Mac DeMarco’s National 1155E Acoustic Guitar

Mac DeMarco used this National 1155E acoustic guitar during the Live at Austin City Limits concert in February 2018 and at the Lollapalooza Chile that same year.

Specs

This guitar model, although branded as National, was actually produced by Gibson – or at least the body was. It is the exact same body that Gibson used on their J-45/J-50 model, and National just bolted their neck on it.

Mac’s guitar is an electrified version of the 1155 model (therefore the “E” at the end). This means that it had a pickup built-in, which interestingly was mounted under the end of the fingerboard with pole pieces sticking through the rosewood.

Mac, however, installed an additional pickup on his guitar, which based on the looks is the Sunrise S2 Soundhole pickup. The exact same pickup Mac used a year earlier on his 1940s Gibson LG-2.