April Birthdays 
The original idea for these guitars came from Maui Malara, rhythm guitar player for our band The Aquasonics. He asked Matt Flaherty of Texas Toast Custom Guitars Texas Toast Custom Guitars here in Colorado (and former bass player for the Aquasonics) if he would build him a guitar based on a Mosrite. Matt, being the nice guy he is, said sure, and promptly called me and asked if I would like one too. I said "Sure, but I'd like to help with them." So, on a cold winter day in December of 2013, we set out to construct two Mosrite looking guitars.
The original plan was to possibly have these ready by April/ 2014, so the band could use them at the Viva Las Vegas car show, which we were playing that year. We didn't even get close to finished, and VLV came and went, and came and went in 2015 as well.
Matt will tell you that I did most of the work on these, which I guess technically is correct, but he guided me through the whole process, and did a lot of showing me how he would do it without actually doing the work... and sometimes he would just do the work. 
Life got in the way for a while, but we finally finished them this week, a short 1 year, and 9 months after we started!
One of the big challenges on this project was that despite the two guitars looking similar, they are quite different. We each had things we wanted, which meant that these were essentially two separate builds after the first few steps.
Maui's guitar - he wanted p-90's, a 25.5" scale neck with medium jumbo frets and a 9.5" radius, A more Hallmark looking German carve, and a traditional looking Mosrite tremolo and bridge. He also used Sperzel locking tuners, and custom Iron Cross inlays in the fingerboard.
I wanted mine to be a Jazzmaster in Mosrite clothing - except for the neck. I went with a 24.75" scale, vintage frets, and a 7.25" radius. custom Curtis Novak pickups that look like Mosrite pickups, but are in fact Jazzmaster pickups, and a more Fender-y tremolo and bridge. I dropped the big bucks on Mastery parts.
Both have black binding on the body and neck, and were painted in a custom one-off "Aquasonics Blue" color that we mixed.
They turned out great, and I can't wait to get to play them live next month! They both play great, but are distinctively different sounding, as you would expect.
I also painted a J-Bass to match -
Matt's shop is a great place! I learn so much every time I go - and I have a great time with him and the others that are always there. I can hardly wait for the next projects!
Here's some pictures.
"You can't tell where you're going if you don't know where you've been"
