NMGD - New Mosrite-ish Guitar Day!

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NMGD - New Mosrite-ish Guitar Day!

Postby FritzCat » Wed May 25, 2011 7:26 pm

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It's a '66 Noble, sort of a japanese Combo-wannabe. I've been looking for one of these for a couple years, I've only seen pics of 5 or 6 of them. As far as I can tell it's all original, and came with the original chipboard case. Just has a few nicks/chips, minor fretwear, no corrosion anywhere. It plays great with about the lowest action I've ever seen. The humbuckers actually sound pretty good, though the bridge pickup seems a little quiet to me. I'm super happy to have found it, now I have to decide which of my other guitars needs to go.

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Re: NMGD - New Mosrite-ish Guitar Day!

Postby MissionBrown » Wed May 25, 2011 7:44 pm

Nice!

I see those pop up every couple of months here in Oz.
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Re: NMGD - New Mosrite-ish Guitar Day!

Postby MWaldorf » Wed May 25, 2011 10:25 pm

Congrats Fritz - that looks like Salvador Dali had a go at a Combo!
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Re: NMGD - New Mosrite-ish Guitar Day!

Postby FritzCat » Wed May 25, 2011 10:59 pm

It's extremely Mosrite Combo-like: unusual body shape, narrow neck, zero fret, speed frets, stamped roller bridge, german carve, slanted neck pickup, volute on headstock, single volume/tone knobs. You can't really call it a copy but it's obvious which guitar they had in mind when they designed it. It was an excellent deal too, and in such good condition that I seriously think it lived forgotten under someone's bed for many years.

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Re: NMGD - New Mosrite-ish Guitar Day!

Postby Veenture » Thu May 26, 2011 1:44 am

That's wonderful FritzCat, congratulations, I like those kind of stories :)
Did it come from afar (Japan) or was it local?

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Re: NMGD - New Mosrite-ish Guitar Day!

Postby Sarah93003 » Thu May 26, 2011 6:48 am

Congratulations Fritz! That looks really cool.
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Re: NMGD - New Mosrite-ish Guitar Day!

Postby FritzCat » Thu May 26, 2011 7:46 am

I found it on ebay, in Indiana. I had been watching another one, but that one was kind of beat: replaced tuners, more chips/scratches, broken pickup ring, no case. This popped up at the same price ($300) so I jumped on it.

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Re: NMGD - New Mosrite-ish Guitar Day!

Postby paulramon1962 » Thu May 26, 2011 7:49 am

It looks really nifty! How does it play?

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Re: NMGD - New Mosrite-ish Guitar Day!

Postby Sarah93003 » Thu May 26, 2011 8:25 am

FritzCat wrote:I found it on ebay, in Indiana. I had been watching another one, but that one was kind of beat: replaced tuners, more chips/scratches, broken pickup ring, no case. This popped up at the same price ($300) so I jumped on it.



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Re: NMGD - New Mosrite-ish Guitar Day!

Postby tunnelrat » Thu May 26, 2011 12:28 pm

Fritz that is awesome, I had also never heard of this. I see one is on eBay right now in Chatsworth, CA which is about a 40 minute drive from my house, part of me is really tempted to buy it (although that will set back my plan to buy a Combo back a month or two....urrgh)

I can hear my mind trying to justify it to myself right now - "but you need guitar to use in alternate tunings for one of your bands" and "you're getting a raise in July, just buy it"


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