MJ Guitar Engineering is located in Belgrade, MT about
90 miles north of beautiful Yellowstone Park. Owner and founder Mark Johnson
has been building guitars for over 25 years. During that time he hoped
that one day he would be able to design his dream guitar, later to become
known as the Mirage. In late 1993 he built the first Mirage prototype.
The goal was to create a guitar that was completely unique, from the headstock
down to the contours of it’s body. After all the bugs were worked out
the production process began on two models known as the Custom and Standard.
Soon followed a third model the Classic in late 1995. Even after production
began some minor changes were made which included adding two new models
to the Mirage line, the Rally and GT in 1997.