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Hi...yes I heard that about Carvin making the pickups. How did the
trem feel? Smooth? Was it like a Jag/Jazzmaster trem or did it have
more "reach", like a Strat trem?
I have never understood the zero-fret. You see them a lot on no-name
el-cheapo guitars. Aren't they below the nut anyway? I mean, when you
pluck an open string, the string is still fixed between the nut and
the bridge, right? Or does the string does contact the zero-fret? If
not, I can't see how they do anything.
I did run across that Australian guys web page. It looked like he did
nice work. Those Mosrite reissues from Japan also look nice, but I
agree, they are expensive. They even say "Mosrite of California" on
them!!! I think there is a company that imports them to the USA
(Guitar Punk?).
A while back a guy hired by the Mosley estate was on E-bay selling
something like 30 of the Ventures model guitars. They were supposedly
made by Semie Mosley at his last factory in the early to mid eighties
(I think). They had been in storage all this time. Almost all of them
went for over $3000...I think a few were in the $4000 range.
--- In SurfGuitar101@y..., "viktor423" <vd423@y...> wrote:
> 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.
