MD-3 • Mikey Demus • Dry Satin Black

Manson Guitar Works

£1999

Manson Guitar Works and Mikey Demus, guitarist with UK reggae metallers Skindred, are proud to announce their latest release, the Manson MD-3, based on the classic MA profile guitar and wholly made in the UK at the company’s Ashburton factory. Mikey’s new instrument has been updated extensively for its third MD iteration, with his personal input to the new model informed by its stellar performance on the gigging cycle for Skindred’s critically-acclaimed Smile album. With a new roast maple neck carve that allows effortless chordal work, a revised profile shape that is optimal for heavy riffing

Manson Guitar Works's own words, read from their page.

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The part other shops don't tell you. Three separate questions, kept separate on purpose, each with its source.

UK company
Registered at Companies House as MANSON GUITAR WORKS LIMITED, number 08393645. Checked 2026-08-29.
Means the business is a British legal entity, not a British-sounding name owned elsewhere. It says nothing about where anything is made.
UK operations
Stated by the company: "The first was the move to significantly larger premises in Ashburton, Devon, allowing Manson Guitar Works to greatly expand its production capacity" Source.
Means people employed here, or premises they actually work from. We keep this separate from the company badge because a registered office can be an accountant's spare room, and a company can be registered in Britain while everything it does happens somewhere else. Where we have not looked, we say so rather than assuming.
British-owned
Not established. Many companies file a statement rather than naming a controlling shareholder.
Read from the register of people with significant control, following the chain of holding companies. It does not gate anything: a firm can be made here and owned elsewhere, and that is worth telling you rather than hiding.
Where it is made
The maker doesn't say, so neither do we.
This is about the individual product, not the company. A British firm can sell things made abroad, which is normal and not a criticism. We would rather tell you which is which than average them into a score.