stephen Magnusson , Tea in the Sahara (The Police)
Additional Information
Individually handcrafted using construction methods, materials and tonal qualities of the American golden period (1930s and 40s) and the master Spanish artisan workshops featuring
- Aged Master grade tone woods like Rosewood, Spruce, Cedar, Mahogany and Ebony
- Accurate joinery using hot hide glue, on all strutting and bridge
- Light weight resonant and tuned sound box
- Precise hand fit dovetail joint or Spanish neck construction
- Thin hand rubbed nitrocellulose lacquer or French polished finish
Modern improvements included in my construction methods are
- Accurately set intonation over the entire fretboard
- Light 2 way titanium truss rod for fine settings
- Customised neck shape and profile
- High tolerance fretwork using hard temper fretwire
- Personalised setup to suit your individual playing style
- Reinforced Mahogany or Cedar neck and headstock
- Venetian Cutaway for upper register access
- Pinless Bridge for easy string installation
- Individually handcrafted rosette from natural veneers
Tonal characteristics
- Clear and balanced tone over the entire musical register
- Play evenly in tune over entire musical range
- Reverberant long sustain
- Crystal clear bass register
- Punchy Mids
- Harmonically rich with chimey top end
- Responsive and alive with wide dynamic range and tonal palette
MATHEAS GUITARS ABN 99437344298
66 Westgarth Street, Fitzroy | Melbourne, Victoria 3065 | Phone : +613 9415 9888
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