In the mid 1960’s the companies teamed up to produce instruments under the Guyatone brand. Aria’s expertise was in domestic production, exporting and sales, while Matsumoku’s primary concern was production. In the early 1970’s Gibson made a bold move to move their production of Epiphone guitars to Japan.

Six digit serial numbers date from the 70s, covering '71 through '80. Seven digit serial numbers date from the 80s, covering the period '81 through '90.

The first digit gives the year. Yours is a seven digit, starting 7, making it a 1987. There weren't many models in the XRB series, but what ones were manufactured appeared between '87 and '89. To the best of my knowledge these were manufactured in Japan, although Aria did move a large portion of its production to Korean at this time, '87 onwards. Edited February 15, 2010 by noelk27.

I think I'm right in thinking if the neck plate doesn't read Made In Japan, then it's Korean. Matsumoku stopped building Aria Pro (or anything else) in 1987, and I would expect that economic conditions would have meant that only the higher-end Arias would have continued being Japanese-made. Apropos of nothing, early Matsumoku serials, eg on the 'Steel Adjustable Neck' plates, appear to be random & not dateable.

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Early (pre 75-ish) set & through-neck instruments appear not to have serial numbers at all. [url='Aria Archive pages[/url] [i]imply[/i] that these are Korean. There's also a poor quality [url='Catalogue Scan[/url] here. As Jon rightly states, 1987 marks the end of the Matsumoku plant - although precisely [i]when[/i] it actually closed seems to be rather elusive (it was ownedby Singer & they were having financial difficulties.) Exactly what got made where in this transitional year is open to debate. I used to own a Korean-built Magna Series 5 string & it shared several design features with your XRB - notably the 'conventional' pickups, 'bent tin' bridge & the small dot markers. I don't see any string trees, does your headstock have a backwards slant as well? Gathers vxd 055c manual.

Also, is the neck painted or clear coated? The nearest thing to the XRB in the [url='Catalogue[/url] are the RSB/Straycat models which have a very different flavour - pointy horns, soapbar pickups, die cast bridges, larger dot markers etc. - all of which shout Matsumoku. My money's on yours being a 1987 Korean-built example. [quote name='Bloodaxe' post='746452' date='Feb 15 2010, 08:20 PM'][url='Aria Archive pages[/url] [i]imply[/i] that these are Korean. There's also a poor quality [url='Catalogue Scan[/url] here. As Jon rightly states, 1987 marks the end of the Matsumoku plant - although precisely [i]when[/i] it actually closed seems to be rather elusive (it was ownedby Singer & they were having financial difficulties.) Exactly what got made where in this transitional year is open to debate.

I used to own a Korean-built Magna Series 5 string & it shared several design features with your XRB - notably the 'conventional' pickups, 'bent tin' bridge & the small dot markers. I don't see any string trees, does your headstock have a backwards slant as well? Also, is the neck painted or clear coated? The nearest thing to the XRB in the [url='Catalogue[/url] are the RSB/Straycat models which have a very different flavour - pointy horns, soapbar pickups, die cast bridges, larger dot markers etc. - all of which shout Matsumoku. My money's on yours being a 1987 Korean-built example. Pete[/quote] thanks pete some really good info there well its certainly lacking the 'made in japan' stamp on the scratchplate,no string trees, the neck does slant back, and the neck is painted in the same finish as the body.by the sounds of it Kim Jong-il may have played a part in its construction.