Micro Frets Signature

this is a style 2 signature with no whammy bar. It has a weird tailpiece too, not the normal Micro-frets stop tailpiece. Apparently MF played around with different designs and this is one they didn't stick with, although it works fine. Tuners have been replace and are Ping ( Schaller type)rather than the 6 on a strip that MF used most of the time.

Pretty clean sound, but O.K. for blues, rock and roll and with the treble rolled off, it's pretty good for jazz too. Definitely not for death metal. Play it through several different Fender, Rivera and a Swart AST and it sounds good through all of them. Bright, but not brittle and the pickups (MF, in plexiglass) are fairly hot. If it were my only guitar, I'd want to be able to get more distortion out of it, but using a TS9 solves that problem.

Nice speedy neck, frets are a bit low, but not so low as to be hard to bend (others I've tried have been impossibly low IMHO). I must say, the adjustable nut works very well and the guitar is PERFECTLY in tune top to bottom according to both my ears and a strobe tuner. Comfortable to play, fairly light. I put straploks on it, but other than that and the tuners, it's totally original and everything works as it should. For a 36 year old guitar the finish is in very good shape as are all the other components.

It's lasted almost 40 years and should be good for another 40. I always have 2 guitars on stage for backup and for different sounds, but this guitar certainly seems well built and reliable. Put straploks on it, but original strap buttons were solid, just not what I like.

Company is long gone

Playing for 30+ years off and on. I've got Fenders, Gibsons, G&L, Travis Bean, Gretsch and others. This guitar,in its own way, is every bit as good as the others. Unique sound, unique look and fun to play. Wish it had a whammy bar, but these are hard enough to find that I feel lucky to have it. Based on market price,it's a lot of guitar for the money.

These guitars were made in Maryland,
The Body feels too big, its a bad copy of a Gibson SG, or maybe a Rickenbacker 320 less one pickup.
The 52 piece nut is a joke! As I understand it one of these was given to Mark Farner byt the Company, He only used it on one tour, then gave it to his little brother.
The guitar has a two peice body that alows the neck to slip and the guitar to go out of tune.c The scale is very short, the Frets are filed down too low!for a good hold when trying to bend the strings , I say trying to bend because the strings are very hard to bend on any of these guitars. The bridge is aluminum even the bridge blocks are aluminum, the nut is made of stanles steel but the rollers don`t work.
When you change string gauge, you have to re set the nut pieces, as well as the bridge. The Pickups are like the old Harmany hollow body`s, And the are microfonic.
The Finish is good very good , But the guitar over all is a bad investment. unless you just want something to marvel at.

The Pickups are Microfonic, That should be the name of the guitar (Micro Fonic) When you move the Vibrato you can hear it through the pickups

Action is great as ;long as you don`t try to bend the strings,The frets are really MICRO! if at all.
The bridge is aluminum and is wrough! it looks home made

It wouls not withstand Live playing just Ask Mark Farner, and anybody else that has ever used one, Carl Perkins had several of these but he very seldon used them.

I`ve played guitar about 50 years this guitar was never a good useable stage instrument, I would not use one on stage without a back up guitar! Cause this one will go out of tune before the first break.

This is a 1969 with two single coils. These guitars were made in Maryland. A double cutaway, solid body with a very stratish tone.
The thing that impresses me most is a small tuneamatic type nut. This allows the guitar to have each strings scale length set independent of the others resulting in the best intonation of any I've ever heard or played.

Think Mark Farner, he was an endorser for Micro Frets at one time.

Action is good. Well balanced. Single coils, so a little hum. But like I said, this adjustable nut knocks me out.

Old guitar, a pawn shop prize. Bought it more for it's curious feature. Wouldn't let anyone see me with it.

Out of bussiness. ???

Kinda average guitar really. Someone really needs to patent this nut idea though.