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Connecting => Swap Shop and Wish Lists => Seen on craigslist, eBay, and elsewhere => Topic started by: cozmik_cowboy on February 16, 2022, 09:56:26 PM

Title: I love Mossmans, but......
Post by: cozmik_cowboy on February 16, 2022, 09:56:26 PM
I just stumbled across this ad for a wonderful guitar that I'd saved from Reverb a while back; this sale is ended, but I had to post it so you can read the description in the listing.  https://reverb.com/item/33559928-mossman-texas-plain (https://reverb.com/item/33559928-mossman-texas-plain)


Enjoy,
Peter
Title: Re: I love Mossmans, but......
Post by: BeenDown139 on February 17, 2022, 04:56:24 AM
cracked this open for the morning pre-business warm-up on the desktop, thought i'd rubbed the high-octane CBD on my knee instead of the SFW stuff.  WhooOO00OO0oo!  :o
Title: Re: I love Mossmans, but......
Post by: JimmyJ on February 17, 2022, 08:23:17 AM
Google translate is a wonderful thing! 
Or, as that phrase reads after a couple passes through the translation software:
"The preview on Google is no different!"

Jimmy J
Title: Re: I love Mossmans, but......
Post by: edwardofhuncote on February 17, 2022, 08:27:34 AM
Stuart Mossman was a huge influence when I first got interested in building guitars. I had the fortunate circumstance of restoring what had been a prize guitar at the Winfield, Kansas Championship one time, and it was while working on that guitar, and a sister to it that I realized something beyond C.F. Martin & Co. or Gibson even existed. If you enjoy Mossman's work, take a look at Augustino LoPrinzi. Play one if you ever get a chance. 

*the Japanese language doesn't translate well with English in either direction. It often reads aloud in a humorous way, but as a good friend of mine found out while searching for banjo strings in Tokyo, phonetically, the same word is... ummm... a toilet. If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.
Title: Re: I love Mossmans, but......
Post by: garyhead on February 17, 2022, 08:49:41 AM
I have worked on many ships over the years made in Japan. The operating manuals (circa 1979) were all like this (before Google translate). Try operating a 30,000 HP engine on a 1000’ container ship with gibberish like that!  :o   ;D