It’s got kind of a ‘60s Burns guitar look to it (a famous old London guitar brand), and I’m here for that. I now realize I’ve seen Italian guitars, Japanese guitars, obviously U.S. and U.K. guitar brands, German guitars … but I’d never known of any Australian brands, so thank you and thank you Eastwood for the introduction!
Thanks for the review. Just looking at the one or two pictures on the Eastwood site, this guitar didn't really interest me,, but getting a better look at it on your review - and hearing it - have changed my opinion. It looks and sounds great.
Just on that tone choke switch....the original Maton FB620 had the "SOUND BARRIER" 2 way lever-style selector, some hated it but I use it all the time because you can go from clean blues to full on distortion through a fuzz pedal with the throw of the switch.
Are we sure the original Maton design wasn't riffing on Burns guitars aesthetics? When I saw that guitar my first thought was it must be a new Eastwood Burns model.
I had one in the 60's and they were only average - nothing special unless you ran them through a Fender Concert amp with reverb or echo. New they were half the price of the American strat and about half a good. This sharkbight model shown here is a combination of the early and later Fyrbyrds by Maton. Early models had toggle switches that used to pop when you changed pickups. The model shown here has slide pickup switches that were on or off. If you were careless you could switch everything off and have no sound. You said the pickups were P90's but I believe they are single coils. The Bigsby tremolo was ok and seemed to hold tuning ok. The headstock, like the one on the Maton Ibis around the same era is kind of goofy looking, and probably the worst looking headstock ever manufactured. Tuners were open and only average. Playability of the guitar was fine and the sound was a bit thin, but ok for instrumentals. From memory, they came out in black, red or white. The mode switch was for rhythm, lead and something else and was just resistors bleeding the frequency. Not particularly exciting. I swapped mine in 1967 for a sunburst Gibson ES335 TDN with a factory fitted Bigsby tremolo plus gave $60 extra. The Fyrbyrd is selling for anything up to $2,500 if original and the ES335 from $20,000 to $45,000.
It’s got kind of a ‘60s Burns guitar look to it (a famous old London guitar brand), and I’m here for that. I now realize I’ve seen Italian guitars, Japanese guitars, obviously U.S. and U.K. guitar brands, German guitars … but I’d never known of any Australian brands, so thank you and thank you Eastwood for the introduction!
That playing in the mix, righteous!!
Thanks for the review. Just looking at the one or two pictures on the Eastwood site, this guitar didn't really interest me,, but getting a better look at it on your review - and hearing it - have changed my opinion. It looks and sounds great.
It sounds really amazing, especially with the overdriven tones! really clear and cuts through nicely
Sweet playing and rad guitar:)
I got this guitar. It kicks ass!
Mmm... The neck and bridge combination ( 5:41 ) is probably the nicest neck+bridge tone I've ever heard on a guitar!
Way cool jam! ✌️😌🎸
I'm going to buy this for all the glass beams songs!
@@vmadz2681 such a great band!
Just on that tone choke switch....the original Maton FB620 had the "SOUND BARRIER" 2 way lever-style selector, some hated it but I use it all the time because you can go from clean blues to full on distortion through a fuzz pedal with the throw of the switch.
What is the weight like?
Are we sure the original Maton design wasn't riffing on Burns guitars aesthetics? When I saw that guitar my first thought was it must be a new Eastwood Burns model.
my knowledge of maton history is pretty sparse, but the vibe is definitely similar!
Burns and Maton were lovers so maybe they talked about it?
Check the band Blass Beams, they use this guitar
nice! will do!
👌👍👍👍
I had one in the 60's and they were only average - nothing special unless you ran them through a Fender Concert amp with reverb or echo. New they were half the price of the American strat and about half a good. This sharkbight model shown here is a combination of the early and later Fyrbyrds by Maton. Early models had toggle switches that used to pop when you changed pickups. The model shown here has slide pickup switches that were on or off. If you were careless you could switch everything off and have no sound. You said the pickups were P90's but I believe they are single coils.
The Bigsby tremolo was ok and seemed to hold tuning ok. The headstock, like the one on the Maton Ibis around the same era is kind of goofy looking, and probably the worst looking headstock ever manufactured. Tuners were open and only average. Playability of the guitar was fine and the sound was a bit thin, but ok for instrumentals. From memory, they came out in black, red or white. The mode switch was for rhythm, lead and something else and was just resistors bleeding the frequency. Not particularly exciting. I swapped mine in 1967 for a sunburst Gibson ES335 TDN with a factory fitted Bigsby tremolo plus gave $60 extra. The Fyrbyrd is selling for anything up to $2,500 if original and the ES335 from $20,000 to $45,000.
Maton is pronounced ‘May-ton’
I love your review videos as well as your playing, but I think it's pronounced Mayton.
helpful! thanks!
The headstock looks like Sids dog on toy story
Lol
Can't believe Maton allowed China to remanufacture this
I've got a friend who works for them, and he said the people running the company couldn't care less about electric guitars.
Cool guitar, lose the bigsby tho...
(looks around) i’m with ya on that.
@@DemosInTheDark I hate reverse headstocks the most...