Buy a piece of guitar history with this 1954 Styron Plastic guitar designed by Mario Maccaferri who -with Henri Selmer- built jazz guitars favored and played by Django Reinhardt. Maccaferri developed a variety of plastic instruments including plastic woodwind reeds and a plastic ukulele. guitars, manufactured by the French American Reeds Manufacturing Company of Mount Vernon, New York. In very good condition and comes with the original hang-tag and a virtually new TKL 7800 Premier hardshell case. Two items to note: 1)There's a small crack in the upper right corner of the headstock coverplate only, which I've shown in a close-up pic. 2) There is some separation of the headstock cover from the headstock corner nearest the 4th string tuner. Again see photo. Overall the body is in great shape with only a few scuff marks on the back that show up in the photos, but you cannot feel these as the plastic is still very smooth. The dark plastic was made with swirling coloration creating a faux rosewood effect. I have John Pearse Phos Bronze & Silk Light strings on it. The tuning pegs work, tunes-up to pitch and I play it w/ light finger picking & strum. With that said this guitar is more about collecting and history; you're probably not going to lead a sing-along with it. I purchased from a guitar store going out of business that had purchased it new* for their collection. (*It was part of stock discovered in a warehouse in the 70/80's). If you research these you'll find that Jimmy Page once gave Jeff Beck this same model as a gift.
