The Huntington model was the standard-bearer of Micro-Frets’ unorthodox body shapes throughout the company’s brief existence in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

The Micro-Frets facility in Frederick, MD, was a hotbed of design ideas, but in 1973, founder Ralph Jones died. His partner and financial backer wanted to keep the company going, but Jones’s widow did not, so after six years in business and a total output of no more than 3,000 guitars, Micro-Frets closed it’s doors in 1974. Some leftover parts appeared in the next few years on Diamond S guitars.

Although models such as the Huntington and Orbiter were attention grabbers, with their four body points and slightly bloated look, the more conventional, symmetrically shaped Micro-Frets designs were more widely seen.

Mark Famer of Grand Funk Railroad played a Signature model, and Carl Perkins played a Calibra during the company’s heyday. In the 1980s, long after the company’s demise, Martin Gore of Depeche Mode kept the brand name in front of audiences, playing a Micro-Frets Spacetone.