Very unusual Mosrite copy - Mk. 1 neck, Mk. V pickups?

[101Volts]

As I was going through ended items in my watched list I came across this Mosrite copy with no name on the headstock.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... otohosting

At the time I didn't notice it but this is a strange Mosrite copy. I had noticed the Bigsby vibrato but at the time I hadn't noticed the neck and pickups. I'm guessing this is a guitar someone put together in their spare time but you never know...

[Dennisthe Menace]

Dillion Guitar .....

[KRamone27]

That right there is a Fullerton guitar.

[Dennisthe Menace]

That right there is a Fullerton guitar.

You had posted on an earlier thread that the Fullerton had the
Strat Bridge like the one in the pic you had posted from E-Bay.
[quote]KRamone27 wrote:
Now I found it, here it is one on ebay.

Didn't the Dillion have the tune-o-matic bridge
w/Bigsby, and also the straight Neck P'up?
And the Fullerton had the angle Neck P'up?

[KRamone27]

Didn't the Dillion have the tune-o-matic bridge
w/Bigsby, and also the straight Neck P'up?
And the Fullerton had the angle Neck P'up?

The early fullertons did have an angled neck pickup and a strat style tremolo but the newer models did have a bigsby style bridge with a t-o-m bridge. But the main thing that separates the fullertons from the dillions is the neck. If you compare the necks you'll notice a big cosmetic difference, that being that the fretboard heels are rounded vs. dillions that are more pointy like a mosrite. Pretty much everything on a dillion is close to a real mosrite where as if you compare the headstock you'll see what I'm talking about. Plus the newer fullertons started using block inlays also.

[Dennisthe Menace]

Didn't the Dillion have the tune-o-matic bridge
w/Bigsby, and also the straight Neck P'up?
And the Fullerton had the angle Neck P'up?

The early fullertons did have an angled neck pickup and a strat style tremolo but the newer models did have a bigsby style bridge with a t-o-m bridge. But the main thing that separates the fullertons from the dillions is the neck. If you compare the necks you'll notice a big cosmetic difference, that being that the fretboard heels are rounded vs. dillions that are more pointy like a mosrite. Pretty much everything on a dillion is close to a real mosrite where as if you compare the headstock you'll see what I'm talking about. Plus the newer fullertons started using block inlays also.

OK, I'm following you so far . But are you saying that the Fullerton is no longer
using the angled position Neck pickup? Because the PIC that I saw had 2 straight
pickups, pretty much like a MARK V (or like the Dillions were) ..........

[Veenture]

As I was going through ended items in my watched list I came across this Mosrite copy with no name on the headstock.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... otohosting

Interesting. I had a look at it in the link...wonder if the dogs came with it too...

[mosman]

Yeah that's a Fullerton MoVibe which has been fitted with a Bigsby and Mosrite PU covers. I scored an unaltered one a few months ago. From what I've seen of these most people scrape the easily removeable logo off the headstock and make all sorts of misleading claims about them. I actually notified this seller when it was listed as to what he had but he wasn't too interested saying he was disabled and just fixed guitars up and sold them as a hobby.
It looks to me that the cover on the bridge PU isn't a very good fit ( which isn't surprising if he jammed it on the pre-existing Humbucker ) and is a tad warped. Maybe it's the reflection or whatever but that's how it looks to me.
Bill.

http://www.myspace.com/rocks1977
http://www.myspace.com/kamikazekits

[KRamone27]

Didn't the Dillion have the tune-o-matic bridge
w/Bigsby, and also the straight Neck P'up?
And the Fullerton had the angle Neck P'up?

The early fullertons did have an angled neck pickup and a strat style tremolo but the newer models did have a bigsby style bridge with a t-o-m bridge. But the main thing that separates the fullertons from the dillions is the neck. If you compare the necks you'll notice a big cosmetic difference, that being that the fretboard heels are rounded vs. dillions that are more pointy like a mosrite. Pretty much everything on a dillion is close to a real mosrite where as if you compare the headstock you'll see what I'm talking about. Plus the newer fullertons started using block inlays also.

OK, I'm following you so far . But are you saying that the Fullerton is no longer
using the angled position Neck pickup? Because the PIC that I saw had 2 straight
pickups, pretty much like a MARK V (or like the Dillions were) ..........

Correct Dennis, the newer fullertons have the two straight pickups. And the Dillion necks are closer to a real mosrite in appearance than the fullertons. I think they had to make them different to prevent lawsuits.

[KRamone27]

It looks to me that the cover on the bridge PU isn't a very good fit ( which isn't surprising if he jammed it on the pre-existing Humbucker ) and is a tad warped. Maybe it's the reflection or whatever but that's how it looks to me.

Hey Bill those do look like actual Mosrite pickups right down to the pickup rings.