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What do we mean by 'High Performance'?
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High Performance Structural Innovations:
•A patented new way to join neck and body that actually improves
tone, timbre, attack, dynamic response and structural
integrity - the Compression-Set Captive Neck Joint

•An improved neck structure enhances tone, timbre, attack,
dynamic response, structural integrity and strength.

•A new neck profile improves efficiency, accuracy and
response and reduces fatigue.

•A special treatment and finishing process provides a
superior, “broken in” feel to the neck.

•Better pitch and tuning stability is achieved with improved
string geometry, structural considerations and by using the
finest components.

•New pickup and circuitry designs dramatically improve tone
and provide greater versatility.click here

•Precision craftsmanship, fanatical attention to detail and
premium woods and components provide a consistent high
level of quality from instrument to instrument.

•Designed to satisfy the most discriminating professionals,
live and in the studio.

We believe these differences are significant enough,
that your playing will improve as will your sound!
Heres what the Pros think:

"In the last few years I have played U.S. Masters guitars on recordings alongside some of Nashville's best guitar players including Keith Urban, Dan Huff, and Joe Don Rooney from Rascal Flatts. The guitars always hold there own in tone and playability every time I pull them out. The personal service from Dave and Dick has always been a great plus, and it's nice to know the people who are actually making your guitar. I highly recommend these instruments because I have actually used them in themost critical sessions and up against the best many times now,
and they have never let me down."
Monty Powell, Producer, Nashville, TN

"I can play things on this neck I can’t play on other guitars.These instruments are in the PRS‚ Tom Anderson realm and are much more affordable. You know I’m not sure why,cause frankly, these are better guitars!”
Erick Hailstone - Professional Studio Musician, Composer,
Producer, Sound Designer, Programmer and Clinician

By combining the most impressive attributes of existing neck designs with our rock solid, innovative, new Ever-Tru neck structure and profile, we enhanced the qualities that make great guitars and basses: attack; sustain; no dead spots; thick, full-bodied tone everywhere on the neck; an intuitive, consistent feel. It’s super responsive - alive in your hands.

Our innovative, patented Compression-Set Captive Neck Joint enhances tone, timbre, resonance, attack, sustain and structural integrity and allows virtually unimpeded access to the entire fingerboard. It provides the advantages of neck-thru sustain and upper neck access with a richness of resonances and ease of service a neck-thru can’t provide.

We created a fundamental structure that underlies every model of guitar and bass we make that consistently gives them the exceptional acoustical qualities absolutely necessary to a great instrument.The design is without compromise for tuning stability, even under aggressive playing with lots of bending (including bends behind the nut) - even with aggressive use of a tremolo.

We enlisted the knowledge and talents of one of the world’s most foremost pickup designers and innovators to develop a variety of proprietary pickup sets to our unique specifications and qualifications - pickups devoid of irritating sonic artifacts, pickups that enhance and glorify the exceptional resonant qualities of our instruments.

We rethought every detail of the instrument from head to toe, without regard to tradition or conventional practices to determine if there isn’t a better way to do things to give serious, accomplished players the best guitar or bass we possibly can. And we make our instruments with minute tolerances and a degree of consistency very uncommon in the industry. You can order with confidence that the feel and sound will be very much the same from one guitar or bass to the next.

We developed a way to deliver instruments loaded with substantial features and advantages, completely made with the finest American components - at prices well below other quality manufacturers.

The art of playing consumes body and soul. The complex interaction and precision of mental and physical actions make it a highly athletic experience. World class athletes use technically advanced equipment and techniques to achieve the greatest muscular, skeletal, and mental efficiencies. Shoes, skies, skates, clothing, cycles, clubs, gloves; significant advances that improve performance are constantly being developed. So, why are musicians, truly skilled athletes, limiting themselves with equipment designed in the 1950's? No one really gave them a choice until now...

We designed our neck so your skeleton and muscles will work efficiently, the way they were designed to work. We designed it to reduce the number and diversity of different motions required to play the guitar. Fewere, less complex, and more efficient motions make for more efficient mental activity so more of your mind can concentrate on the music; on what to play, not how to play it. Exertion, speed, precision, strength, stamina, agility, quickness: get it with U.S. Masters' Performance Designed Ever-Tru Neck: a sigificant and substantial advancement for guitarists and bassists desigring their best possible performance; a neck that removes your limitations, relieves fatigue, and helps you make better music.

U.S. Masters Guitar Works is a product of M-Tec Corp.
2324 Pinehurst Dr. Unit B Middleton, WI 53562
608-836-5505 Fax:608-836-6530
Toll Free: 1-877-716-0000

These products are covered by U.S. Patents Nos. 5,886,272 & 6,051,765
The Following are Trademarks of U.S. Masters Guitar Works:
Compression-Set Captive Neck Joint · Contoured-Flex Truss Rod System · Contoured-Flex Neck Reinforcing Truss Rod System
Sportster · EP · Super T · Punch Control · Ever-Tru Neck · Extended Uniform Profile · MultiVoice Tone Circuit
MVP MultiVoice Tone Circuit · Studio Active Electronics · Live Active Electronics · Versatek
Power Harness · U.S. Masters Guitar Works · U.S. Masters · U.S. Masters Oval Logo