DAION MARK XX #840214

Picture credit: 

Photos from online auction April 2010

Owner: 

Pawnshop in Hendersonville, North Carolina

Brand name: 

Model name: 

Serial number: 

840214

This is a beautiful Japanese Daion Power Series Mark XX/GR electric guitar. It has a 9 piece laminated through body neck of alternating rosewood and maple. The body has an ash top and back sandwiching a maple core, and is carved on both the front and back.
It has an ivory celluloid bound ebony fingerboard with brass dot markers, brass nut and saddles. This one is finished in brown or dark green (difficult to tell from the picture).

Pickups are a pair of Daion Humbuckers with black exposed bobbins.
The pickup selector switch gives neck only, both or bridge only options. The Les Paul style knobs are pairs of individual volume and tone controls for each pickup and there are individual pickup coiltap switches. The bound headstock has a brass truss rod cover with "Power mark XX" on it. A gold DAION logo on the front and a black Daion logo on the back. The serial number is printed in white on the reverse of the headstock.

It has a massive string-through-body fixed bridge with brass saddles. The sustain on this guitar must be incredible. These sold for $799 new in 1982: the top of the Daion electric guitar range.

Sold for $1,576 in online auction April 2010.