mosriteforum.com

Hi everyone,

My name is Samantha.

I'm a luthier in Denver CO.
A few months ago I had a customer bring me a beautiful mosrite ventures guitar.
Then he brought me another one, sweet!
They just needed setups and I must say they both set up quite nicely. (these guitars are a breeze to work with)

Yesterday he brought what he says he believes to be '77 and the kicker, it's a bass!
I play bass more so then guitar so this one has me super exited.
It's amazing, even with it's worn frets and a bit too much relief it actually plays quite well.
It really makes me want one for myself lol.

Now the main reason I joined up here, other then to look at all these sweet guitars
is because this 77 has had a rough life.
At some point a previous owner did a real hack job of refinishing it,
it has nicks and gouges galore and is in need of some serious love.
The plan is to do a full on restoration and return this beauty to what it once was.

Now, I could just repaint it for him replace the missing parts with new and call it a day but I'm a perfectionist, so it has to be done right and that is why I am here.

I'm hoping to first do as much research as I can and have a solid plan before starting.
I've already disassembled it and taken a few pictures and hope that I can start a thread here detailing what needs to be done, what information I'm lacking and then once I get started a step by step documentation of what's being done.

To close I would just like to thank you all for letting me into your wonderful forum, you guys are much appreciated.

~Samantha.

Welcome to the forum. Would love to see some of your work.

Hey thanks,
Here's a couple of my scratch builds.




These where built back in 2003 when I was in school at midwest guitar in St. Louis MO.
Since then I've really just focused more on the repair and restoration side of it.
I just really like the idea of bringing things back to life.
Here are a couple more recent projects.

Nice to have another lady join the forum...and a luthier too! Welcome, Samantha, interesting builds you have there; Semie Moseley would've been proud of that curve in the bass horn, as well as the headstock outline of that bass in your first two pics
The "Search" feature could (also) be of assistance to find the info you need, good luck, we love builds!
-Paul

Welcome to the forum !!

Nice basses the first one looks like Les Claypools' bass

Welcome, Samantha! Great to have you here, and I really like the blonde acoustic - nice lines!
Dennis

Hi! Welcome to the forum.

I'm an amateur builder, and continually "farm" this website for tips on the why's and how's of building guitars... That said, I noticed an interesting tilt on the bridge in your first photo... Is this some secret way to make a string sound better...or?

I must also comment on the artistic touch you have added to these guitars...very nice!!!

Welcome Samantha!

olrocknroller wrote:I noticed an interesting tilt on the bridge in your first photo... Is this some secret way to make a string sound better...or?

Good eye! I also noticed the tailpiece not placed at 90 degrees to the strings and decided it must be intentional. Gibson and other brands have 'tilted' bridges too, on their guitars...intentionally but I have never noticed it on a bass guitar tailpiece before