The Eastwood repros of everything else are great. The Airlines and Supros are perfect, so I would imagine the Mosrite copy, the "Hi Flyer" is pretty nice.

Real Moserites are way too expensive. Very cool though.

-A

I had a Univox copy, which I loved. Broke the headstock in an unfortunate...uh...let's say "jumping accident." and just left it at the venue. Someone painted it and hung it above the door to the bathroom.

alex maiolo wrote:The Eastwood repros of everything else are great. The Airlines and Supros are perfect, so I would imagine the Mosrite copy, the "Hi Flyer" is pretty nice.

Real Moserites are way too expensive. Very cool though.

-A

The Eastwood Hi-Flyer copy is an ok guitar but nothing like a real Mosrite. It looks great but everything else about it is bad. The pickups feed back when turned up any louder than silent and the necks way thicker and wider than the Mosrite neck (many people prefer this but I don't).

The real Mosrite stays in tune much better (despite having a old tremelo arm with a very tired spring) and is weighted much more evenly.

They do cost WAY more than any guitar should cost but if you can get one on the cheap do it. Mine cst me $1600 and I've just spent $800 on getting it restored. I think that was too much but who cares, it's fucking beautiful.

My friend got a '67 ventures Bass in a pawn shop for $400 and after he had the neck shimmed, it played great and sounded amazing through a portaflex. I think I saw another go for around $1000. To me A grand isn't too much to pay for a well crafted vintage American instrument. They used to be made in Boonville Arkansas.
My favorite is the Barbara Mandrell Special because of the little retarded guitar at the top.

I have a Celebrity hollow body. Not crap.

Never played one, but one of my favorite body styles of all time. I ha(d)ve an ECG with a mosrite body, hella comfortable and stylish!

Originals.. WAY over priced.
Here's one:
http://www.elderly.com/vintage/names/mo ... -13576.htm

Tom wrote:Originals.. WAY over priced.
Here's one:
http://www.elderly.com/vintage/names/mo ... -13576.htm

That's a sleek looking guitar. Jesus.

Played the a friend's Univox copy, the Hi-Flyer, years back. I don't know how close the copy is to the original, but I remember the Univox sounded great.
In terms of design, I thought it was a killer. A lot of my early cartooning attempts in Junior High featured band drawings and the guitarist I would draw almost always played a non-distinct Mosrite/Univox design or a non-distinct mutant Fender of a sort.

crap, but only because I can't afford one. otherwise not crap.

japmn wrote:My friend got a '67 ventures Bass in a pawn shop for $400 and after he had the neck shimmed, it played great and sounded amazing through a portaflex. I think I saw another go for around $1000. To me A grand isn't too much to pay for a well crafted vintage American instrument. They used to be made in Boonville Arkansas.
My favorite is the Barbara Mandrell Special because of the little retarded guitar at the top.

I think that would be my main guitar, for reals.