Matsumoku Motto (or the Matsumoku Industrial Co., Ltd.) was founded in 1951 to manufacture sewing machine cabinets. Later I found out that beauty was made by Matsumoku. Without taking their eyes off the Paul, they sold me the near-mint Endorser for three bills. The other was the most spectacular flametop guitar I’d ever seen, an Electra Endorser (recently profiled in Vintage Guitar Magazine). One was a ‘70s Gibson Les Paul and the boys started to drool over it.
They were just about to close down when a car pulled up to the curb and out came two guitar cases. I was hanging out with Mac and Joe at the Axe Factory in Southwest Philadelphia (long gone) after work one evening. I first encountered a Matsumoku guitar (I didn’t know what it was at the time) back in the early 1990s. Vintage 1984 Quest Atak-6 MK II Electric Guitar
