Something funky or custom shop?

[handbrake]

So, what's the story here with three knobs and lapped guards?

[Veenture]

I ain't never seen one before..., wouldn't be at all surprised if it happens to be yet another Semie one-off custom job. VERY SPECIAL

Your's handbrake?

[Dennisthe Menace]

So, what's the story here with three knobs and lapped guards?

http://i43.tinypic.com/33e4v1c.jpg

Handbrake, I've seen another Mosrite (real fancy single neck J. Maphis?)
with the same features, but I think it was on E-Bay a while back.....

[EFElliott]

Hey Guys,

That is a 1971 Joe Maphis prototype, That model didn't make the new line up
But a beefed up version of the Combo did. The first new '71 Mark 1 standards
and the Celebrity 1's both had 2 volumes and a tone, the only one I ever saw of these
that was put together was being played by Mosrite Recording Artist "Ronnie Sessons."
I think the one in this photo is the sameone that was on eBay a while back. Might be
the one Ronnie had.
In 1972 I bought 25 complete guitars and a stack of bodies and necks from Semie,
I think I got 6 or 7 of that type of Joe Maphis bodies, Semie called them "Maphis Black
Beauties".
That little extra pickguard is a common Mosrite custom feature, All of Gene Moles custom Mosrites
had them.
Eddy

[handbrake]

So, I had to look up Ronnie Sessions. Took guitar lessons from Andy Moseley? That's pretty cool.

[Edit: I probably shouldn't have let it end there. He made a lot of great music, too. And quite a dresser! It just tells you where I'm at, as in "Gee, I wish I could take lessons from Andy Moseley."]

http://www.kcmuseum.org/stories/storyReader$294

[EFElliott]

Hey Handbrake,
Little more Mosrite History for you.
Ronnie had a long relationship with the Moseley's, from taking guitar lessons from Andy to signing with Semie and Andy's Record label Mosrite Records, he went on to sign with a major
label and had a couple national hits.

But , if you have a Mosrite built in the sixties or early seventys there is very good chance it was
put together by Ronnie's Mom," Racine Session" Semie said," Racine was the best assembally person ever", she could assemble up to 30 guitars a day.
The line was like, 2 girls putting on tuning keys, a guy bolting in necks, Racine would put on all the hardware ,wire and string it up and then on down the line to Gene Moles to tweek it in.

Eddy

[gplayer]

Now that's history you won't find on a Gibson site.

[Dennisthe Menace]

Now that's history you won't find on a Gibson site.

...what's a gibson?.....

[Veenture]

Now that's history you won't find on a Gibson site.

...or Fender site (not the ones on automobiles Dennis! )

[handbrake]

Hey Handbrake,
Little more Mosrite History for you.
Ronnie had a long relationship with the Moseley's, from taking guitar lessons from Andy to signing with Semie and Andy's Record label Mosrite Records, he went on to sign with a major
label and had a couple national hits.

But , if you have a Mosrite built in the sixties or early seventys there is very good chance it was
put together by Ronnie's Mom," Racine Session" Semie said," Racine was the best assembally person ever", she could assemble up to 30 guitars a day.
The line was like, 2 girls putting on tuning keys, a guy bolting in necks, Racine would put on all the hardware ,wire and string it up and then on down the line to Gene Moles to tweek it in.

Eddy

I was looking at the pictures in the mosrite.us gallery recently and thinking about how they all looked like an extended family of people who really loved guitars. Certainly not your average guitar maker, as others have noted.

If you haven't been to the "Good Old Memories" album or any of the others, here's the link.

http://www.mosrite.us/en/album.php?id=2

Hey Eddy, while I was looking at pictures, I saw a Celebrity with humbuckers (and a fancy neck/headstock) like your thinline from an earlier discussion. Also, there's a face reflected in the mirror that revealed itself to me after looking at the guitar for a while. It's all very cool.

http://www.mosrite.us/en/images/200811/1226051546482528837.jpg