Here at MacKenzie & Marr Guitars we produce wonderful solid wood acoustic guitars. Until recently we only made one model “Tofino”- a Canadian Western red cedar top small jumbo - and our production was limited to a few hundred guitars a year so we sometimes (with apologies to Stuart McLean) refer to ourselves as “The World's Smallest Guitar Store”.

We're committed to playing our own tune because we think that's what it takes - to stand out in the crowd, to add real value to our instruments and to have our customers embrace us as friends.

For our first guitar we could have followed the herd – spruce top, rosewood back and sides, etc.... but does the world really need one more Martin D-28 “me too” knock-off? The MacKenzie & Marr “Tofino”, while paying tribute to the innovations of past masters with scalloped X- bracing and hand carved, precision dovetail fitted neck, breaks with tradition in both body shape and wood choices.

Playing a cedar-top Tofino for the first time is a revelation. But it's not going to happen in a guitar store. The only two places you can buy a MacKenzie & Marr guitar are at the company and over the Internet. Slightly inconvenient – its true, but knocking out the costs of retail distribution shaves $600 to $1,000 off the price of our guitar.

Lately we've been working on other models. We added a left-hand version of Tofino. We call it Nanaimo. Since quite a few members of the MacKenzie & Marr Clan (the easiest club in the world to join) asked about adding pickups we introduced an electrified cutaway - the Dionisio. It's available for late September. We've also discovered another gem of a factory that makes astounding hand made acoustics. With a bit or the "MacMarr magic dust" the promise to rival one-of-a-kind custom guitars. Stay tuned for details.

In June we rolled out our newest solid wood acoustic - the Ian Tyson Limited Edition, a spruce top guitar that's been getting great reviews from early adapters.

So in a nutshell:
We're a small company producing really great acoustic guitars at an almost affordable price. You can only buy our guitar over the Internet but, in the unlikely event you don't like it and send it back - we'll give you a full refund.