Peter Buck

"I've got a Flat Iron I've been using since '89"

In this image, we can see Buck holding a D major chord on Danelectro 12-string Bouzouki.

Mentioned in this January 20, 2016 Reverb.com interview.

What about Mandolins? I assume you have a pretty large collection.

I've got a Flat Iron I've been using since '89; somebody gave me an Ovation; it's a really nice sounding mandolin; a 1936 Electro Mandolin Rickenbacker with a whammy bar. I'm not sure why you're supposed to have a whammy bar on a mandolin!

Producer Mitch Easter's Danelectro sitar was used for the Chronic Town EP and Murmur, as recalled by Easter in R.E.M.'s Murmur (2005) by J. Niimi.

Easter brought along his white Fender Electric XII twelve-string guitar (a gift from his father when he turned thirteen; Peter Buck did not own an electric Rickenbacker twelve-string at this point, contrary to fan myth), as well as his trusty Danelectro electric sitar (which Buck had used in the Chronic Town session, most prominently on "Gardening at Night"). Easter's Electric XII can also be heard on many of Let's Active's early recordings.