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I don't know if it has ever been mentioned here before on Danny's forum, but here's a very interesting reaction by Del Halterman (author of the Ventures Book) in a thread over at The Undergroundfire2 forum in which an explanation is offered as to how it came to be that Semie made his necks so narrow!

http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/un ... sage/42131

I hadn't heard that! What a story, eh? That would certainly explain why Semie refused to make a wider neck, even for Don Wilson...

In thinking that Semie was very frugal , not cheap , this would make sence.

Interesting, except that Mosrite necks were narrow before Semie started using the barrel string guide. Before that he used wood guides or a notched fret.

MWaldorf wrote:Interesting, except that Mosrite necks were narrow before Semie started using the barrel string guide. Before that he used wood guides or a notched fret.

Glad you said that Mel. I've been biting my tongue holding back saying something. I guess it's a funny story though.

When I met Semie in the late fifties he was building one guitar at a time. I doubt he ever had more than three of anything much less twenty thousand. The guitar necks were even smaller than the sixties production models.

Yep, clearly Nokie's humor

well to me a mosrite neck is wide compared to an old VOX bass. those necks felt like a broom handle.