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Hi All;
I'm John from Los angeles. I own 3 Mosrites. A '66 Mach 5, a '65 ventures 2 (B174) that someone before me had sanded the german carve so now it looks like a white junior mint. I
bought it (body,neck, all hardware) for $120.00. I am looking for a slab body and decal to replace it. And finally I own a '66 s/b Ventures. I was the original guitarist for GG Allin and the Jabbers back in the day in New Hampshire. I guess that's it for now...very cool site by the way.

Welcome to the forum John.

L.A. huh? Did you by chance make it to Deke's Geek Guitar Fest this past weekend?

Naw; I had family business to take care of. I also missed the guitar show in Costa Mesa. But we have another in August. Maybe Soest will have some Mosrite parts. I often go to Arties in Bakersfield. I showed him my Mosrite tattoo, so he took me out back and showed me all these prototypes, pretty awesome. I guess on the earlier ones Semi used a pencil eraser to mark the fret dot markers; interesting stuff. Artie's really cool.

GG Allin! I tried to go to one of his/your shows here in Chicago back in the early 80's. Now there was one wild guy.

Welcome to the board.

darn! GG Allin, I haven't heard that name in a while. I think Wimpy Rutherford if singing for the Jabbers now. Welcome to the Forum

Welcome Johnnyboy1234 to the Forum. You had posted:

a '65 ventures 2 (B174) that someone before me had sanded the german carve so now it looks like a white junior mint.

Are you SURE about that??

welcome to the forum dood. you gotta post some pics of your guitars. and all I got to say about GG allin is "look out for that flying turd!"

About that Ventures II I have. It obviously was not the slab body, but the headstock is much thinner in width than a Mach 5, similar to the latter. Also the low serial #. I'm just bummed that someone ruined it. I affixed a form fitted Ramones pickguard to it, so it kinda looks better. BUt all in all it sounds good and it was dirt cheap.

the jabbers, that's awesome! I live in NH. Chris Lamy wrote some songs and played lead guitar for my band the rydells. we even covered automatic a few times.
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Andy

Johnnyboy1234 posted:

I'm John from Los angeles. I own 3 Mosrites. A '66 Mach 5, a '65 ventures 2 (B174) that someone before me had sanded the german carve so now it looks like a white junior mint. I

About that Ventures II I have. It obviously was not the slab body, but the headstock is much thinner in width than a Mach 5, similar to the latter. Also the low serial #. I'm just bummed that someone ruined it. I affixed a form fitted Ramones pickguard to it, so it kinda looks better. BUt all in all it sounds good and it was dirt cheap.

Johnny, a form fitted Ramones pick guard will not fit a MARK V. And I believe that a '65 Ventures II with that S/N might be a MARK II. Supposedly, there were less than 200 of the MARK IIs made (some people are now saying there might of been as few as 25-50 made, who knows?).
You had mentioned that it 'was obviously not the slab body,' but you also had mentioned:
"that someone before me had sanded the german carve so now it looks like a white junior mint."
Does it look like a slab body now, another words, no German Carve? And the Headstock WAS smaller on the MARK IIs.....just curious.....