Design Your Resonator Guitar

I can offer you,

A choice of Body designs Singlecone Resonator guitars. Tricone Resonator guitars.

From traditional to my own unique styles, cutaways and non cutaways or maybe you have a design you would like me to build for you.

Brass or Copper Body.

Choose from the bright tone of Brass or the bass sound of Copper as your body material.

Crafted to fit your Hands

I can carve the neck to the width that is most comfortable for you.

Quality Woods

Beautiful Curly Maple, Mahogony, Rosewood and Ebony neck options.

Tuners

I use Grover, Gotoh and Schaller tuners with knobs to match your guitars finish.

Adjustable Saddle

Unique to Mattsen Single cone models, for accurate tuning when raising or lowering the string height.

Electric Pickups

 I can fit magnetic or piezo or both to suit solo or band playing.

Various finishing option

Your guitar body can be, plated in Nickel, polished Brass or patina Copper.

Craftsmanship Guaranteed

I build my resonator guitars to last forever. This is achieved by building in a manner that allows them to be easily repaired if needed.

Delivered to your door

I have sent guitars to the USA, Japan, UK, Australia and Europe.

Watch your Guitar being built

Regular photo updates are emailed to you.

Certificate of Authenticity

Each guitar is supplied with a certificate stating its year of manufacture, specifications and that it was handcrafted by Russ Mattsen.

Competitively Priced

I offer an instrument of high quality and great value that is similar in price to other handcrafted instruments.

 Priced from $3500US ( $4000NZ)

Together we can build a very beautiful guitar, guaranteed to inspire great music and satisfy your requirements. Please feel free to contact me to discuss your resonator guitar.

Russ Mattsen.