My Kid Picked Out His Graduation Guitar!

**Elias Graves** · 05-20-2012, 01:11 AM

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.

The Masterbuilt is a really good sounding guitar.

**Elias Graves** · 05-20-2012, 02:02 AM

**Athiest_Peace** · 05-20-2012, 02:16 AM

HNAGD EG's SON!!!!!

and happy new uke day too!

**Tig** · 05-20-2012, 02:36 AM

Nice choice on the Masterbilt.
HND, son of EG!

**Elias Graves** · 05-20-2012, 02:47 AM

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.

**Kerouac** · 05-20-2012, 03:14 AM

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.

**dodgechargerfan** · 05-20-2012, 03:34 AM

Nice! HNGD!

**PRScott** · 05-20-2012, 03:54 AM

Nice! Boy inherited some taste...

**jaxn slim** · 05-20-2012, 04:56 AM

Excellent. It's great when a guitar quest comes together like that. Beautiful guit at that!

**instantsteve** · 05-20-2012, 12:30 PM

Beautiful and mojo too!

**BlackCat** · 05-20-2012, 01:20 PM

Congrats on the graduation and the new guitar.

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**Mark Wein** · 05-20-2012, 02:40 PM

Sweet!

**Denverdave** · 05-20-2012, 03:10 PM

Congrats! I used to own one that was (I believe) the same model.

**Elias Graves** · 05-20-2012, 04:06 PM

It's a DR500. No electronics.

**irishstu** · 05-21-2012, 02:00 AM

Very nice.

**Denverdave** · 05-21-2012, 02:08 AM

Originally Posted by Elias Graves

It's a DR500. No electronics.

That was the one. I needed electronics and that was why I sold it to a guy on HCGJ. I was a really sweet mellow tone from that guitar.

**Chad** · 05-21-2012, 12:24 PM

I like it. I really need to pick up an acoustic one of these days.

**Elias Graves** · 05-21-2012, 01:08 PM

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.

**altoidman** · 05-21-2012, 06:13 PM

Seems hard to beat at that price point.

**ellengtrgrl** · 05-21-2012, 08:54 PM

AN Epi Masterbilt - VERY nice!

Congrats!

**smorgdonkey** · 05-29-2012, 06:45 PM

...and 40 is really good at inspecting too.

**Elias Graves** · 05-29-2012, 10:00 PM

Way better than that lazy asshole 32

**Prages** · 05-31-2012, 01:46 AM

Originally Posted by Elias Graves

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.

My zombie Fender may still be my favorite acoustic ever.

**Elias Graves** · 05-31-2012, 01:01 PM

That's the weird thing especially with acoustics. You never know which one has the goods.
The cheap ibanez we had was great but I looked at a dozen more like it over the last couple of years and not one was as nice as the one we had.