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Well I've played the 'real' thing, only it was a Mosrite Celebrity
not a Ventures model. Same pick-ups and tremolo, only it's a hollow
body. The zero-fret is supposed to help intonation. The mosely
tremolo works on the same principal as a Bigsby. Mosrite pick-ups
are basically p-90's, very hot, they put out around 13k as opossed to
a strat output which is around 6k! Someone told me that mosrite pick-
ups were made by Carvin, but I don't know if this is true or not.
The Japanese re-issues are made of basswood, which is not correct.
For some reason the Japanese love basswood- all the MIJ Fender re-
issues are made of basswood as well. Some say basswood isn't that
different tone wise from alder or ash, but I really don't know, all I
can say is my MIJ strat sounds like a strat. The really ironic thing
is that the re-issue Mosrites cost about the same as the orignals.
Also, there's a guy in Austrailia that makes handmade replicas for
about a thousand bucks. I don't remember the site url but his company
is called Tym's guitars.
