I like that the last polepiece on the neck PU is 1/2” past the high E string

twelvepoint wrote: Thu Feb 03, 2022 7:08 pm I like that the last polepiece on the neck PU is 1/2” past the high E string

For optimal mojo

Always love the guitars that look like someone closed their eyes and tried to draw a Mosrite from memory and then just said fuck it, that's the guitar.

Looks to me like somebody must have been a Dixie Dregs fan...

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Moving along, this arrived, shown after a clean up. Not so bizarre in that it pretty much just tries to copy a Mosrite but ... Sappho Gakki Co Ltd??? That is who made it in Japan. And it's the MAX REGER model???? Only Max Re3ger I can find was a German composer who died during WW1. Almost everything on this guitar is weird apart from the tuners.
Pickguard material for a nut, Framus style headstock/neck join (I've never seen THAT from Japan before), weird neck plate, odd pickup internals, heavy decorated plate with regular 60's era vibrato bolted top of it, Bridge appears to use cut up bolt threads.

Where is 'sleepkid' when you need him!

That Mosrite is amazing. Are we looking at a laminated bamboo neck here?

twelvepoint wrote: Tue Feb 08, 2022 7:37 am That Mosrite is amazing. Are we looking at a laminated bamboo neck here?

Huh! I had not thought of that! Not much of a wood expert.
Pretty sure that this is late sixties /early 70's. Would they have used Bamboo like this then?

The name 'Sappho Gakki Co Ltd' appears on some early traditional Japanese harp instruments (those things with strings and what look like typewriter keys).
There is also a Mory guitar called a Sappho 3 but I don't believe it had anything to do with Sappho Gakki.

Also, do the Japanese mean Sappho the early Greek woman poet from the island of Lesbos, (and, supposedly and somewhat coincidentally, a lesbian herself and a heroic figure to lesbian women down through the ages), or is this a Japanese word meaning something entirely different?

It does look like bamboo now you mention it!

randomonion wrote: Tue Feb 08, 2022 9:05 pm

twelvepoint wrote: Tue Feb 08, 2022 7:37 am That Mosrite is amazing. Are we looking at a laminated bamboo neck here?

Huh! I had not thought of that! Not much of a wood expert.
Pretty sure that this is late sixties /early 70's. Would they have used Bamboo like this then?

It does look like bamboo now you mention it!

My guess is sapele. It definitely looks like the bamboo flooring in my house though!

Incredible guitar. Sapphic as fuck!

Continuing along the Mosrite copy theme, just finished this restoration:


A very rare hollow variant of the more common Morales ZES-300. These were made in the late sixties by the Zen-on Company for the domestic Japanese market only.
This may have been a custom build or something as I can find no other example, or mention in a catalog, anywhere on the net.
Very well made and even came with it's original case!



.... and yes, I need to mow the lawn..... just can't seem to get the goat started!