My Kid Picked Out His Graduation Guitar!

Elias Graves

Elias Graves

Common misfit
Took him down to the store to find a new acoustic to replace the stolen Ibanez as a graduation gift. He tried everything under $600 including a Taylor 110, a Martin, some Yamahas and others. In the end, the clear winner to all three of us was a used Epi Masterbuilt dread. Even came with case. We saved enough that we bought him a nice uke and a bag for it.

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The Masterbuilt is a really good sounding guitar.
 
This thing is pretty impressive. Solid mahogany back, mahogany neck, solid spruce top, Grover sta-tite tuners, bone nut and a beautiful rosewood board with abalone inlays. It plays great and sounds absolutely huge. I see why these get a lot of love.
 
I helped one of my few adult students pick a guitar. We played everything under $1500 and the Masterbilt was the best of the lot. Hell, there were 3 really good Masterbilts, but this one just had the mojo.

Hope your kid enjoys his for years to come. :thu:
 
These are worth a look. It sounded better than the $500 martins and the taylor 110.
The surprise of the trip (besides this one) was a Fender.
A Kingman Elvis Presley model. That one was pretty nice.

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