Jeff Beck’s (plastic) Maccaferri!

lucky

It’s only one of the dubious plastic Macs and about three times the price you’d normally pay for one - but still, it was Jeff Becks ….

https://www.christies.com/en/events/jeff-beck-the-guitar-collection/what-is-on#highlights

click through to no.8

billyshakes

(or click backwards 5x to no.8 to save some clicks. :-)

I like how he had a Johnny Depp signature model. I wonder if Johnny has a Beck signature model?!

wim

Estimate GBP 2,000-3,000 🤣

Those were $30 in the 50's, which is probably about $300 today adjusting for inflation. I find it hard to believe they got any better with age. Think I'd rather have 100,000 Maccaferri clothes pegs

Russell Letson

Quite a while back, Elderly Instruments had a stash of NOS plastic Macs and I bought one. It's a surprisingly decent instrument, a bit delicate thanks to the styrene plastic, but quite well designed. The consistent weak point seems to be the tuners, which are a planetary-gear design, but with aluminum gears that break--and the only way to get at them for repair or replacement is to crack open the welded-together headstock. It's not an operation I have had the nerve to conduct, which is unfortunate, because the guitar would be a perfect office wall-hanger, impervious to 20%-humidity/forced-air-heating Minnesota winters. (Unlike the Baby Taylor that developed top cracks from that environment.)