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On Mel's urging, I have decided to share my brand new toy with the forum. This guitar has been a year in the making and has had probably a dozen hands on it over the course of that year. Some parts will look familiar to our Mosrite purists while others may look out of place, but in the inimitable words of our very own Deke Dickerson, "Suck it." I won't give you a hard time for slapping a Kahler on your axe if you don't give me a hard time for my transgressions. God Bless America!

Adam

TERRIFFIC Adam!

(You wanna swap for my Fender Daphne blue / maple neck Strat?!)

You have a fine choice, congrats,

Paul

That is a beautiful guitar. And, if your ever caught in the wild, you can not only use it as an oar...but a fish gaff.

Adam, is that your design or Bill's? Looks great. How does it play?

gplayer wrote:That is a beautiful guitar. And, if your ever caught in the wild, you can not only use it as an oar...but a fish gaff.

Tsk tsk, Jealousy...

Here's the rundown:
The body came from the remaindered Canadian cache about five years ago and I put it away for a rainy day. The pickups (singlecoils) also came from Curtis, and knock on wood, they sounded great straight out of the box (and HOT too - 13-15K). The bridge and tailpiece came off a 1976 Mosrite Brass Rail that got into a fight with the friendly neighborhood parcel delivery service...and lost. The body was stripped (it was initially the rarest color of them all: Primer Grey!), extra routes filled, binding added, re-routed for a strat 5-way switch and a sidejack. Bill then made the neck - birdseye maple board on a flame maple neck - put a sharp V-profile on it and mated it to the body. The headstock was inspired by Marc Lipco's Bill Woods guitar. Then off to the paint shop for the nitro Seafoam on the body and amber on the neck. Then off to Bob Shade who silkscreened the logo. Then back to the paint shop to shoot the clear. Then final assembly. Then back to Bakersfield. "Say cheese, Bill!"

That is one beautiful guitar! That color really sets it off ... Hmmm, makes me want to strip one down and do another refin ....

Dennis

Not to be morbid but 50 years from now(/or sooner?) someone will be paying top dollar for that fine piece of Mosrite history. Nice work! really cool.

Yeah! i dig it! i like that you used the obscure Bill Woods headstock shape....it's not like any others!

Deke

hey, awesome guitar! by it's name, i'm assuming that is a brass rail going through the neck? I love the color, and the ideas you had, the 5 way toggle and the binding. i can't wait to start my mosrite project(s)