DAION MARK XX #810042

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Photos from online auctions April and July 2010

Owner: 

Unknown owner, Bristol, UK

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810042

This is a Japanese Daion Power Series Mark XX electric guitar. It has a 9 piece laminated through body neck of alternating rosewood and maple. The body is ash with rosewood core (a feature on the tan finish models only) 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 tan .

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 string-through-body fixed bridge with brass saddles. These sold for $799 new in 1982: the top of the Daion electric guitar range.

This guitar was sold on eBay by someone in Strasbourg France in April 2010, then offered for sale again on eBay by a UK owner in July 2010.

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