MMK pickups

I've been reading that Maxon (Nisshin Onpa) were contracted to supply some of the pickups for Matsumoku. Just a thought, is Maxon one of the M's in MMK? I've always been curious as to what MMK stood for?

Any ideas?

You know, I've never thought about it! Thanks for cluttering up my brain even more than it is already....

Only a pleasure John Pity we don't have any contacts in Japan!

Hey up you two!

Have you thought that there might be a really simple explanation????

Confused???

Think about it!!!!

MatsuMoKu....

Pauline :flower: :queen:

MmmmM ... oK , I get it.

I'll check over at Matt, but, what a great piece of lateral thinking; well done, Polly!!

got to say.. never occurred to me what it might stand for. i'm going with polly's version..

Yup, me too. :idea: Good thinking.

Interesting! hummmmm...... Another thing I've wondered about is the MMK's that came in the old Kramer Focus guitars. I have compared, visually, a humbucker from a old Westone against one from a old Focus. They had identical markings on them. But yet sounded completely different. With the Focus pickup being little more hot and edgy.

i recently found a mmk45 (neck). i guess it is from an aria pro II, but i don't know for sure.(i love how it looks!!!)next week i'll put it into my x390 to hear how it sounds...does anyone have experience with these? I hope i'll find a matching bridge-pickup if this one sounds good...

Huh? This mystery was solved recently by Steve777! (Eh gads!)
HERE

That's an odd one, too - would you be able to whack a meter on it and see what values it has, please? Here's the only guitars I could find with that style of p'up...

http://www.matsumoku.org/models/ariaproii/catalogs/1985/85_ap2_cat_pg12.jpg.html

The Blade MMK45 were also found on the Aria Knight Warrior guitar. I have a bridge pup and it sounds awsome...

P.

The Blade MMK45 were also found on the Aria Knight Warrior guitar. I have a bridge pup and it sounds awsome...

hehe, just tell me if you ever want to ged rid of it ...

can't find my meter atm...i hope i'll find it soon.

Sorry Silence, I just recently bought it to put it in a vantage guitar....

Here is a link to the Knight Warrior guitar:

http://www.matsumoku.org/models/ariaproii/ads/adpages/pg4.html

Also, since yours only has 2 screws to attach to the pick up ring, yours is most likely a bridge pick up that came from the Knight Warrior. The other blade pick ups that I've seen all had 3 or 4 mounting screws. Mine has the same wirering as yours, red, white and ground. Measured at 11

I could be wrong but I think you have a bridge pup?

Hope this helps!

P.

yeah, you are probably right,thank you ...i draw the conclusion that it is a neck
p/u just because the bridge p/u in my x390 has 4 wires und the neck p/u has only 3...
hehe,seems like i've got 2 bridge p/u's now since i won this one about a week ago...link

here some pics of the knight warrior bridge p/u:

Always happy to help out!

Great price on your new bridge pup!... I hope that he will send you the mounting ring with the pup since your new one has 4 screws for the height adjustment...

P.

i thought of building an adapter of a sheet of metal...but yes, perhaps i'm lucky and the seller will send the mounting ring.