Mosrite Guitars

[monkey star]

Stockholm, they are a great band, on the Riot Salvation album they say they play Hagstrom guitars because they are Swedes although its an Epiphone in that video.

http://www.hagstromguitars.com/
http://www.myspace.com/demonssthlm

In the 90's when everything else was going on all the Scandanavian bands started playing really cool garage rock, most of them are unheard of but the big players where The Hellacopters, Gluecifer and even Turbonegro to an extent, but they where more punk rock back then.

[Posh]

Originally Posted by monkey star

Axelord/Mustang (BRDS/Holy Mountain) has one and it sounds great.

It does indeed.

[Treetop Flyer]

It looks like they take traditional models and add their own twist to them.

This is beautiful



This is weird looking but I love it



Into this too

[monkey star]

Apparently Dannelectro are doing mosrite copys for not much money, I might check that out.

[Treetop Flyer]

Did you manage to find any pics of them? Is there a particular model of Mosrite you're after?

[monkey star]

This is nice

[Treetop Flyer]

That is very stylish, some size of whammy bar. Do you know the name of that guitar? Is that a Zero fret? I remember seeing one on a Django Maccaferri and wondering why they don't put them on all guitars as it seems like a very natural thing to do

[jviz]

I've been looking at the Mosrite situation for a couple of months .. I think I have my head around the various options ...
Originals are very expensive , three to four thousand ... then there are the modern reissues ..maybe two grand... Fillmore's really.
and the clones , a grand to a grand and a half... and finally the lookalikes ... like this aria diamond with a strat type neck and tremolo , the cheapest I have found..
http://www.guitarandampshop.co.uk/ac...ic_Guitar.html
...
or this hardtail eastwood sidejack ....... slightly more
http://www.fouldsmusic.co.uk/guitars...-sidejack.html
....
This eastwood hi flyer ......
http://www.mhmusic.co.uk/eastwood-hi...-pr-16181.html
......
this is the dillion copy ...... no idea if you can score these ...
http://www.dillionguitars.com/guitar...75T/index.html

The thing that matters to me in my quest is more about the way it sounds and plays ...
... but it has to look right too. lol
The Mosrite has a 24 and threequarter inch scale neck ... a strat neck is 25 and a half ...
so the shorter scale means the strings are not strung as tight so you can use 10's and
they still bend and play 'loose'.
Plus the necks are quite skinny with thin frets .. it makes for fast playing but the shorter
scale can be a problem further up the neck if you have big clubby hands . :-)

Some of the clones use strat-length necks and trem units , so it won't be the same.
Also they won't have that zero fret so it will intonate differently with open chords ....

I would imagine the shop in vegas can get away with those prices because , well if I just won a bundle I would be VERY tempted by the 50 th anniversary model in gold metalflake .
http://www.edroman.com/detail_sheets...50th_d402.html

Going to japan is even an option for the intrepid american collector .... with a couple of

thousand ...

Kurokumo in japan (Black Cloud) make some nice copies called excellent ....
Hallmark is another manufacturer of clones , the 60's custom has good reviews ...
http://www.hallmarkguitars.com/


So this is where we are at , in the Mosrite hunt .... I'm cultivating friends on two continents
with an eye to getting them to send me one as a 'gift' .. paying duty on one of these japanese models or 'USA' made models really puts them out of reach.

I think the most I paid for a guitar so far is like 350 squids .. for an '81 ibanez gibson 335 clone. Going after a Mosrite looks like we're gonna need a bigger boat :-) jv

[monkey star]

Oh, I should also mention GPC Guitars which is Flav Giorgini from Squirtguns company, they do a Ben Weasel Signature guitar.

http://www.myspace.com/gpcguitar

[Treetop Flyer]

Hi jviz, welcome to AltNation, that's a brilliant first post, very informative.

The Aria looks not bad for the price.

I like this, the gold trim looks great but no tremolo so that's a shame



This Dillion is very very nice, quite close to the original by the looks of it. Not sure about the controls though, does it even have controls?



So how much is this dream machine then?



Did Customs not change the rule about 'Gifts'? I'm sure they still hammer it even if it's personal.

You're right about the scale length, I found out to my dismay when I got a Strat copy. I had been used to playing my mate's Les Paul and couldn't work out why it was so difficult to bend the notes on the Strat till I read about it. I think that might be why Hendrix tuned down a half step.

That GPC looks not bad, much are they looking for for that? No tremolo though, you have to get one with a tremolo

[jviz]

Thanks mate ! Yep that gold 'flake' is five thousand bucks ... Ed Roman charges a lot! But then it's vegas .. people probably are a little crazy when they are there is all I can think .

I got the impression you are after the Ramones style of Mosrite .. don't ask me why :-) ... me , I'm of an age that I am more attracted to the Ventures style .. We just got Cliff and the Shadows when I was a kid ... the Ventures were rougher and rockier ... and I only 'discovered' them recently .. and just loved the sound of the guitars.

I'm probably going to try and get one from japan ... here's a nice website in tokyo that does mail order and it uses paypal .. so it's really tempting ...

http://www.kurosawagakki.com/ ... have a look at the 66 reissues .. they're Mosrite rangers ... a lot of yen to the pound .. but it's going to be costly.

I found it really interesting how 'mad for it' the japanese are about these guitars. It seems the first time they heard electric guitars it was on surf records ... I think maybe cos I saw Hendrix live I ended up with a strat .. never really felt a yearning for the Les Paul ..

Anyway this is what I'm trying to get them to send me ... fingers crossed it's not the first sign of senile dementia :-) .. good luck in your hunt my friend. jv

[Treetop Flyer]

You seen Hendrix live I want to touch you. That must've been something special. Where?

I don't want a Mosrite guitar btw, it's Monkey Star who's into them, I only heard about them in this thread and I think they look very cool.

That red one is a beauty, £2000 is hefty though, if I had that to splash I'd go with a custom strat. Hey talking about Les Pauls and Ed Roman, have you seen what he says about them? He completely rips them apart saying they break too easily. I think he's the one with the screw loose

[jviz]

It was 1967 .... a thing called Christmas on Earth Continued ...]
http://blazplavi-guitarmusic.blogspo...istmas-on.html

We were all very wasted at the time .... Hendrix had been playing a gig somewhere else that night already .. he turned up at 3am or so and asked if he was loud enough :-) ... I seem to remember the light show was particularly good also .

Check out the band list :-) Keith West and the Tomorrow had a punch-up on stage lol .
memories eh ... jv

[jviz]

Well well what do you know / I found a couple of you tube links of the gig :-)

You Tube

You Tube

Lol look at the number of amps on stage ! jv

[PAPA LAZEROU]

Originally Posted by Treetop Flyer

Lol you crack me up

I've never heard of them before even though they started making them in 1952 and Hendrix played one??? They look very cool, I'd have the blue or green



£1000 is a bit steep, how did you hear about them Monkey Star? Have you seen one irl?

The quality (at least in the 60s) sounds top class, apparently they cost twice as much as Strats. I'm now dying to see the Double Neck that Hendrix used on Spanish Castle Magic but no joy on Google. I didn't even know he ever played a double neck. All I can see are these two, second one is lovely. Turns out it is the first one that Hendrix used on Spanish Castle, the Joe Maphis model. I added a pic of it in colour, very nice.

Tbh if i was spending a grand on a guitar...i wouldnt buy a pile of shit factory cricket bat from a shop....i would see a guy like ME and get a one-off ultimate custom guitar made for me.

Thing is...you go to a shop...you see a nice guit...you play it and like it...BUT....its the wrong colour/shape you are looking for.....The guy in the shop says...we have in in blah and blah colours...but you still dont like it, you want something special.....something different...thats where a guy like me(or any other luthier) comes in.

If ya wanna see a nice guitar, check out the Hand-made BC rich pics i have on my profile....its the BC Rich Bitch model......except with a warlock headstock(the factory made crap ones have a shitey little paddle headstock).

Shameless plug for me, i know....but fuck it....i HAVE NO SHAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!