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I have one of the Wilson Bros "Mosrite copies" and
it's OK...... It's nicely made and finished and I've
set it up to play like butter but it lacks
something....I think it lacks character.....If you
pick up a Strat, it plays/feels and sounds like a
Strat. The same goes for a Tele, Jaguar or my all
time fave, the Jazzmaster. Each in their own way have
a certain personality. The Wilson Bros is kinda like
a Gibson in that it's cool and it's sweet playing but
not inspiring, if you catch my drift....However it is
reasonably priced and it does look cool and it feels
good to hold it so......for around $450 it's probably
not a bad second guitar to carry out to a gig... I
plan to drop a set of Vintage RI Jaguar Pickups in it
and see what falls out....Probably replace the pots
with 500K or 1 Megs and try to make an "improvement".
I'll keep everyone posted. Best Reverbs, Eddie (the
tinkerer) Katcher
--- Shawn Martin <> wrote:
> --- In ,
> "supertwangreverb"
> <supertwangreverb@y...> wrote:
> > Thanks Shawn, too bad there isn't a cheap store
> like Ishibashi.
> > Man, Ed's prices are so unbelivable. The one time
> I was at his
> > store I remember the Mosrites as being off
> limits...pretty much all
> > the guitars there are off limits.
>
>
> There are several Mosrite copies out there. I have
> an Eastwood
> High-Flyer but it doesn't have exactly the same feel
> as a Mosrite.
> The body is thicker and doesn't have a pencil-thin
> neck like the old
> Mosrites. I have a feeling that they're made by the
> same company that
> makes the Jay Turser Mosrite clones. I also am
> leary of the Dillions.
> They look nice but I see more mediocre reviews than
> favorable ones,
> and that goes for their Jazzmaster copies as well.
> You might also
> want to look at the Wilson Bros models. If Les
> Fradkin is around
> here, I'm sure he can give a good description of
> them. They appear to
> not have the reverse offset body like Mosrites. I
> have a hunch that
> Don Wilson and Bob Bogle had them designed with a
> wider neck, like a
> Jazzmaster, since both of them always seemed to go
> back to Jazzmasters.
>
>
> Shawn Martin
>
>
> Life is short. Play for the music. Wear your heart
> on your sleeve.
>
> So I wouldn't get a big head, I was given the gift
> of a handicap to
> keep me in constant touch with my limitations
> -Apostle Paul
>
>
>
>
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The best Wilson Bros. guitars are the unreasonably priced VCM 2003 and the even
more unreasonably priced VCM 2002. I don't go for the VM-75 or 65 but others
swear by 'em. They are coming out with a VM-110 that looks very good and will
sell for about 600 - 700 clams.
-Marty
----- Original Message -----
From: John McCorvey
To:
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 5:58 PM
Subject: Re: [SurfGuitar101] Re: Mosrite Dealers?/Wilson Bros. "copy"
I have one of the Wilson Bros "Mosrite copies" and
it's OK...... It's nicely made and finished and I've
set it up to play like butter but it lacks
something....I think it lacks character.....If you
pick up a Strat, it plays/feels and sounds like a
Strat. The same goes for a Tele, Jaguar or my all
time fave, the Jazzmaster. Each in their own way have
a certain personality. The Wilson Bros is kinda like
a Gibson in that it's cool and it's sweet playing but
not inspiring, if you catch my drift....However it is
reasonably priced and it does look cool and it feels
good to hold it so......for around $450 it's probably
not a bad second guitar to carry out to a gig... I
plan to drop a set of Vintage RI Jaguar Pickups in it
and see what falls out....Probably replace the pots
with 500K or 1 Megs and try to make an "improvement".
I'll keep everyone posted. Best Reverbs, Eddie (the
tinkerer) Katcher
--- Shawn Martin <> wrote:
> --- In ,
> "supertwangreverb"
> <supertwangreverb@y...> wrote:
> > Thanks Shawn, too bad there isn't a cheap store
> like Ishibashi.
> > Man, Ed's prices are so unbelivable. The one time
> I was at his
> > store I remember the Mosrites as being off
> limits...pretty much all
> > the guitars there are off limits.
>
>
> There are several Mosrite copies out there. I have
> an Eastwood
> High-Flyer but it doesn't have exactly the same feel
> as a Mosrite.
> The body is thicker and doesn't have a pencil-thin
> neck like the old
> Mosrites. I have a feeling that they're made by the
> same company that
> makes the Jay Turser Mosrite clones. I also am
> leary of the Dillions.
> They look nice but I see more mediocre reviews than
> favorable ones,
> and that goes for their Jazzmaster copies as well.
> You might also
> want to look at the Wilson Bros models. If Les
> Fradkin is around
> here, I'm sure he can give a good description of
> them. They appear to
> not have the reverse offset body like Mosrites. I
> have a hunch that
> Don Wilson and Bob Bogle had them designed with a
> wider neck, like a
> Jazzmaster, since both of them always seemed to go
> back to Jazzmasters.
>
>
> Shawn Martin
>
>
> Life is short. Play for the music. Wear your heart
> on your sleeve.
>
> So I wouldn't get a big head, I was given the gift
> of a handicap to
> keep me in constant touch with my limitations
> -Apostle Paul
>
>
>
>
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