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Posted: **Fri Jun 17, 2011 3:07 pm**

Greetings - I just welcomed this 12 string Combo into the pack today. Would love to hear comments on originality from the group. The knobs are not the M knobs - so are they stock or did the proper ones disappear? What about the truss rod cover? Anything else? Thanks
CG

Posted: **Fri Jun 17, 2011 3:38 pm**

Don't know about the knobs but the trussrod cover isn't. The rest look stock and amazingly good shape.

Posted: **Fri Jun 17, 2011 3:40 pm**

Not being an expert I'm going to go out on a limb and say that's one of the Japanese models. Not that that's a bad thing.

Posted: **Fri Jun 17, 2011 4:51 pm**

It's an American Model. The knobs are the 'Jewel' or lathed type which were used from '63 to the '65-'66 transition.
I can't tell what the devil is going on with the truss rod, but it's not original. My question is, is the t.r. cover sort of
a clear type?? And oh BTW, I'm leaning toward she's a '65 like mine. Late '65s and very early '66s had no binding
on the only 'f' hole.....

Posted: **Fri Jun 17, 2011 10:37 pm**

I was thinking those knobs looked like ones I've seen on earlier Mosrites. I'd like to know what the pot codes are. It would be easy to see.

I'd also like to know what's under that truss rod. I don't think I've ever seen three screws on a Mosrite truss rod, nor one that long. It may be hiding a blemish.

Posted: **Fri Jun 17, 2011 11:05 pm**

Pot Codes: 1346651

Posted: **Fri Jun 17, 2011 11:14 pm**

ahh - the rare Mosrite "piece of an old shoe" truss rod cover. very rare indeed.

Posted: **Fri Jun 17, 2011 11:15 pm**

Well that looks like kind of a mess doesn't it

Posted: **Fri Jun 17, 2011 11:16 pm**

Posted: **Sat Jun 18, 2011 4:45 am**

Looks like somebody decided not to bother looking for a truss rod wrench with the correct size but instead, simply went ahead 'modifying' the t.r. cavity to fit the tool at hand and so inevitably leaving behind a bad attempt at covering up a 'trail of destruction'

You could easily make a better fitting t.r. cover yourself, I'm sure

Otherwise in great shape and a rare American-history guitar...congrats!

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