UglyCasanova wrote:Rare DBAs go for crazy money these days. As a student, I feel inclined to test the waters. I don't use it as much, and we could use the money for grown-up stuff. As with the sonic crayon, if it doesn't sell, I don't mind hanging on to it. But yeah, mostly to piss off D.o.S.
For real dude. I mean I can't even hold on to a pedal if it can get me $300. If I knew I could get that much dough from one pedal, all I would hear was money flushing down a toilet every time I stepped on it.
jwar wrote:Be true to yourself homie! Fuck not selling it! Just make some money! Wata Fuzz 800 bucks! REMEMBER!!!!!! Or was it 700... I can't remember...
I don't know if this is still true, but I do know that when I started getting into offbeat guitars I read about how the Ventures-branded Mosrites were absurdly expensive because Japanese collectors love The Ventures, despite the fact that the guitar was, by all accounts, not phenomenal.
Nah, Mosrites are great guitars. They play better than fenders of the era in my opinion....they were very thin necked with a zero fret which probably turns people off. I think they were all hand made in a small factory (nothing like fender, Gibson, or even a Japanese company would have had). Like maybe 10-12 people or something. They just relied a lot on licencing/manufacturing deals (foxey lady, tel ray etc) and were terrible with money.
But the pickups varied quite a bit. The workmanship was fine, but they kinda made the pickups with whatever they could get cheap and in bulk. That was according to m3. Other people had said that companies like Grestch and fender were just pumping things out and varied quite a bit in woodwork quality.
I will say that they are probably harder to care for and require more upkeep than a fender with the way they are made and a less stable neck...probably would warp easier over the years. Thinner frets +zero fret means that they have to be regretted a lot I'd think. There are probably a lot of bad players out there just because of the lack of upkeep
There are a lot of clones/licences copies in Japan and several fights over the name. Also, the ventures model was only made at the very beginning of the company (before money got in the way)...the Joe Maphis was a longer running sig model. Mk l and ventures are the same...just less ventures so people fake em. Mk II are the most rare though (originals).
But, I am sure the Japanese market did drive up the price...but they were always considered good to great guitar here as far as I know.
There was also kurokumo and Fillmore which where both licences copies with different wood and pickups (Fillmore is still legit lincenced). The licenced ones vary a bit and the wood is really soft from what i hear. There are also NC mosrites from the 1980s that were even a smaller shop (and mostly focused on roots/country/praise markets).
New mosrites I think are made in a shop of 4 or something by Semie's daughter.
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Or was it 700... I can't remember...
