Three13
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I have a funny feeling that I'm just about the only person here who loves Mosrites. If not, here is one of the classics, a late 1963 Mosrite Ventures.
Originally, this design was made as the Joe Maphis Model, but in 1963, a session player named Gene Moles lent his new Mosrite Joe Maphis Model to Nokie Edwards of the Ventures. The Ventures had decided that they wanted to have signature instruments made by someone, and Nokie loved Gene's guitar, so he approached Semie Moseley at the Mosrite "factory", which was actually a tin shack in Bakersfield.
Semie took the endorsement. The Ventures invested a tremendous amount of capital into Mosrite, allowing him to build a real factory, and the Mosrite Joe Maphis Model became the Mosrite Ventures Model. The first 30 or so guitars shipped in late 1963 and, like 1954 Strats, have somewhat inconsistent features.
This example (Serial #0025) is fairly late in the run and has a set neck (normal for the model until spring of '64) with a metal plate bolted on a la Fender, perhaps to strengthen the neck joint. This particular arrangement is only seen on a few guitars in the 002X series, from what I can tell...
Originally, this design was made as the Joe Maphis Model, but in 1963, a session player named Gene Moles lent his new Mosrite Joe Maphis Model to Nokie Edwards of the Ventures. The Ventures had decided that they wanted to have signature instruments made by someone, and Nokie loved Gene's guitar, so he approached Semie Moseley at the Mosrite "factory", which was actually a tin shack in Bakersfield.
Semie took the endorsement. The Ventures invested a tremendous amount of capital into Mosrite, allowing him to build a real factory, and the Mosrite Joe Maphis Model became the Mosrite Ventures Model. The first 30 or so guitars shipped in late 1963 and, like 1954 Strats, have somewhat inconsistent features.
This example (Serial #0025) is fairly late in the run and has a set neck (normal for the model until spring of '64) with a metal plate bolted on a la Fender, perhaps to strengthen the neck joint. This particular arrangement is only seen on a few guitars in the 002X series, from what I can tell...