The Totally Miscellaneous non-Alembic Guitar and Bass Thread

[edwardofhuncote]

You got me there! Closest thing I ever had was a DanElectro. I've been trying to remember what in the world I traded that guitar for... I don't even have a picture of it. Pretty sure it went in a swap that I got a Kalamazoo for. Anyway, that's waaaaay cool. Especially the relief cut top. Looks like solid mahogany too.

We had a protracted conversation here some years back about Semie Moseley and Bartell, Hohner "Black Widow" basses. Another one of my bass heroes, T. Michael Coleman played them. I'll have to look for it.

*Found it- https://club.alembicguitars.com/miscellaneous/i-d-this-bass/msg231889/#msg231889

[Nova Constellatio]

I'm a huge fan of early Mosrites — the '50s double necks are wonderful beasts, and the stuff before the factory (1961-63) is super special. The pickups on the early '60s guitars are magic — kind of like a Carvin AP-6, but even glassier and more hifi. Someday I'll figure out how they were made, although I'm terrified to pop mine open.

Now I have to dig up pictures of a Danelectro I found last year.

[Nova Constellatio]

A 1954 prototype with the things that became lipstick pickups once Nat Daniels bought all those empty lipstick tubes. The pre-production instruments are usually red, from what I've seen.

The metal armature that the neck is built around extends all the way to the bridge, which is a neat feature that they didn't adopt.

[peoplechipper]

like a Wandre...

[cozmik_cowboy]

A college buddy in the '70s had a Ventures Model, as did a college buddy in the '00s; I have thought Mosrites were criminally under-rated by the F-G snobs (and wish they still were by the collectors.......)
Also, I was once in a music store somewhere in Kansas of Iowa of some such place with the guitarist for the lounge band i was doing sound/follow spot/pyrotechnics for, and the owner pulled a case from under the counter; said it was a prototype (which his son help Semie design) for a Merle haggard Signature Model.
Maple 'board with a brass strip down the center of it.  Only maple 'board I've ever liked (but then, it didn't a finish - so I imagine it would look pretty nasty in quick order if it didn't live under the counter).
I love Mosrites!

Peter

[Nova Constellatio]

Sounds like a brass rail!

[edwardofhuncote]

I had an unusual ukulele in my shop a few days ago... a handmade 6-string tenor. It had octave course strings for the 1st and 3rd sets. I'm not sure what they were thinking, but surmise that it must have been built for a particular playing style with both up and down strums by the way the strings were arranged. Tuning was g-cC-E-Aa. Now, figure that out.

Anyway, it got me thinking I hadn't had this little guy out in a while. Martin Style 2M soprano uke... year unknown. It has bar frets, a logo, but no stamp on the headstock reverse. So after '35, but before the mando/uke shop ran outta' bar fretwire. They didn't serially number ukes. Good thing too. They made a blue-million of these things. Not as many of the fancy ones. This one came from an estate sale where this buddy of mine called me one Saturday morning. He'd found this one and a Style 3M. We split the deal. Oh yeah, I got the original case too. 

[Nova Constellatio]

Beautiful little thing. The other one sounds like the unholy union of a ukulele and a taro patch. Weird.