The Guitar Gallery Forums - The Guitar Legacy of Matsumoku

I've had this guitar for a couple months and it plays and sounds like a dream but isn't really my cup of tea. I found it on the cheap over Craigslist and the guy I bought it from was more clueless than me about it. He says it was purchased in the '60's and that his older sister was the only owner. I guess she owed him money and gave him the guitar in it's place.

As you'll see in the pictures, it has white perloid accents that have a yellow tinge to them which makes me believe it could be that old. Inside the cavity there's a little paper note with the serial and model number, neither of which are visible. It doesn't look like someone tampered with it, that it wore away due to age, it honestly looks as though nothing has ever been printed on it.

The best thing I can do is include the pictures, I'll tell you more if I can and if you can help me figure out what model number and what year it is; I'll totally do something nice for you. I don't know, record a song for you, draw you a comic, send you some treats, give you one of my wife's recipes; just something to brighten your day.

I can always give you more pictures if you'd like more than the three here.

I'm certainly the farthest thing from an authority on these guitars but while trying to find out more info about my Diamond "Tele" I came across this pic of a Conrad (link below) that looks like your guitar only with a whammy bar instead of a trapeze tail piece. I've seen the guitar you have with a few different names on the headstock and had one "made by" Heit back in the day. Hope this helps a bit.

http://www.vintaxe.com/cgi-bin/vintaxe_viewer.pl?guitar_conrad2pic&japanese_guitar_conrad2pic