Mosrite OCTAVE model?

[Deke Dickerson]

Holy crap, Adam, where'd you get that pic of the natural "Danny" mando? I've never seen that before. I think that is one of the three earliest Mosrite instruments I've seen, along with the "Johnny" guitar and Semie's tripleneck that I posted pics of way back when. The hand-drawn truss rod cover and the Gibson knobs are a dead giveaway.

I'd only seen one other octave and mando, too...when do you think that white one with the funny headstock was made, and do you think it's a real Mosrite??

Great stuff....

Deke

[dorkrockrecords]

That one sure don't look very Mosritey, but the oddly shaped trussrod cover and the exaggerated fretboard radius do look moderately like a Semie experiment. That pickup looks like it came out of a Cracker Jack box...

[Dennisthe Menace]

That one sure don't look very Mosritey, but the oddly shaped trussrod cover and the exaggerated fretboard radius do look moderately like a Semie experiment. That pickup looks like it came out of a Cracker Jack box...

This almost looks like a Teisco attempt at an electric 6 mandolin with a Mo' decal added later on, if possible......






I could of sworn that this instrument was posted on another thread on this Forum....

[Deke Dickerson]

IF the white Mando really is a Mosrite, I would put it in that early 1960-1961 phase in Bakersfield, some of that stuff is so crude it would make your head spin! Probably had a replaced pickup and maybe the pickguard, too. The truss rod cover DOES look like some of those weird truss rod covers he was making around that time though. A closer inspection of the decal would probably tell you if it was an early Bakersfield decal or a later one that somebody threw on.

Deke

[Veenture]

Do we have us here a…reversed ‘flip-over’ Mosrite Octave guitar? (Semie’s done this kind of thing before… )

Perhaps I’m sidetracking a little from the main topic (the red OCTAVE) but it seems the more I’m following a Mosrite diet lately, the more I’m beginning to think like Semie too! (chuckle); so here’s what I’ve done:
‘mirrored’ the white mando’s image in order for us to make a better visual comparison of it’s (body)shape to that of the Mosrite Octave guitar’s and for good measure I’ve thrown in a “The Ventures model” guitar too.

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Take into consideration that the pictures represent inconsistent ‘scale models’ and pictured in different angles as well but anyway, the more I look at them, the more I’m thinking that someone’s rescued an Octave body-reject (or even a VM’s damaged body) and used it in a ‘fun-type’ parts project perhaps, with- or without the master himself having a hand in it.

The neck could very well have come from Semie’s workshop too and what's interesting; notice that the iconic “M” has not been carved out in the Mosritey headstock, possibly to avoid unwanted representation of the Mosrite brand, who knows.

But as Deke already pointed out, it would be interesting to know when in the mandolin’s life, the “M” logo decal had been applied to the headstock…and more importantly, how...