McPherson Guitars
McPherson MG-5.0 XP Acoustic Guitar (c.2005)
Listed by Elderly Instruments · Lansing, MI
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Specs
- Top
- Adirondack
- Back / Sides
- Rosewood Unspec
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- Ga
- Scale length
- 25.5"
- Nut width
- 1.75"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- Yes
- Condition
- New
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 Elderly Instruments
Elderly Instruments has been a Lansing, Michigan institution since 1972 — founder Stan Werbin opened the shop in East Lansing with fifteen used instruments and no cash register, then spent fifty-plus years growing it into one of the largest specialty music retailers in the country while keeping it family-run (Stan still leads; daughter Lillian is the next generation). The store moved to its current home in a renovated old lodge hall in Lansing's Old Town district in 1983 and runs today with about forty employees, many tenured 20+ years. Their catalog is famously broad — Taylor, Martin, Fender, and Yamaha alongside Collings, Bourgeois, Lowden, McPherson, Santa Cruz, Goodall, and Atkin — and the in-house repair shop, a separate 3,000-square-foot space with a spray booth, inspects and sets up nearly every instrument they sell. A specialty music store that's outlasted every shift in retail and stays known for its repair expertise and customer care.
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