DestroyAllGuitars Monty Guitars

~ Monty Guitars ~

Brian Monty started out as a guitar player and has continued as a guitar player who makes guitars. After forty-five years of playing and holding guitars, Monty knows what one should feel like in the hands of the player. What has always fascinated him has been the sound generated by the fashioning of the wood itself, those first notes as the guitar is strung up to tension. To Brian Monty, a guitar is a musical instrument that is meant to be played, not to be purchased and then confined to a vault. With this in mind, he fashions guitars that feel, sound and play like you have had it for thirty years.

Monty likes to say that he transfers some of his soul into each instrument as he is sanding it. Anyone who has made a guitar from scratch will understand this. With each guitar, particular attention and care is given to the fitting of the neck to the body. Without this, the guitar will only be half alive. Everything to do with the body and neck is hand-made. There is no "jobbing out" of the necks or any other part of the guitar. There is no CNC machining. All is done the old fashioned way: elbow grease. The necks are hand-sanded and shaped to conform to that certain "feel." The truss rods are made by hand in the shop, as are the truss rod nuts. The guitars are sprayed with traditional nitro lacquer or with a musical instrument lacquer that has a little more flex in it so as to keep cracking at a minimum. Again, the spraying is all done in the shop and not "jobbed out." All stains and colours are custom mixed to suit the individual shades and tones within the different woods, so that each guitar is unique, as they become Monty's own "canvas" or "painting." The bridge and tailpiece are nickel-plated or gold, depending on the client. The pots are linear-taper, the input jack and selector switch are Switchcraft and the tuning machines are Grover unless otherwise specified by the client. Once the guitar is strung up, it is played for a few days and is left to "settle in."

All guitars come with a hard-shell case.

Monty Swingbilly

Semi-hollow mahogany body, Hand carved maple top, Mahogany neck with ebony fingerboard and block inlays, Gretsch Filtertron pick ups, Bigsby Vibrato Tailpiece, Nitrocellulose lacquer finish, Pelham Blue top with dark back and sides, Scale 24 3/4", Hard shell case included...

Monty Bluesmaster

Chambered or solid mahogany body, Hand carved book matched curly birch or curly maple top, Mahogany neck, rosewood board, ivoroid block inlays, Humbucker pick ups, Nitrocellulose lacquer finish, Sunburst finish, Scale 24 ¾’, Hard shell case included. . .

Monty Blues Queen

Hand carved solid book matched maple top, Hand carved solid book matched maple back, Solid bend maple sides, Mahogany center block, Mahogany neck with rosewood fingerboard, ivoroid dot inlays, Cherry red, sunburst, natural or solid colour finish, Nitrocellulose lacquer, Scale 24 ¾”, Humbucker pick ups, Hard shell case included. . .

Monty Bluesbilly

Chambered or solid mahogany body, Hand carved birch or maple top, Body and neck binding: Ivory, Mahogany neck with rosewood board and ivoroid dot inlays, P-90 pick ups, Bigsby Tailpiece or stop tail piece, Bridge: Tune-o-matic bridge, Electronics: CTS 500K linear taper pots, Switchcraft toggle switch and jack, Nitrocellulose lacquer finish, Gold top finish with dark back and sides, all gold, sunburst, or solid colour, Scale 24 ¾’, Hard shell case included. . .

Monty Erica

Solid Carved seasoned spruce top, Solid carved seasoned curly birch back, Solid bent curly birch sides, Mahogany neck, Ebony fingerboard, bridge, tailpiece, and pick guard, Split block mother of pearl inlays, Double bound, Natural or sunburst finish, Nitrocellulose lacquer finish, Scale 25 11/32”, Lower bout 16 1/2”, Gaglio Phantasma pick-up, Hard shell case included. . .

Monty Montrealer

Solid carved seasoned spruce top, Solid carved seasoned curly maple back, Solid bent curly maple sides, Curly maple neck, Ebony fingerboard, bridge, tailpiece, and pick guard, Split block mother of pearl inlays, Triple bound, Natural or sunburst finish, Nitrocellulose lacquer finish, Scale 25 11/32”, Lower bout 18”, Hard shell case included. . .

Monty Rockmaster I

Solid mahogany body, Mahogany neck with rosewood fingerboard and ivoroid dot inlays, P-90 pickups, Nitrocellulose lacquer finish, Cherry, tobacco, t.v. yellow or solid colour finish, Scale 24 ¾”, Hard shell case included. . .

Monty Rockmaster II

Solid korina body, Korina neck with rosewood fingerboard and ivoroid dot inlays, P-90 pickups, Nitrocellulose lacquer finish, Sunburst, t.v. yellow or solid colour finish, Scale 25 ½”, Hard shell case included...

Monty Tonemaster

Carved solid basswood back and sides, Carved solid spruce top, Chambered body, Mahogany neck with rosewood fingerboard and ivoroid dot inlays, Humbucker pickups, Nitrocellulose lacquer, Cherry, sunburst or solid colour finish, Scale 25 ½”, Hard shell case included. . .