'NUTTY' ABOUT MOSRITE NECKS!

[Veenture]

I don't know if it has ever been mentioned here before on Danny's forum, but here's a very interesting reaction by Del Halterman (author of the Ventures Book) in a thread over at The Undergroundfire2 forum in which an explanation is offered as to how it came to be that Semie made his necks so narrow!

http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/un ... sage/42131

[jfine]

I hadn't heard that! What a story, eh? That would certainly explain why Semie refused to make a wider neck, even for Don Wilson...

[mark1]

In thinking that Semie was very frugal , not cheap , this would make sence.

[MWaldorf]

Interesting, except that Mosrite necks were narrow before Semie started using the barrel string guide. Before that he used wood guides or a notched fret.

[dubtrub]

Interesting, except that Mosrite necks were narrow before Semie started using the barrel string guide. Before that he used wood guides or a notched fret.

Glad you said that Mel. I've been biting my tongue holding back saying something. I guess it's a funny story though.

When I met Semie in the late fifties he was building one guitar at a time. I doubt he ever had more than three of anything much less twenty thousand. The guitar necks were even smaller than the sixties production models.

[Veenture]

Yep, clearly Nokie's humor

[oipunkguy]

well to me a mosrite neck is wide compared to an old VOX bass. those necks felt like a broom handle.