Maton’s Custom Shop provides you with the ultimate personal guitar experience. As the customer, you are invited to specify body shape, colour, decorative inlays and be involved in the selection of premium tone woods.

The Maton Custom Shop experience provides you with the opportunity to have a say in the dynamics of the desired sound speaking face-to-face with the craftsman who will build the guitar for you.

You can be guaranteed that Maton will build a guitar that you can truthfully say is unique, a one-off.

All timbers selected for Custom Shop guitars are hand picked from Maton’s vast stocks and then thoroughly checked for structural integrity. This ensures that only top quality materials find their way into a Custom Shop guitar. The timber’s visual appeal and tonal quality also form an important part of the selection process. All the chosen components are then individually ‘voiced’ to ensure they can produce maximum acoustic performance. This is done by ‘tap testing’ and flexing each piece to determine maximum strength and minimum weight, the recipe for great tone. It is a process that requires deep experience and construction knowledge and can only be done by an extremely skilled craftsman.

Maton’s Custom Shop luthier has the ability to build a guitar that will produce the sound that the customer has ordered and wants to hear. The construction of a Custom Shop guitar is performed by a single, skilled luthier and this ensures every detail mirrors precisely the customer’s requirements. It also ensures the look as well as the sound matches the buyer’s dream. Each operation is done by hand, the way Maton Guitars have been built since 1946, with no deadline. The process will take however long is required to meet the customer’s expectations. A masterpiece cannot be rushed!

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“Andy Allen [Maton’s Custom Shop luthier] selected some beautifully figured Queensland Maple for the back and sides. Also, a beautiful Sitka Spruce top. I’m elated to tell you that the finished product is a breathtaking treasure! Every time I play it, it sounds better and better. The guitar has a great voice, tone and sustain. It is a masterpiece... Thank you all very much for more than exceeding my expectations and building this quality instrument for me.”
Phillip Crockett, owner of Number 48, California USA.

“Proudly Australian and from Melbourne, I had always wanted a Maton acoustic guitar as they are the best Australian made guitars and are hand crafted in my home town. After speaking with Andy, I explained how I wanted him to build my dream acoustic guitar made by a Victorian in Victoria and from Victorian timbers. A few months later Andy had designed and built my dream acoustic guitar. Hand crafted from the finest tone woods available with a special focus on “AAA Select” Grade Fiddleback Blackwood from Victoria’s Otway Ranges. My #66 Maton Custom Shop acoustic guitar now travels with me on all my adventures throughout the world.”
Captain Rod Smith, Boeing 777 Emirates International Airlines.

“It has been my dream to own a custom 12 string Maton. It has the best action of any 12 string and is a complete joy and pleasure to play. When I had my first ‘real’play it bought tears to my eyes because I was overwhelmed by the gorgeous tone. I can not praise Andy enough for his fine work.”
Suz Dolci, Queensland Australia.