Aria Pro II Vintage Vault

This site offers ongoing research and solutions to some of the questions about vintage Aria Pro II electric guitars and the Matsumoku factory. Key topics about serial numbers, Les Paul copy identification, what happened when, and other mysteries and myths are addressed. Discussion is intended to objectively fill gaps in the knowledge vault. Unfortunately, amongst all the good information on the internet there is also a lot of dated, false, and pure fantasy about these guitars, this factory, and other elements of the Made in Japan era. The AI wave regurgitates some of this nonsense as well, and this leads to feedback loops that plague online discussion. Hopefully some things can be cleaned up, one step at a time. There will still be some glitches in the effort, but erasing mistakes is part of finding the good answers.