1971 Maphis Black Beauty

[dorkrockrecords]

In the past few months three of these have surfaced, and perhaps they are the only three in existence, so I thought it only right to give them their own thread. Numbers 1 and 3 turned up on eBay, and number 2 is owned by one of Nokie's friends. Our very own handbrake is the proud papa of number 1, and these neat specimens have been discussed in two other threads. Hopefully a little consolidation will help future searching.

Cheers,
Adam

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[handbrake]

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Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 4:19 AM
Subject: RE: You've received an answer to your question about item Early 1960?s Custom Mosrite Guitar serial # cc0001

Hey [handbrake],

I shipped it out Saturday morning. The tracking number is [...]. The man at the UPS place said you should be receiving it on Monday May 4. I did take the neck off thet guitar so that it could be shipped in one box, fully insured. I put the strings and screws in a baggy within the box though I am sure you will use new strings.

As far as the history of the guitar goes, all I have ever been told was my father in law won it when he was a teenager at a concert in Albany NY. In a card game I think. He have had various estimates on the value of this guitar ranging from $1000- $5000. I have had it in my house for about 7 years now and neither my husband nor I play or know anything about guitars, so we decided to try to sell it. After about a year of researching the guitar and coming up with absolutely no other guitar to compare it to in order to get a jumping off price to try to sell it, nor a person interested in buying it, I tried e-bay just to see if there was any interest out there at all. And about 6 hours after posting it, you bought it. I will ask around my family and see if anyone knows more about this actual guitar and get back to you if I find anything else out.

Also, as soon as you receive the mosrite, check it over and are satisfied please log back into e-bay and leave me feedback so that I can access your payment. Otherwise I will need to wait almost a month for paypal to release your payment to me. Please and thank you :)

[seller]

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Subject: Re: You've received an answer to your question about item Early 1960?s Custom Mosrite Guitar serial # cc0001
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:13:20 -0800

Hi [seller],
Thanks for your reply. It's kinda funny, but one day you don't know a guitar exists and the next you're worried about whether it'll make it safely through the mail. Makes me laugh at myself. Anyway, is there any background to the guitar that you can share? You'd said something in the description about getting it from an enthusiast. I'd love to know more.

Thanks for anything worth sharing,

[handbrake]

[ElTwang]

Again and again and again -> WOW! Really cool looking Maphis' in black.
Adam, did Nokie like it?

[101Volts]

Lookin' great! Too bad we don't have a drooling smiley!

[handbrake]

I thought this might be an interesting sidebar to the Black Beauty discussion.

That's a guitar I painted and put together around 1973 or 74 When I was 16.
That's one of those Black beauty bodies I bought from Semie I was telling you about, most of them I striped and repainted because the finishes were cracked so bad.Thats a D-100Mosrite Dobro neck, see how the tuners are straight across from each other.

Best Regards,

Ed

Hi Ed,
I was talking to Adam about this JM and he thinks you might have had a hand in assembling it. Does this look familiar?

http://lasvegas.craigslist.org/msg/1492027846.html

[Sarah93003]

Very cool! Someone needs to make a drooling smiley for us, for sure!