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In Reply to: Re: marlin guitars? posted by Fred on July 21, 2002 at 12:09:46:

I too have a Marlin model 515 acoustic, made in Japan, bought in 1979. I can't find any information about them on the web. It sounds pretty good, looks nice, but the local guitar shop said that if it needs any real work like refretting then I might be better off investing in a new guitar. It took them a while to finally decide that the top is probably laminated so I think this is a higher end cheap guitar. Looks like solid rosewood back and sides though. Is this the late seventies Toyota (including quality and reliability) of the acoustic guitar world?

Lots of people get confused when I say it's a "Marlin", so I think this was a marketing ploy playing off a more famous name. I figure there aren't too many of them out there because nobody even seems to have heard of the brand and I certainly haven't seen any others.

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