McPherson #1825 4.5 Flamed Black Acacia Koa/Bearclaw Spruce Acoustic/Electric Guitar

Combine exquisite craftmanship and cutting edge guitar design and you have McPherson Guitars. Featuring their revolutionary offset soundhole technology, state of the art bracing, and their unique "no-touch" cantilevered neck design. Collectively, these technologies allow the top of the instrument to vibrate and resonate to it's fullest potential.

Bearclaw Sitka Spruce Top: Bearclaw, like the curl in curly maple, is a rippling of the longitudinal fibers, which divides the surface of the wood into shimmering patterns. Unlike the even waves that usually occur in maple, bearclaw usually appears on asymmetrical or randomly broken patterns. This phenomenon almost always occurs in older trees that have dense, stiff grain structure and high sound velocity. Thus bearclaw is usually a reliable indicator of the better examples of tonewoods within any given species of spruce.

Flamed Black Acacia Koa Back and Sides: The color and rippling figure of Acacia Koa is beautiful to behold. The tone is sweet, almost harp-like. This wood is a strummer's delight. It typically starts out very bright and as the guitar ages, the tone matures and becomes warmer and more balanced.

Depth at the tail block is 4.5 inches. As on all McPhersons, the depth at the neck block is 4 inches.

All McPherson® guitars include the following unless otherwise specified:
 
- Scale length: 25 1/2 inches
- Upper bout: 11 1/8 inches
- Waist: 10 1/4 inches
- Lower bout: 16 inches
- Body length: 20 1/8 inches
- Overall length: 41 1/2 inches
- Neck width: Standard 1 3/4 inch @ nut, 2 5/32 inch @ 12th
- Wide 1 7/8 inch @ nut, 2 5/32 inch @ 12th
- String spacing: E to E - 2 3/16 inches
- Offset sound hole.
- Cantilevered neck.
- Truss Rod: Non-adjustable, unidirectional high-modulus carbon fiber
- Ebony bridge
- Ebony bridge pins: Unslotted with mother of pearl dot
- Fingerboard: Ebony with 14 inch radius
- Nut: Natural Bone
- The Buzz Feiten intonation system
- Three custom bone saddles set up for low, med, and tall action
- Binding: Flamed Koa
- Electronics: L.R. Baggs RTS2 system
- Ribbon transducer pick-up, pre-amp and volume control
- Tuners: Schaller M6G Gold Tuning machines
- Gold strap button
- Case: Custom fit Ameritage case with built in humidification system
- Inlay: McPherson® mother of pearl inlay on head cap and mirror image on bridge plate.
- Finish: Lawrence-McFadden UV finish.
- Strings: Elixir Nanoweb medium gauge