Ok guys, I finally bought one! Mosrite Excellent.

[mosman]

Yep.Go to my post ' No return ... ?' and you'll see a shot of them plus my Japanese Super Custom ' 64.

I have two Excellent 65's, Blue and red

Any pics, Mosman?

[MWaldorf]

Here's a picture of my old Excellent (now with Fritz) and my '66. The Excellent is on the left. I put a mint guard on it and swapped in a 1Meg pot for volume in place of the 250K pot. Most Excellents have 500K pots; some, like mine, didn't. Also, most have serial numbers, but some don't (mine didn't) and most have Mosrite labelled pickup covers but some don't (mine didn't).

I think the frets are the same general size on the Excellent as on the '66, but the vintage mosrites then had the frets filed down to nearly non-existant. Some don't care for this, others, like me, do. It's entirely possible to give an Excellent a speed fret job, but also entirely unnecessary; it's really just a feel thing. I gave my parts-rite a speed fret job, which you can read about in the semi-mosrite thread on the projects forum.

So, without further ado, here are two mossies:

[ElTwang]

Great pic, Mosman. Especially the red one.

Mel. Also a superb picture! Great for comparison. I think that mine will be almost identical to Zak's as the serialnumbers are very close (and same size/font) as far as I remember from Zak's photo of his. It also has the Mosrite stamp on the pups.

Why didn't you go for the 'traditional correct' 500k pots?

[MWaldorf]

Why didn't you go for the 'traditional correct' 500k pots?

The 500K pots had standard sized shafts and didn't fit the knobs. I had a 1Meg pot I'd taken out of a MIJ Jaguar (I upgraded that to FenderUS parts) which fit the knobs so I used that.

If you're guitar was made in the same timeframe as Zak's you'll probably be good to go straight out of the box!

Mel

[FritzCat]

When I bought my Excellent from Mel I was able to compare it directly to his original '66. The guitars were almost close enough as to make no difference.

[ElTwang]

Well, you're all very good to get my expectations up. Thanks !

[Dennisthe Menace]

Lars, I just have one question.....What took you so long??!!!
LOL!! Don't bother responding...We ALL KNOW the answer to that! LOL!

[ElTwang]

Lars, I just have one question.....What took you so long??!!!
LOL!! Don't bother responding...We ALL KNOW the answer to that! LOL!

If I was living in the US I'd probably be swimming in Mosrites by now

[ElTwang]

Got it yesterday but haven't had much time to play it yet.

First impressions:

It feels very much like the vintage ones I've seen and tried. Yippiee! I do think the neck-pup could be raised a bit for more grit.
Everything seems to be a-ok apart from the D and G string are buzzing like crazy. It seems that the string-barrels has gone a bit loose. They move from side to side when I touch them. I just need to tighten them, right? Man, those 10s feels like banjostrings on a Mosrite, haha. Huge difference from Fender as you all say.

I'll post more later and a couple of pics.

Lars, Mosrite player

[dubtrub]

Everything seems to be a-ok apart from the D and G string are buzzing like crazy. It seems that the string-barrels has gone a bit loose. They move from side to side when I touch them. I just need to tighten them, right?

Lars,

Take a look at this topic. It will cure that string post movement which is common on some Mosrite bridges.