mosrite forever ..........

[Veenture]

after reading your intro, I can only say.....WOW!....and welcome of course!

[LOSTVENTURE]

Tim - The only time I could afford a Mosrite back then, the only one that was available was a Joe Maphis double neck. I owned that guitar less than a day. I bought in on a Friday afternoon, played it on a job Friday night, and took it back to the store on Saturday morning. I was just a little guy back then and the double-neck was so "neck" heavy that I had trouble staying up-right and playing at the same time.
gplayer - Your icon makes me homesick. That guitar is at home and I'm at work. Sick !!!

Don

[Sarah93003]

Wow Time, having owned that many models I'll bet you could give us Mosrite newbies some great reviews to educate us on the differences, etc. That would be totally sweet! *hint, hint*

[TimR]

Sarah, I think there are others here more qualified than me to do the "educating." Some of these dudes even build them. I just owned them, played them and passed them on. I notice you are a Celebrity owner, though. The Celebrity bass is a very nice short scale bass -I had one once. I also had a Celebrity 12 string -a pretty rare bird. I guess my favorite hollow bodied Mosrite, though, is the Combo. I've had several of those. I especially liked one very early one I had, with the one piece vibrato (like the Ventures models). I've even noticed a couple of pictures on Ventures albums where they were holding Combos. It's similar to the Maphis models, only with one f-hole. In sunburst with the body binding, it goes really good with a '63 sb, bound body Ventures model. Back in the early 90's, you could find Combos & Celebrities all over for $500- 600.00. I think the value of all the non-Ventures Mosrites started climbing when everyone started seeing them on ebay.

Tim