Prefix Letter(s) Followed by Some Numbers

[Dennisthe Menace]

Forget the Internet...forget the Guitar Magazines...forget the articles that we have all read in the
past whenever they covered stories about the Mosrite guitar...I would 'venture' to say that anywhere
from 30 to 60 per cent of the articles we have read were either incorrect, or just not quite totally right.
So I would like to ask our 'MOSRITE GERU's' here on our Forum a question that has had me puzzled, and
most likely other Forum Members here as well...........
I/We would be interested to find out if any of you PROs know any of the Letter Prefix descriptions,
and yes, I am guilty of doing some 'snoopin' over on Tym's Website ......
And again, I know there are a bunch of these that we know about, such as:
NC=North Carolina
AF=After Fire
B=Bass, or the MARK II/MARK V
F=Folk
A=Acoustic
And there are others, but what I don't understand is how did Semie arrive at some of the others?
For example, I always thought the guitars starting with the Prefix "K" was when Kustom started
distributing Semie's guitar, because I don't recall seeing the 'K' Prefix until around '72-'73. Check
out the Current E-Bay add........
http://cgi.ebay.com/VINTAGE-1972-MOSRIT ... 7C294%3A50
And I also know that Tym's Serial Number Link on his Website is not totally correct, but there are
some Prefix Letters which do not seem to be an abbreviation for anything . Is there anybody
here on our Forum that can make any sense out of some of these Prefixes??....??

[thunderhead]

I can't help you with the Pre-Fixes but I know that Tym knows a lot, but not everything. Did you send him an email??? When I got my Jonas Ridge 63RI I noticed it has SM in the fingerboard on the next fret after the number!!! I knew that was for Semie Mosley but I didn't know how rare it is. Tyme had never encountered one and there is no info out there about it. Good luck on your Quest!!!

[Sarah93003]

I don't know if it helps, but my 1966 Celebrity has an "N" preceding the numbers. I've seen about a dozen Celebrity's with the N in front of the numbers. I do not know what the "N" means however, sorry. Is that helpful?