Status of Daion Guitar Company

Subject: RE: Status of Daion Guitar Company
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 26 Feb 07 - 09:10 AM

Alas Dartford Warbler I cannot remember - and it doesn't help that I have no idea what you look like.

More recently I have discovered that THE Mike Nicholson used to have one too.

Mine now has a headway snake pickup and it suits it very well, but it's the generation 1 snake and I gather the generation 2 are less good.

I have also seen a number of Daion electric planks on ebay and any single pole or humbucker as appropriate would fit. For a Bumsucker I reckon the Jackson C-90 is the best in the world ever.....

Subject: RE: Status of Daion Guitar Company
From: Dartford Warbler
Date: 26 Feb 07 - 08:26 AM

A response to an old thread, but here is an interesting website:

http://home.att.net/~daion/

I have an '80. Could it have been me who approached you at Dartford Richard after seeing that familiar tuning fork emblem on your guitar?

Paul Downes played one for a while.

Subject: RE: Status of Daion Guitar Company
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 24 Jun 99 - 04:45 PM

Daion and Mugen were the same guitars. They were imported into the UK under different names and I guess the Daion Company you refer to was the US distributor. I think Mugen came first. I have a 1978 Mugen, I know a man who has a slotted head 12 string, I've seen a twin neck in Andy's in Denmark Street (London). There is a resident at Faversham club (I think) who has a grand concert size and (blasphemy!) he has taken the brass-coloured alloy nut off and replaced it with a bone one. One of the MacAlmans is reputed to have one but I've never seen it. One visitor to Dartford club approached me becasue he had one, and two people talked to me at Cambridge folk festival on year because they had them too. One of them should be traceable because he was from a bluegrass band from the South coast of Emgland and there can't be many of those. ALl are acoustic but mine now has an undersaddle piezo which sounds too twangy.

I haave been told that they will tolerate 13/56 strings but I trie d to use 13/58s on mone 'cos I liked the sound an destabilised the table and now can only risk 12/52s on it.

Mine says "made in Japan" on it and I have gleaned that they were the Japanese attempt to make a "supermartin" hence the very sharp sound.

Subject: Status of Daion Guitar Company
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 24 Jun 99 - 11:51 AM

Does anyone know if Daion is still in business? My sister has one circa 1975 and the pick up is broken on it. I was hoping to contact them with the serial # to see if we could get the proper replacement part, but a serch of the 'net failed to turn anything up under Daion. I believe they were originally on the west Coast of Canada, but I could be wrong.

Thanks in advance.

Steve