Help with possible identification of this guitar

KlausUS

Only 440 ever built,...... not the best Gypsy guitar for beginners with a neck width of 48mm, but obviously, it would have been a good deal: https://www.siccasguitars.de/shop/guitar/ibanez-mac-10-1981/ . It goes for 3000 EURO💰

cmcmurphy22

Yeah so apparently it sold for $750. Somebody got a good deal.

oh well not too be. I went ahead and pulled the trigger on the mystery Zwinakis that was posted here. 😍

BillDaCostaWilliams

 I went ahead and pulled the trigger on the mystery Zwinakis that was posted here.

Don't think you'll regret it!

JSanta

https://www.djangobooks.com/forum/discussion/comment/101535#Comment_101535

Congrats!

Buco

That's awesome man! That was a good deal but I honestly think you're better off with the Zwinakis.

ChrisMartin

I never saw what was so god about those early Japanese Mac 10 guitars.

Sold as either Ibanez or CSL I had one back in the early '80s and it was junk. Not just the neck width, the construction was factory, not luthier quality and the tone was very wooden and dull.

I know revisionists and guitar speculators have hyped everything Japanese in recent years so we now have that fixed snobbery about Asian made guitars that says Japaneses is best, Korean second, then Indonesian or Chinese at the bottom of the order. In many cases I would defy those same speculators to tell the difference if blindfolded.

I know nothing about Zwinakis but from what others have said on here, I think you certainly got the better guitar.

Bones

The Mac 10 was probably cool as a novelty but the Zwinakis is probably a better instrument especially if you are playing leads.