Posted by jeff on March 30, 2008 at 18:53:54:
In Reply to: D'Agastino Guitar, looks like Les Paul Custom posted by Bob Leiby on August 14, 2006 at 19:11:02:
I got my D'agastino benchmark series in 1978. my understanding was that they were hand crafted either in Italy or that the family came from a family of Italian instrument makers. I know that they made more acoustic and classical guitars than they did electrics. The benchmark has one peice neck through body 24 fret ebony fretboard with 2 double coil d'marzio humbucker pick-ups, inlaid mother of pearl on the headstock and on the body below the bridge-- all came stock. Both pick-ups have pot switches on the guitar to switch from single to double coil in any position. I've only seen about 2 or three others in my life-- and the only colors I've seen it in are red stain and wood-grain. I've had mine for 30 years and the action is still great. The only real disadvantage is that it ways about 11 pounds-- other than that it's a fast neck with a wide range of thick and bitting tones. I love it when it gets some hot tubes on a good tube amp. It gets its own lightning-like distortion tone even when you are not using a distortion box. It's one bad Ax