![]() If it is a bolt-on neck Memphis guitar it is probably Korean and built after the 1988 burn-date. If it is a set-neck Memphis guitar it was probably built before 1988 and is probably Matsumoku.Ģ. So just because it is a single piece of wood does not mean it is not Matsumoku.ġ. However, some Matsumoku guitars have single-piece wood necks. That is usually a dead giveaway that they are Matsumoku. 3-pieces give the neck more stability (supposedly). Quite a few Matsumoku guitars have a 3-piece wood neck. I have seen many advertised on CL and Ebay, and none of the bolt-on models definitively were proven to be MIJ. My two were post-1988 and therefore were not, and will state on the guitar or sometimes just a label that they are built in Korea. I have no idea if any bolt-on neck models were built by Matsumoku. The Memphis bolt-on models I owned were laminated models, and the set-neck model was a pretty sizeable block of wood (much like the early Gibson Les Paul models). Price on this maybe 125-250 depending on how nice it is. I had two of these (Les Paul varieties), and they were both nice guitars and both Korean. Any Memphis guitars built after 1988 were obviously not Matsumoku.Ģ. ![]() Matsumoku also built guitars for Aria, Westbury, Electra, Concord (I think), and at times Gibson & Fender (the non-U.S. Matsumoku factory burned down in (I think) 1988. I've seen set-neck Memphis Les Pauls going for $750 on Ebay. The set-neck models also weigh quite a bit. ![]() Matsumoku had very high quality guitars, and these command a high price. Set-Neck Memphis Les Paul - built before 1988 were built by Matsumoku of Japan. Memphis guitars came from two places as far as I know:ġ.
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