![]() ![]() It's more of the equivalent of a 1994-1995 Squier Bullet which, again, isn't a bad guitar. I just don't think that's a Matsumoku-built one. I dig the Japanese stuff and the Japanese-like stuff. If I saw it hanging at Guitar Center for $70 or $80 and it was in very nice condition, I'd have bought it and I have a bunch of nice guitars. Not trying to be a negative nancy at all. ![]() I know it has some sentimental value, but it's definitely not worth much. I don't know that I'd pay $100 for a full pro super excellent setup. If it's mid-80s to the very early 90s, they may sound just fine. The pickups are likely very unexceptional if the guitar is from the mid-90s. ARIA/ARIA PRO II Aria started using serial numbers in the mid-1970s. The bad: the tuners may not be very good, it possibly has a soft plastic nut that might be a challenge to work with. I dig the 'not quite a strat' looks: the shape of the body and the headstock, the pickguard, the output cup pointing the 'wrong' way. ![]() Having said that, it could still be a very decent guitar. Aria guitars manufactured in the 1980s typically only used the first digit of the serial number to denote the date. It won't be listed on the Matsumoku site because it isn't a Matsumoku guitar. I'd have to guess the guitar wasn't made in Japan either. I haven't read up on them in many years, but I was thinking that that version of the Fullerton series guitars were from the mid '90s and those tuners and saddles tell me they weren't made in Japan. ![]()
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