Prisma Guitars Mattsonia
Prisma Guitars returns to the channel — this time with the Mattsonia, one of the most visually and tonally distinctive guitars I've had in my hands. Welcome back to Edge of Breakup.
In this episode the Prisma Guitars Mattsonia takes center stage — Lollar Imperial PAF Humbuckers, Emerson Custom 500K pots, and Paper/Oil cap, into the Benson Amps Monarch 2x12" with Celestion G12H speakers, with the Origin Effects Revival Drive Compact, R2R Electric Rangemaster OC44 Germanium, Effectrode Tube Vibe, Boss Waza Tube Amp Expander, and Echo Fix EF-X3 Chorus Echo.
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Prisma Guitars is the work of luthier Nicholas Pourfard and his team, building in California. Every instrument is one-of-a-kind with a serial number — no production runs, no duplicates. Prisma's signature design element is reclaimed skateboard hard rock maple used as a top material, with each top being a unique 1/1 original skateboard deck. The result is visually unlike anything else in guitar lutherie — compressed, dyed, graphic hard rock maple laminated over the body, with the skateboard's colors and graphics visible under the finish. This Mattsonia has a Sherwood Green body with flake nitrocellulose lacquer, cream pickguard, and a skateboard maple top that produces an almost psychedelic color layering against the green.
Nicholas Pourfard's material choices are equally considered on the acoustic side. Spanish Cedar body — tonally similar to mahogany but lighter and more open in the midrange, the same wood used in classical guitar construction for its resonance. Brazilian Walnut fingerboard reclaimed from the Coney Island Boardwalk — dense, stable, with its own tonal contribution and a genuinely remarkable origin story. Mahogany neck (C 87-97 profile). 25.5" scale. 1 5/8" bone nut. 6105 nickel frets. Aged clay fret markers. TonePros wraparound bridge. Unpolished nickel hardware. Staggered vintage inline tuners. Emerson Custom 500K pots with a .022 paper/oil cap — the wiring that lets the Lollar Imperials breathe.
The Lollar Imperial PAF Humbuckers are Lollar's take on the original 1950s Patent Applied For pickup — drawing from the long-revered qualities of the originals while improving frequency balance and giving a slight output boost to the bridge. The combination of Imperials, Emerson Custom 500K pots, and a P/O cap in an all-nitro, Spanish Cedar/mahogany/Brazilian Walnut build is exactly the kind of wiring and tonal foundation this demo explores thoroughly across clean, pushed, and cranked amp tones.
🎸 Prisma Guitars: https://www.prismaguitars.com
🎸 Lollar Imperial PAF: https://www.lollarguitars.com/lollar-pickups
🔊 Benson Amps: https://www.bensonamps.com/guitar-amplifiers
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🎸 Prisma Guitars Mattsonia | Skateboard Maple Top | Spanish Cedar Body | Brazilian Walnut Fingerboard (Coney Island Boardwalk) | Lollar Imperial PAF | Emerson Custom 500K | P/O Cap | Nitro
🎛️ Origin Effects Revival Drive Compact | R2R Electric Rangemaster OC44 Ge | Effectrode Tube Vibe
🎛️ Also: Echo Fix EF-X3 Chorus Echo
🔊 Benson Amps Monarch 2x12" | Celestion G12H | Boss Waza TAE
Recording: Universal Audio Apollo x4 | Lauten Audio LS-208 | Royer R10 & R121 | Sennheiser E906 | Ableton Live 11
