60s Mosrite guitar. Real interesting shape.

[Westerly Wood]

Cool story too, made it to the antique roadshow:

 

[Walter Broes]

Joe and Rose Lee Maphis had a pair of very similar looking ones, the were featured on the last page in GP magazine some time long ago. Love it!

 

[walrus]

That's so ugly I like it!

walrus

 

[adorshki]

That's exactly how I look when I flex my biceps.

 

[Rambozo96]

I remember I actually saved up money at 15 for a Mosrite. Took a little over a year and on my 16th birthday I had called all the guitar stores in Dallas/Fort Worth to see who had a Ventures model. Charlie’s Guitar Shop (famous for an SRV connection) had one. Went over there and that guitar looked beautiful but it didn’t fit me well at all. Particularly the small baby mandolin frets. That bugged me bad enough to just buy a Gretsch Corvette instead. That was almost 10 years ago and you can’t touch an old 60’s Mosrite for under $2k last time I checked so that very we may have been a mistake investment wise but I just could not live with those small frets.

 

[Uke]

I'd be afraid to sleep in the same house with it -- afraid one of the munsters would drop by to pick it up, flaming devil horns and all.

 

[Rebosbro]

Guitar with a handle bar mustache!
Paul

 

[adorshki]

I'd be afraid to sleep in the same house with it -- afraid one of the munsters would drop by to pick it up, flaming devil horns and all.

Needs it to play backwards guitar solos containing subliminal messaging.

 

[Aarfy]

Huh! I frequent Mass St music sometimes - often in and out (impulse control mostly) - next time I’ll see if this one is there - to be able to see it in person! Woah !

 

[Uke]

Needs it to play backwards guitar solos containing subliminal messaging.

"Paul is dead," I am the Walrus, etc. . . . . . . . !

 

[DrumBob]

That's so ugly I like it!

walrus

That's so ugly, I hate it.

 

[Guildedagain]

Apparently drugs were already widely available by 1960 in California. It's Rossmeisl's German carve meets Loyd Loar's crazy nautilus horns.

Also to note, it's a Bluesbird prototype, the chambered guitar with "soul holes".

 

[mushroom]

I like the shape of Mosrite guitars in general though this one leaves me scratching my head a bit, but as stated above, the thin frets and skinny neck are too much for me.

My Mosrite nerd friends though tell me there was an early association between Semie and Guild.

The story is that Semie made some trem units for Guild but Guild never used them or didn't like them and gave them back to him so he used them on early Mosrite guitars after he scratched the "Guild" logo off.

Anyway that's what I have been told but as to the stories accuracy ???

I scraped some pictures of the internet which seems to verify it.

The logo has been scratched off below.

 

[Rambozo96]

I like the shape of Mosrite guitars in general though this one leaves me scratching my head a bit, but as stated above, the thin frets and skinny neck are too much for me.

My Mosrite nerd friends though tell me there was an early association between Semie and Guild.

The story is that Semie made some trem units for Guild but Guild never used them or didn't like them and gave them back to him so he used them on early Mosrite guitars after he scratched the "Guild" logo off.

Anyway that's what I have been told but as to the stories accuracy ???

I scraped some pictures of the internet which seems to verify it.

The logo has been scratched off below.

Those are very bouncy trems for lack of a better term. Much like Kahler.

 

[adorshki]

I like the shape of Mosrite guitars in general though this one leaves me scratching my head a bit, but as stated above, the thin frets and skinny neck are too much for me.

My Mosrite nerd friends though tell me there was an early association between Semie and Guild.

The story is that Semie made some trem units for Guild but Guild never used them or didn't like them and gave them back to him so he used them on early Mosrite guitars after he scratched the "Guild" logo off.

Anyway that's what I have been told but as to the stories accuracy ???

I scraped some pictures of the internet which seems to verify it.

The logo has been scratched off below.

Yep, rings a bell, now that you mention it. Nice detective work!