McPherson MG-5.0 XP 2007-8, Natural

About McPherson Guitars

McPherson Guitars builds in Sparta, Wisconsin, where Matt McPherson (also the founder and CEO of Mathews Archery, headquartered in the same town) began chasing a revolutionary acoustic design in the late 1990s. The shop has produced heirloom-quality wooden flat-tops in limited numbers since 2001, hand-built by a small team of luthiers, and more recently has extended the same design principles to a carbon-fiber line that's earned its own following. Tonewood Atlas tracks the wood-body MG , Camrielle, and Custom lines at McPherson's upper tiers — the part of the catalog where individual top and back/sides selection and high-tier construction define each build. The signature design language carries across the wood line: an offset asymmetrical soundhole, a cantilevered neck that lets the top vibrate without the fretboard extension damping it, and a built-in LR Baggs system tuned for amplified performance that stays close to the instrument's natural voice. The carbon-fiber Sable and Touring models sit outside our boutique-acoustic scope by design; if those interest you, McPherson's own site is the right starting point. …

About Carter Vintage Guitars

Carter Vintage Guitars sits at 606 8th Avenue South in Nashville, opened November 2012 by Walter and Christie Carter — each with twenty-five years in the vintage guitar business before they put their names on a shop. Walter spent a decade as Gibson's in-house historian and has authored a dozen books on vintage instruments, including "Gibson: 100 Years of an American Icon" and "Gruhn's Guide to Vintage Guitars"; Christie's focus was the high-end vintage market. The shop's reputation is built on full-disclosure transparency around condition, originality, and provenance — a standard set early and still held to. The catalog leads with vintage — pre-war Martins, original-finish Gibsons, vintage Fender — but the new-boutique acoustic side runs deep alongside it: Collings, Bourgeois, Santa Cruz, Huss & Dalton, Goodall, McPherson, Lowden, and Furch are anchor brands, with a rotating long tail of smaller US luthiers (Boucher, Pre-War Guitars Co., Beauregard, Sexauer, Tippin, Kevin Ryan, and others) passing through. Carter became part of TNAG Global in 2022 — the parent holding company that also acquired Norman's Rare Guitars in early 2026 — but day-to-day curation has stayed centered on the original Carter team. Worldwide shipping; in-person browsing on 8th Avenue South.

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