Meta MBM2P • Dry Satin Black

Manson Guitar Works

£569

The new META Series MBM-2 Signature Guitar is an evolution of our current MBM-1 guitar, our lower price point instrument that delivers a whole new playing and ownership experience for the Manson Guitar Works player. Produced under licence with Cort, it has now been further modified and developed to reflect more closely the body shape of the guitars that Matthew Bellamy plays on stage with MUSE , whilst adding a new options such as a P-90 neck pickup shown here. The body shape is freshly contoured and available in the ever-popular Satin Black or a new Starlight Silver finish. A new high output

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

Buy from Manson Guitar WorksPrice seen 2026-09-04. Affiliate link.

Where this comes from

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.