We're setting new standards for performance, manufacturing quality and design for guitars made overseas. Sure, they're more affordable, but it has always been that you sacrificed quality, performance and function to save that money. With Masters Design, we're changing the way things are done so you get a much better guitar and it's still affordable. It's a guitar that meets standards of perfection, quality and performance that will satisfy serious players and professionals.

We're the designer, U.S. Masters Guitar Works - experienced builders who have designed and built some of the most highly regarded, highly acclaimed guitars in the industry.

We're inventors and innovators and we also design and manufacture guitars for other companies. We're not a virtual guitar company, we're the real deal, forging partnerships in overseas production and product development to bring you quality, performance and value at a level never before realized in the industry. The whole concept behind U.S. Masters is to bring together people who have mastered the art, skill, technology and spirit of making the better guitar and to constantly look to improve the guitar - for the real function and purpose of the guitar - to help you play better and sound better.

2. How They Play
It's got to play well, or its wonderful sound will never be realized. The U.S. Masters designed necks are fast, intuitive and easy, with a uniform feel along their entire length; specially designed to maintain a uniformly low action. And our rigid neck structure is more responsive and makes it easier to play with more dynamics and expression - to really pull the sound and style out of your guitar or bass.

Then...
With these absolutely critical foundations in place, then comes component quality and electronics.

Guitar Pickups and Electronics
are straight forward, but sound good. A hot, high output humbucking pickup set is in the VXtreme series guitars. The LG507D also features high output humbuckers while the LG507 features a 5-way switch with an additional hot single coil in the middle to make an HSH setup for a broad range of sounds.

It's not just about better access to the fingerboard, it's about all of the inter-related and critical details U.S. Masters employs in determining the ultimate dimension, shape, profile, feel, responsiveness and uniformity of our necks, be they guitar or bass, made in the USA or imports.

How they play is absolutely critical, it's one of the things that sets us apart from other guitar companies. It is a hallmark of U.S. Masters and Masters Design.

We didn't specify components for brand name,
         we specified the Highest Performance, Best Quality Components

Truss Rod Adjustment is as easy as it gets (upper left); no parts to unscrew, no loosening or moving strings, using a standard allen wrench. But wait, there's more! Notice that the truss rod adjustment is at the heel, not the head. (upper left and right) A lot of wood must be removed from the weakest part of the neck with a truss rod adjusting at the headstock. With the slot at the bottom, our neck is stronger and it remains rigid up through the tuning machines helping to eliminate neck resonances that rob tone and response. We use graphite nuts for better tuning and pitch stability. This is our EPiB4-2: a sparkling pearl white finish, black chrome hardware, maple fingerboard and black pearl inlays; real pearl, not plastic. Look at it in the lower left photo. This picture shows the unrestricted access players have to the entire fingerboard with our EP body design. There is no heel and the neck profile remains the same all the way to the body! It plays low, fast and easy from the 1st fret to the 24th.

Most of the models have ebony fingerboards, more expensive, but a much better fingerboard wood than what is available on most imported guitars and basses. The necks are stronger and more rigid, and give a better tone. Notice the real abalone block inlay and the quality of the inlay work. This is another example of the attention to detail, and the quality of materials and workmanship.

Linear Carbon
Fiber Reinforcement
inside the neck