Hello Rick! Nice to see you here!!
I finished the restoration about 2 years ago on my 63 Hammond/Mosrite 1963 flame guitar.
It is funny, I called Dave Meyers a good while back and told him I had the #1 of two and his #2 was the only other one to exist. He knew about that and we chatted about the guitars for a while. He informed me that he had his re finished in blue. I told him that I had done the same thing!?!
We both thought it was odd that we both re finished the guitars in blue. I asked him why he did and his answer was "because that is my favorite color".
I told him mine was in hideous desperate condition and was falling apart so, it had to be re finished. I thoughtthe guitar looked more like a wave than flames, and since he was the only guy known to have used one professionally and he played in a well known surf band, the guitar should be a "surf" guitar showing a blue wave all the way!
One more reason I had to re finish the instrument: Semie had painted the rear of the neck in 3 tone sunburst. Rich stopped Semie and said NO, it is supposed to be RED like FLAMES! So Semie left the 3 tone burst on the rear of the neck and proceeded to finish the rest of the guitar in red with black outline. It looked so weird for no reason and I couldn't figure it out when I got the guitar. So I thought, "this has to go"! Rich later filled me in on the reasoning. Ha! Funny!
Dave said he never thought of the wave aspect but he thought it was a good idea.
So enough rambling....... here is my #1 "Mosrite 63 sidejack Blue Wave", I hope you enjoy the photos!
A big thank you to Rich for all the helpful information on this rare Mosrite.
Surfs up and it's a MAD Wave!!
Bob Shade