Re: D'Agastino Guitar

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Posted by jeff on Sun, 03/30/08 - 18:53:54.

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

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