Maton CW80

All solid wood dreadnaught guitar. AA Sitka spruce solid top and solid Queeensland maple back and sides. Grover tuners, blackwood featured "keyhole" headstock. Light finish to allow wood to breathe. Purchased non-pickup model to achieve the best possible acoustic sound.

For strumming and/or fingerpicking, this guitar is an absolute gem! Quite a bright sound but each string is evenly balanced . The bottom end is superb: it can get a real thump but no muddiness. The top end gives a beautiful musical chime. Clarity is fantastic. A guitar that inspires you to keep playing. Easily the equal of a good Martin , Gibson or Taylor but with its own character. It sounds like a professional guitar.

Action and build quality are excellent. Fretboard well finished, woods well matched and tuners work very smoothly. Top notch quality for this very simple guitar.

Put together well so no reason to suspect any durability problems even when gigging. Many Aussie pro guitarists use the model below this (EM325)for touring and it lasts well. No reason the CW80 should be any different.

Dealt with Maton in the past and they are quite helpful.

As guitarists, you get inspired by things you hear on recordings: you want to play and sound like them. The CW80 is a professional sounding guitar that that provides a beautiful acoustic sound: like the best you hear the pros sound in recordings. A great guitar at a fraction the cost of a solid US made Gibson or Taylor and sounds as good.

Made in Australia in yer 2000.With 21 frets , Solid AA Spruce top and solid silkwood At side and behind.

I play jazz , Blues and rock music and it suit me perfectly.it produce a bright and soild sound in plucking and strumming.

The guitar has a good natural looking with the AA grade spruce top and sie and back silkwood.

The gitar sounds really good for live playing or recording.The strap buttons are solid and i can use on concert without worrying.

i haven't deal with the company but it has lifetime warranty.

Overall, the guitar has a good looking and good sound.if it were stolen , i would buy it again . I really Love this guitar very much .

Made in Australia 2000, has 21 frets. It has a AA Spruce top and Solid Queensland Maple (Silkwood) back and sides. The neck is also Queensland Maple with a Rosewood fingerboard/dot inlays. It has a satin nitro-cellulose finish. It's the one of the basic models of the solid-body range so it doesn't have any gloss, mother of pearl inlay type decorations(not that you really need it to make it sound better). Overall the CW80 has enough features that make it look really nice and sound good.

The sound is one of the strong points of this instrument. It has a loud clear sound that can hold tone. To be honest I reckon it contains both a full rich sound and a bright sound providing you use the right gauge of strings. I recommend Martin SP lights.

This guitar has quarter-sawn silkwood(Queensland Maple). It has a nice figure to it that changes form if you loook at it from different angles. The back and sides have Blackwood binding istead of Ivory\plastic binding. The headstock has a different figure to it than the back and sides whcih provide a nice contrast in textures. It has a rosewood bridge and herringbone rosette also.

The finish is starting to wear in as I play more on it which is cool because its starting to get this weared gloss like finish. I see this as a good live guitar although I don't have it fitted with a pickup. Ben Harper uses this guitar live so it must be pretty good. The only finish problem that I encountered with this guitar is that the wood is very easily dinted so I have to be that little bit too careful.

I haven't dealt with Maton yet but they are very reliable (in Australia that is).

I have been playing for 2 and a half years now and i'm looking into another Maton, but an electric. A new MS2000D SD. Check it out at www.maton.com.au . I love the sound of this guitar. I tried other guitars like Takamines and Martins but they just didn't match up to the Solid wood sound. I would say this guitar matches the higher priced A80 (Australian Series) in sound. It just lacks the gloss finish. This guitar is incredible value for money. I wouldn't go past the CW80 for value. Big sound for a small price.