My new "Frankenstein" Mosrite

[Dennisthe Menace]

The bridge is authentic as well, but it belongs to a MARK V w/vibrato, Celebrity, Dobro or a Bluesbender
with a stop tailpiece and/or maybe another model or two that I might of forgotten to mention..... .

[tunnelrat]

update : I just compared the body with a friend who has a Univox Hi-Flyer and it's clearly not the same...the Univox's have a different body bevel and for lack of a better explanation, are made of a 'tinnier' feeling wood. He seems to think the body is a beat-up original Mosrite. Does anybody know any other older copies that this body could be from?

[tunnelrat]

Also yet another question -

I'm really not used to having humbuckers (been playing a 50s Strat Re-issue for years), especially in the bridge...been wondering about swapping something out, maybe a humbucker-sized single coil like a P94? Anybody have any experience using different pickups in a Mosrite?

The other option is going back to Mosrite pickups. The body has been routed a ton around the pickup and pickguard area and there are still the original holes from where I assume there were once Mosrite pickups..but if it's been re-routed to fit humbuckers, will this affect anything other than perhaps making it look weird?

thanks for any input you guys might be able to provide. I figure with the little amount I spent on it, it's not a huge deal to do things like swap out pickups (I'm also eventually gonna get a Jazzmaster or Mosrite / Mosrite copy tremolo...can't stand the Bigsby's limited tremolo arm range)

[Murphman]

Hi tunnelrat,

Wot about going back to Mosrite pickups and using a "mistake plate" around them like Semie did with the first Mosrite trems when the body was routed incorrectly? That way the "Frankenstein" may look as if it were a real prototype?

Murphman

[tunnelrat]

Murphman can you explain what you mean by 'mistake plate'?

[Murphman]

I haven't got a picture available to illustrate it - but Semie made an early Mosrite "Joe Maphis" model.
It was a set neck and he set the neck angle wrong so had to rout the body to recess the trem further into the surface ( or the action would be too high. To hide the mistake, he made a plastic plate to surround 2 sides of the trem / bridge plate.
This was the "mistake plate" ( Experts, please correct me if I have the story wrong? )

So, what I meant was if the routed hole is bigger than the Mosrite pickup ring, then make a bigger piece of plastic to cover the hole, then set the Mosrite pickup back in - voila, a "mistake plate"!

[MWaldorf]

Murph's got the idea. In general, I'd suggest you try the forum search feature. There's a lot of great information that could be at your fingertips!

[64sunburst]

Cool lookin'. I'm not the expert that some of the others are, but the body sure does look like a Mosrite, rather than a Univox.

Byron

[tunnelrat]

yeah I've shown some other people more knowledgeable than me and they say it's a Mosrite body that has been heavily routed to accomodate the pickups and then a Univox bass pickguard that doesn't quite sit flush on it...

at the end of the day, it's definitely the best $450 guitar I've ever bought