Harmos^R MatraX^TM Guitars

The MatraX^TM Guitar - An Innovation Invitation to You

The MatraX^TM is an instrument of natural creation.
Its multi-dimensional design opens new pathways of sound creativity.

Xtra Light Weight
Xtra Strength Design
Xtra Sound Spectrum
Xtra Sustain
Xtra New Guitar

Conventional Electric Guitars are amazing and beautiful instruments. Over the years, superb designs using various wood and other materials created instruments with a panoply of available tones.

MatraX^TM - Xtra Design Dimensions.

The MatraX is the only electric guitar designed and patented in 3 dimensions. It took genius and creativity to move beyond typical looks and sounds into a new guitar design with an Xtra dimension. The new MatraX carbon fiber and wood design is tonally dynamic - you can feel its vibe even before plugging in.

The 3-dimensional MatraX creates a superbly responsive and balanced instrument with a revolutionary tone spectrum and terrific sustain.

The MatraX guitar uses its Xtra light, Xtra strong body to create a patented resonance spectrum, That patented spectrum generates outstanding clarity and precision attack on every fret of the neck.

All MatraX guitars have a crunchy low end, woody mid-ranges and a full sounding, very precise high end. Its outstanding clarity and attack shine through any effects and its balanced frequency response requires very little or no EQ.


MatraX features superb harmonics and longer sustain.
( go to Technology page for more detail)


Recently, builders have added chambers to vintage guitar bodies, to enhance tone. The chambers do add tonal life, but the difference in tone between the vintage unchambered and chambered designs is actually minimal, when compared to the MatraX body design and its wide tone spectrum and superb sustain.

If you are looking for an Xtra dimension to your music,
please take some time to consider this revolutionary guitar.







MatraX^TM - More than just a new look.
To maintain the patented tone spectrum of the Matrax, every part of this guitar had to be analyzed, reviewed and if necessary completely redesigned. Most common guitar designs use features originally made 50 years ago. Many of these older designs could not sustain the 3 dimensional tone spectrum of the Matrax.

To create the Matrax, we had to completely redesign, recreate and improve:
- the body structure
- the neck joint
- the neck stiffeners
- the wood grain structure
- the bridge and tuner mountings
- the guitar weight

Neck Stiffeners and Neck Joint.
The connection from the body to the neck is typically a weak point of the guitars strength. The neck joint is a critical area in maintaining the tone of any guitar. The traditional thick bulky bolted joint or neck though designs have been used for the past 50 years. The Matrax neck joint has more strength than either a standard bolted or neck through design, and it does it without the uncomfortable thickness of a bolted joint or the fixed angle of a neck through.

Wood Grain and Painting.
Wood grain direction is important to guitar design, wood differs significantly depending on grain direction. In order to provide the correct wood strength for the Matrax design and tone needs, we had to create a different grain structure from orthodox guitars. The MatraX uses tone tubes with special directionally assembled grain woods. With vintage designs, it is cheaper to just put the wood grain in the direction that is most convenient rather than the one that is best for the tone and sustain. Unfortunately, our directional graining design makes our unpainted guitars look a little piecemeal, so the MatraX neck and body are painted for a nicer flow and feel.

Bridge and Tuner Design.
Because of the space frame body, some standard bridge and tuner designs don't work to hold the tone and sustain. We found the best sustain and tone occurs when the string connection goes all the way from the end board through to the head.

Headless Tuner Design.
In looking into current guitar designs, most recent guitar styles use the headless style tuners. New designers have found that headless tuners are lighter and allow a more balanced neck and body. These tuners were not available in the 50s and 60s when vintage guitars were built. For those who prefer it, the standard tuner design is easily incorporated. With either design, we find that in order to enhance sustain, the bridge string needs to be terminated at the end board, either with headless tuners, a stop termination or a specially customized locked trapeze.

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200 style | 250 style | 275 style | 325 style

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Frequently Asked Questions

Why the MatraX?

Why Use Wood?

How Thick is the Body?

Why Does the Neck Feel So Long?

Why the MatraX?

Musicians often have multiple instruments with different combinations of wood - mahogany, ash, maple etc., with different body shapes and possibly tone chambering to create various individual sounds. The open space frame design of the Matrax guitar goes beyond traditional design enhancements and adds a whole new dimension of tone and playing creation. Although the MatraX can be a stage guitar too, it is probably most useful in the studio to expand your tone options. It might even be a good thing to co-own a Matrax with a bro so you will have access to one when you need to go beyond conventional.

Why use wood, rather than all carbon fiber design?

Combining openly vibrating tone wood with carbon fiber adds another musical dimension to the sound of the guitar. Without affecting the fundamental resonance of the guitar, every tonal vibration has tone wood affecting it as well as carbon fiber. With strategic wood spheres at the nodes of the guitar body, every sound of the guitar passes through resonating wood as well as carbon fiber.

The Body looks thick. How thick is it?

Because the MatraX is a 3D guitar it looks much thicker in photos than other guitars. The MatraX is slightly thicker, but not much. Most solid body electric guitars are about 2 1/8 inch thick. The MatraX body is about 1 inch thicker, which is about the same thickness as a semi-hollow body guitar. Overall, the MatraX guitar body plays very comfortably,

Why Does the Neck Feel So Long?

Standard bolt-on guitars have a heel thickness of over 2 inches. The MatraX guitar has a heel thickness of about 1 inch for easier play up on the high frets. When you play on the higher frets you are not limited by the heel.