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The tremolo as far as I remember, felt sort of like a Bigsby, but
with more range- not as much as a strat however. The string contacts
the zero fret, sort of takes the nuts place, and yea, I've only ever
seen them on cheap
guitars.
--- In SurfGuitar101@y..., "xarxas" <bneal@z...> wrote:
> 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.
