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Question about the Filmore Mosrites

Postby GTSP » Sat Dec 12, 2009 9:16 pm

Why doesn't Filmore put "M" knobs on their Mosrites?
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Re: Question about the Filmore Mosrites

Postby dorkrockrecords » Sat Dec 12, 2009 9:21 pm

They don't make 'em. According to Fillmore (and most Ventures fans), the pinnacle of Mosrite design occurred between 1963 and 1965, and that means no M knobs among other things.

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Re: Question about the Filmore Mosrites

Postby oipunkguy » Sun Dec 20, 2009 8:23 pm

the japanese m knobs aren't correct either, the bottom of the knob doesn't come out enough. other then that they look pretty close to the originals. as far as I can tell the spun knobs look dead on.
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Re: Question about the Filmore Mosrites

Postby GTSP » Mon Dec 21, 2009 12:16 pm

oipunkguy wrote:the japanese m knobs aren't correct either, the bottom of the knob doesn't come out enough. other then that they look pretty close to the originals. as far as I can tell the spun knobs look dead on.


Yeah, I noticed this. I bought a pair of those repro M knobs off of ebay & put them on my Ranger. They have the M on the top, but they don't have the numbers on the bottom. They look pretty good on the Ranger, though.
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1) Mosrite Ranger
2) V88
3) Stereo 350
4) Hallmark II in Johnny Blue
5) Danelectro '66
6) Celebrity III
7) Hallmark Gospel
8) Serenade
9) Eastwood 300
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Re: Question about the Filmore Mosrites

Postby oipunkguy » Mon Dec 21, 2009 7:03 pm

yeah i bought two sets and i was a little bummed about the numbers missing. I always thought that was just another magically thing about mosrites the knobs go from 1-5. I guess Semie just had to be different, lol. I still have them, they're go on a guitar someday 8-)
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