Have been looking in a local guitar shop here in NZ, and have come across the Maton range, made in Australia: they seem to be extremely well made and very nice sounding axes. Medium priced, by comparison with the likes of Martins. I played several in the shop and all of them sounded good there. One, in fact spoke to me so sweetly that I fell in love with her and wanted to take her home with me...

The one I particularly liked had a Australian native hardwood solid top in Bunuba wood (?spelling) - sounded great, but featured a lot of small whorls in the grain, which made the guitar look a bit unusual.

Anyone else come across these guitars? Any views?