Jewel in the crown

Many of you followed my journey to build my dream guitar.. This beautiful Mosrite "The Ventures Model". During the process I've been fortunate enough to meet and befriend some great people! Thanks to Dana Moseley , Mark Moseley, the late Andy Mosely as well as Judy and Nokie Edwards! Today I received my hand made, leather guitar strap made by Judy Edwards and signed by one of the greatest guitarists, her husband Nokie Edwards of my favorite instrumental rock band... The Ventures! Looks great and completes this guitar! How stinkin' cool is THAT!?

All original Mosrite built from new, old stock parts and a fresh set of Dana-Mo Pickups by Dana Mosely

Mosrite Guitar Build: I was very saddened by the news today that Andy Mo...

Mosrite Guitar Build: I was very saddened by the news today that Andy Mo...: I was very saddened by the news today that Andy Moseley had passed away.  If you've read this blog you know that the guitar body which w...

I was very saddened by the news today that Andy Moseley had passed away.  If you've read this blog you know that the guitar body which was originally built by Semie Moseley was kept by his brother, Andy for just over 20 years with intentions of finishing it.  That's when I acquired it last year and managed to complete the guitar with much help from Andy and others.  I never got the chance to take the guitar over to Nashville and show it to him.  I will think of him and Semie both each time I play it.  I'm very grateful for his contribution to making my small dream of owning a Mosrite a reality, it's a special one! Mosrite Forever!

It's FINISHED

Well, once I got rolling on the last few stages of the project, I spent all my time building and not posting. I did, however, take photos of the process.  I couldn't be happier with the way the entire guitar turned out.  Here's a quick snapshot of the finished guitar.  I haven't gotten around to photographing it professionally.  I'll be making time for that soon! If you'd like to hear it, check out my video at Mosrite Video

Now the hard part... waiting... Friday I shipped out the neck to get the "Mosrite" and "The Ventures Model" logos screen printed on the headstock.  It was a little difficult to let it go out of my site, but I have full faith that it's in good hands. PLUS, I insured it :).  A big thank you to my buddy Brandon who helped me do the wiring and shielding on the pick guard.  I could've done it myself, but he did a much nicer, cleaner job than I would have I'm sure (and i'm meticulous). For the tech minded out there, We wired it with switchcraft switch and output jack and a CTS pot on the tone and the new Seymour Duncan high speed, linear-audio taper volume pot, a 600V .047 Orange Drop capacitor, and vintage cloth "pushback" wires.  Anyway, I gotta wait for the neck to return then clear coat it with 7 or 8 more coats then wait ANOTHER week to let it cure before wet-sanding and buffing.  Good news is that's the light at the end of the tunnel. If all goes well, I'll be playing her in just a couple of weeks!

Today I spent about 2 hours scraping the plastic binding around the guitar body to get the black paint back off of it.  This is a very tedious task but all in all it went well.  I had to touch up a couple of spots where i scraped too far and hit the wood edge.  Once that dries I'll scrape the binding just a little more to make sure it has a nice even edge and then it's on to 10 coats of clear on the body.  The neck is getting shipped out on Tuesday to get the headstock logo screen printed by Bob Shade of Hallmark Guitars!  Not much longer and I'll be playing it!  Photos are better this time. I shot them with a real camera instead of my phone!  Look at that color pop!