Considering it's possibly 40 years old, it's not too bad! Print ad places it around 1978.Please note, guitar has "FS-1000" sticker on the bottom of the fingerboard but from pictures looks like an SH-1000. Couple of chips on the top - one near pickup ring and one on the left edge. Comes with original case.Bumps, scrapes and chips, but not too bad for an instrument of its age.
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Unusual looking guitar, would be great for indie/classic rock. Very well built instrument, as is typical of the Japanese ones! FANTASTIC sound, nice player. SH-1000 has active circuit, resulting in bass / treble boost and more expressive tonality.Great guitar. Sound-wise, acoustic mellow sounds + Sharp solid tone.
ARIA MADE IN JAPAN PRO
Made in Korea, and from what I can gather, Pro II is to Aria what Squire is to Fender. I bought one about 20 years ago for 5k yen. I see Aria pro II basses in hard off all the time. Guess you will have to settle for an Alembic. F holes are carved from chamber-structured top and back. Yeah, I think they only make a handful of models in Japan, which is what Id be after. So this guitar features semi hollow + semi solid. Aria's guitars, that followed showed remarkable design innovation and a definitive move away from Gibson and Fender forms.
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Noble", appeared on the headstock of this guitar. Here citing from Wikipedia - Design engineer Nobuaki Hayashi became part of Matsumoku's engineering team in the mid-1970s. Attributed by the collaboration of the legendary guitar manufacturer Matsumoku + top luthier Nobuaki Hayashi. Just over 11 pounds but I’ve used it countless times for 2+ hour rehearsals and it’s never bothered me. I think it’s on 95% of the last Riffbrokers record. It does that 70s Les Paul thing really well. Like my Telecaster this guitar ends up on a lot of recordings. The neck is a 60s Gibson profile and not super thin like a lot of Japanese necks from the 80s. I also shaved the finish off the back of the neck and sealed it with a few coats of shellac. I replaced the bridge pickup with a Duncan Antiquity because I found the Dimarzio to be a little spiky. It also has binding over the fret ends like a real Gibson. This guitar is a weird mix of 70s and pre-70s Gibson styling – it has the small open book headstock and long neck tenon but also a 3-piece maple neck and pancake body. The “D” stands for Dimarzio which came stock on these. The LS in the model name stands for Les Paul Standard and the 600 puts it at the mid to upper end of the model’s range. Matsumoku made guitars for a shit ton of brands like Epiphone, Electra, Westbury, Univox and many others. My Aria Pro II LS600D was made in the Matsumoku factory in 1980. For some reason they never reached the level of collectibility that some of the other similarly specced Tokais, Grecos and Burnys had so they were a pretty good deal. There is often a “tiered” system where each model has multiple levels and the specs are different at each level.Īfter much perusing of eBay and various guitar nerd forums I decided to go with an Aria Pro II. Some brands were made in different factories during different years.
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Just a handful of factories were cranking out guitars for a staggering number of brands. Japanese guitar manufacturing is pretty fascinating. This is when they hit their stride and were churning out killer “bang on” knockoffs of Fender and Gibson guitars for many non-USA markets. The golden era for Japanese electric guitar manufacturing – for me anyhow – was the late 70s through the mid 80s. I decided to look into vintage Japanese Les Paul copies. The first thing I noticed was that there was no way I was going to be able to swing the sort of dough I’d need to get a 70s Gibson Les Paul at that time. Controls include one volume knob, one bridge/neck blend knob and one tone knob.
ARIA MADE IN JAPAN SERIAL NUMBER
These were on so much of the music I was listening to. Aria made the XRB series in Japan from 1986-1989, as the serial number shows, this was made in 1986 making it one of the first in production. I started daydreaming about the crunchy sound of a Les Paul. I was playing in a country/roots rock band and writing country/roots rock songs but found myself yearning to make big riffs and LOUD racket. Sometime in 2005 I became “re-obsessed” with the music that I obsessed over in my youth – bands like Mott the Hoople, Thin Lizzy, David Bowie and UFO. WARNING Each world market requires different helmet standards. My first (and only) eBay guitar purchase was a made in Japan Gibson Les Paul Knockoff. Specifications and statements on each home page refer primarily to that market and may not apply to other market’s home pages.