Can anyone identify this symbol inside a guitar?

[unforgiven]

Might as well throw one of my wife in also.  This is actually the white Suzuki GSX-R 600 in garage picture above.  I switch it over to full race trim for her for the track.

[sneaky]

Matsumoku made a lot of guitars at one time in Japan...maybe thats the company you`re thinking of?
Wikipedia eh...the last place I go to for information.

[Danny]

Matsumoku made a lot of guitars at one time in Japan...maybe thats the company you`re thinking of?
Wikipedia eh...the last place I go to for information.

That's the company. Have you seen all the info. that has been put in Wiki from this forum lately?   ST is doing most of it and he is doing an excellent job. I know people can say anything they want there and sometimes it can't be corrected when it's amiss.

[Danny]

Might as well throw one of my wife in also.  This is actually the white Suzuki GSX-R 600 in garage picture above.  I switch it over to full race trim for her for the track.

The only motorcycle riding my wife has done is with her arms wrapped around me. We sure had a lot of fun for the short while I still had my old boxer R100RT BMW touring bike. We sold it after one year of marriage and used the $ to take a nice trip to Belize.
     We gained a son-in-law from that trip eventually, and a wonderful grandson. Not a bad deal for a bimmer pushing 300,000 miles.

[unforgiven]

  The only motorcycle riding my wife has done is with her arms wrapped around me. We sure had a lot of fun for the short while I still had my old boxer R100RT BMW touring bike. We sold it after one year of marriage and used the $ to take a nice trip to Belize.
     We gained a son-in-law from that trip eventually, and a wonderful grandson. Not a bad deal for a bimmer pushing 300,000 miles.

Yes Sir!  Can't argue with that outcome at all.

[flatlander]

  The only motorcycle riding my wife has done is with her arms wrapped around me. We sure had a lot of fun for the short while I still had my old boxer R100RT BMW touring bike. We sold it after one year of marriage and used the $ to take a nice trip to Belize.
     We gained a son-in-law from that trip eventually, and a wonderful grandson. Not a bad deal for a bimmer pushing 300,000 miles.

?? This sounds like a longer than 1 sentence story. You gained a son in law from a trip taken right after you were married? (The original question about guitar has been covered no?) Spin one.

[gotahifit]

Never too old my friend!  I'm 45 this year and hope I have a lot left in me.  This is a friend of mine that's spectacular crash was caught on camera last year and our group made it into a motivational poster for him.  You can see him sliding in the dirt off to the left.  Tom was 72 in this picture, took the ambulance out and said it was his last time.  He lied.  He's already been back and I'll be at the track with him in May.

I'm glad to hear your friend came through it okay (oh boy did I get a flashback on that one!)!

I have friends that still ride, but I sold my last bike about 10 years ago...  here's a couple of pix (which will date my riding years) ..first is the guy that got me into it in 1966 Isle of Mann WINNER, Bill Boyd.  And a photo of me on my first decent bike in 1967.


The first photo below is where I did most of my early learning, and the crew that I used to ride with (more current photo of them) taken on our Sunday Morning Ride along the coastal 101 to Point Reyes.



I raced from 1968 through 1974. Then I was hit from the side as I went through an intersection, spent a year learning to walk all over again, but was riding in the next year.. no racing just casual rides.  Miss it, but things change.

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[unforgiven]

That is incredible!  I watch the Isle of Mann every year and it's on my bucket list to see it in person.  If you don't know what the Isle of Mann is, go Google it.  It is heart stoppinp!  I would kill for curves like the ones in that picture.  I live in Florida so literally I have to about 2 descent curve is 50 miles of riding.  My wife and I go up to Asheville three of four times a year to ride the Blue Ridge Parkway and the mountain twisties that branch off of it.  We trailer them them the 500 miles there.  Thanks for sharing that!

[gotahifit]

That is incredible!  I watch the Isle of Mann every year and it's on my bucket list to see it in person.  If you don't know what the Isle of Mann is, go Google it.  It is heart stoppinp!  I would kill for curves like the ones in that picture.  I live in Florida so literally I have to about 2 descent curve is 50 miles of riding.  My wife and I go up to Asheville three of four times a year to ride the Blue Ridge Parkway and the mountain twisties that branch off of it.  We trailer them them the 500 miles there.  Thanks for sharing that!

Here in CA there are A LOT of curves to deal with!  You'd love it...     In the last photo of my last post, at the far right holding a sign, is the SON of Bill Boyd, Wade (who I've known since he was a child).. who I also raced with one time (tandum 250 miler on the 4th of July (1969) at Cotati Speedway, CA).  This photo was taken on the Sunday Morning Memorial Ride after his Father died in 2008, he rode right up to the end (in his 80's), and did it with only ONE LEG which he lost when a Buick crossed center divider and hit him head on. Memorial pix below:



You can see a lot of Wade on YOUTUBE.   He turned out to be a character usually sporting purple hair as he raced.  There are a lot of other Wade Boyd vids on Youtube too, just search Wade Boyd.  You can also find him on FB.  Do a search and he'll be the first one (can't miss him on the bike).

He's a "poor man's" racer, does 99% of all the work himself... no cushy ride there.  He does it because he loves it and always has!

OH and NICE bikes!!!!

g

[SMan]

Well now that this is totally off topic here is an "Elevation" picture from last summer...

(I have to say I'm loving the bike pictures. )

[cc407]

[Danny]

  OK.... this has gone far enuff kiddo's   I actually stopped by Lone Star BMW today and they had an old R-100 RT sitting out front. It only had 43,000 miles on it! That ain't even broke in yet. I bet the owner never did any iron butt riding and I could just sense that it would like to go to Sturgis. (not during the "fake biker rally" though.)  There's just something wrong in my book about taking a $20,000 bike by truck, plane or whatever to Sturgis and rolling it out to sit there and watch others gaze at it. I never cared for streamers on my handle bars and baseball cards in my spokes when I was a kid either.
    Give me a bike stripped down to nothing extra but me and a country path through trees and hills and running next to a drop off into a river. Then I would haul a** and go as fast as I possibly could to see if I could do it. And I could.
     I think the long distance riding out across the Great Plains is just part of the country cowboy kid who wants to be freed from the loneliness  of the crowd by "solitude" and and the "great wide open".
     My wife and my best friend years ago are the only ones to accompany on those trips. I would lend my other BMW touring bike to him. It was a newer K100 LT. We went to Key west once from Austin together. Man he don't know how to ride
                                  Where was I? Oh yea. "Lone Star BMW, Austin, Texas. And the prettiest Royal Blue R100 RT I have seen in quite a while. I threw a leg over it and knew right then a custom seat would need to be ordered. Other than that, I think I would be quite happy with it.


                                So y'all can stop anytime your ready... let's talk lawsuits and funky guitars.

[sneaky]

pardon my interrupting the motorcycle talk to add something for the original poster...I asked a Korean student of mine, she says it`s not Korean either. So...theres the monkey wrench I just wanted to toss into the mix.

[Randy_R]

 OK.... this has gone far enuff kiddo's  I actually stopped by Lone Star BMW today and they had an old R-100 RT sitting out front. It only had 43,000 miles on it! That ain't even broke in yet. I bet the owner never did any iron butt riding and I could just sense that it would like to go to Sturgis. (not during the "fake biker rally" though.)  There's just something wrong in my book about taking a $20,000 bike by truck, plane or whatever to Sturgis and rolling it out to sit there and watch others gaze at it. I never cared for streamers on my handle bars and baseball cards in my spokes when I was a kid either.
   Give me a bike stripped down to nothing extra but me and a country path through trees and hills and running next to a drop off into a river. Then I would haul a** and go as fast as I possibly could to see if I could do it. And I could.
    I think the long distance riding out across the Great Plains is just part of the country cowboy kid who wants to be freed from the loneliness  of the crowd by "solitude" and and the "great wide open".
    My wife and my best friend years ago are the only ones to accompany on those trips. I would lend my other BMW touring bike to him. It was a newer K100 LT. We went to Key west once from Austin together. Man he don't know how to ride
                                 Where was I? Oh yea. "Lone Star BMW, Austin, Texas. And the prettiest Royal Blue R100 RT I have seen in quite a while. I threw a leg over it and knew right then a custom seat would need to be ordered. Other than that, I think I would be quite happy with it.


                               So y'all can stop anytime your ready... let's talk lawsuits and funky guitars.

It's waiting for you Danny....         

[unforgiven]

pardon my interrupting the motorcycle talk to add something for the original poster...I asked a Korean student of mine, she says it`s not Korean either. So...theres the monkey wrench I just wanted to toss into the mix.

Thanks!   

[Danny]

It's waiting for you Danny....         

That is the one. Mine was an older model but looked almost the same and I painted it a deep maroon color. I also had a custom seat for long trips. That seat is nice but not quite right.
                Enablers

[flatlander]

pardon my interrupting the motorcycle talk to add something for the original poster...I asked a Korean student of mine, she says it`s not Korean either. So...theres the monkey wrench I just wanted to toss into the mix.

Thanks!   

The symbol is obviously an early motorcycle design where rider sat in middle of one large wheel. As braking quickly became an issue, the design was improved upon.

[Danny]

The symbol is obviously an early motorcycle design where rider sat in middle of one large wheel. As braking quickly became an issue, the design was improved upon.

Well there ya have it. It must be a "Yamaha".    Case closed.

[unforgiven]

Well there ya have it. It must be a "Yamaha".    Case closed.

I think that pretty much settles it! 

[prof_stack]

The headstock reminds me of an old Yamaki dread I sold a couple years ago. 
I think they got a lawsuit for having a name too close to Yamaha.     (no, I'm not joking)

Speaking of motorcycles, I put 124 miles on this '05 Italian beauty today: