t-bone wrote:hi and welcome, Ed. it’s great to have you here. your A- series Celebrity and blonde Combo are both very much in my sweet spot. i am very happy that they have found you. let’s hope that the Combo comes back rocking. i might add that a neck shim on a Mosrite can go a long way with playability. even though there is not a ton of action here, Austin does a great job of keeping the home fires burning. rock on and thanks for sharing!
Thanks for that. Traffic's low here, but I'm seeing it gradually pick up more steam. Though it does sometimes feel like starting a steam car in the dead of winter, without any electric heating elements installed in the engine.
Ed_Shed wrote:Ayyyy, thank you for the replies.
Well, I have to say, I just got the Combo back from the shoppe, annnnnnd it still just sounds kind of flat to me. I'm rejiggering my expectations for it though, so I'm going to learn how to appreciate it for what it is. Because the fact is, I'm a MosHead now, I've got the fever to get as wide a variety of Mosrites as possible. (Double-neck 6 & 12 str, I'm lookin your way.) I just love my Ventures and even the MINI so much.
And, in STARK contrast to the Combo, I just received this beautiful baby yesterday, a very refurbished hollow body. It was sold as an 1966 Celebrity II but I'm not sure that's accurate. It appears the neck engraving is A0698. Regardless, I told the guy after a few hours of playing it that I wouldn't care if he came back and said it was a $20 rip-off from China because it just sounds that amazing. Immediate love!
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You're welcome.
I've never played a Combo myself, so I can't speak much about them. But as I said earlier, a 350 or a Blues Bender or an S.M. model might be in the cards for you. The problem is finding one for sale since they're so scarce - the 350 had maybe 400 made, the Blues Bender about 205 or 225, and the S.M. may not even have had 84 as I was told - I've seen them
so rarely. These numbers are all guesses, though.
I think you have a Celebrity I model, not a II. The number isn't accurate to the Celebrity IIs, which usually start with an M, but I've seen some other letters for various Celebrities, and I haven't yet updated the lists. But I can't tell for sure if you have a I or a II from here; it's the body depth that will tell. The I is something thicker than 2 inches, the II is 1 7/8".
- Austin