Vintage Guitars. Led Zeppelin helped to popularise the Les Paul in the 7. Two major issues defined the progress of electric guitars for most of the seventies. Companies outside North America vastly improved the quality of their guitar manufacturing and 2 Companies inside North America namely Fender and Gibson took their eye off the ball and did exactly the opposite. By this time, many guitar manufacturers from the Far East had 1. Univox, Kawai, Silvertone and Domino were starting to deliver guitars that from a price quality point of view were beginning to eat into the markets that Fender and Gibson dominated. Not only was the manufacturing quality improving, but the quality of the REPLICATION was reaching new highs. The lawyers at Gibson started to get restless, and young guitar players like myself were also getting restless I could not wait to go out and buy a UNIVOX Les Paul for 15th the price of the real thingDamn, it was so inexpensive that I could almost afford to smash it on stage Cool But as the saying goes, all good things must come to an end. Towards the end of the 1. Fender and Gibson were loosing market share. That is why we hear so much about the Lawsuit ERA guitars. Late in the seventies, Gibson Guitars won a legal battle for patent infringements, which over time, shut down all but a few copy guitar manufacturers worldwide. This allowed some elbowroom for Gibson and Fender to rethink and retool their operations to fortify their position in the market. To avoid the same problem happening again, Gibson bought Epiphone and started building some very nice Imported Copy GuitarsA list the Mosrite owners, with guitar information and comments. Dumble musical instrument amplifiers are custom manufactured in very limited numbers by Alexander Howard Dumble of Los Angeles, California. Dumble is a oneperson. The Seventies was the era of Classic Rock, so its not surprising that so many new guitar brands were flourishing then. But it was a less innocent time than the. Johnnysreceipt.jpg' alt='Mosrite Ventures Guitar Serial Numbers' title='Mosrite Ventures Guitar Serial Numbers' />Fender opened facilities outside North America under different brand names like Squier. GIBSON LES PAUL COPIESHere is a typical selection of 1. Fender and Gibson copies. These were all imported from Japan under different brand names. Also a sweet 7. 4 Gibson Les Paul 5. Vintage 1. 97. 0s Lotus Les Paul Electric Guitar. Vintage 1. 97. 0s Hondo II Les Paul Electric Guitar. Mosrite Ventures Guitar Serial Numbers' title='Mosrite Ventures Guitar Serial Numbers' />GuitarSite Guitars Database The Guitarists Directory of General guitar information sites. All about rare vintage guitars, guitar amps, fx pedals and more MOSRITE The Ventures model 19631969, 19711974 Data base a collection of serial numbers and years. How it works give yourself Credit packs So. The AmpliTube Custom Shop is incredibly easy to use. Heres how Step 1 Download, install and. Guitar Player Magazine Backissues. Hard To Find Magazine Backissues Good, Clean Fun. No Wait Period. No registration. No Taxes. Think about it. Where can you have. Vintage 1. 97. 0s Kay SG Electric Guitar. Vintage 1. 97. 0s Gibson Les Paul 5. Electric Guitar. Vintage 1. Silvertone Telecaster Electric Guitar. Mosrite Ventures Guitar Serial Numbers' title='Mosrite Ventures Guitar Serial Numbers' />INSPIRED BY MOSRITEHere is a selection of Mosrite copies from the seventies, along with one original Mosrite. The GM Custom is actually all original Mosrite parts built by a former employee, Gene Moles, after the Bakersfield Mosrite factory closed. The Univox guitars are popular today because Kurt Cobain of Nirvana used one. I also have some additional Mosrite copies farther down this page, some listed under the 1. Vintage 1. 97. 0s Silvertone Mosrite Electric Guitar. Vintage 1. 97. 0s Univox Hi Flyer Electric Guitar. Vintage 1. 97. 0s Univox Hi Flyer Electric Guitar. Vintage 1. 97. 0s Gene Moles Custom Mosrite Electric Guitar. Vintage 1. 97. 0s Mosrite 3. Stereo Electric Guitar. If you like those guitars but cant find a vintage one, Eastwood Guitars is currently reissuing several of these designs check these Eastwood Mosrite reissues. The Ventures were very popular in Japan and that is why so many Mosrite copies were made during the 1. Few of them, however, compare to the real thing as shown on the 1. KAWAI GUITARSKAWAI was one of the better quality manufacturers to come out of Japan in the seventies. Here is a nice selection of their guitars. My favorite is second from right. This guitar is absolutely MINT. It belongs in a museum. Hmmmmm. I guess it is Vintage 1. Kawai ES 1. Electric Guitar. Vintage 1. Kawai Electric Guitar with 4 pickupsVintage 1. Kawai Electric Guitar with 4 pickupsVintage 1. Kawai Electric Guitar with 3 pickupsVintage 1. Kawai Mosrite Electric Guitar. Eastwood once again Kawai model, the Eastwood SD 4. Hound Dog, a fantastic re creation of the Kawai used by bluesman Hound Dog Taylor. MORE LES PAUL COPIESHere are some additional examples of Les Paul reproductions from the 1. On the left is a very nice Hondo Deluxe 7. Mark II. Flame top, set neck, humbuckers all that you would expect from the real thing at 18 the price. Next to that a blonde Sekova, a sunburst Hyundai, a Tobacco Sunburst from Univox. Lastly is a fantastic Tokai Set Neck with the historic Sunburst Finish. This is an incredibly nice guitar. The 7. 0s Tokais go for nearly the same price as a real Gibson these days. Once you play one youll know why. Vintage 1. 97. 0s Hondo Les Paul Les Paul Guitar set neckVintage 1. Sekova Les Paul Electric Guitar. Vintage 1. 97. 0s Hyundai Les Paul Electric Guitar. Vintage 1. 97. 0s Univox Les Paul Electric Guitar. Vintage 1. 97. 0s Tokai Les Paul Electric Guitar set neckMORE JAPANESE WONDERSHere is a grab bag of assorted 1. Japan. Vintage 1. Tele Star Electric Guitar. Vintage 1. 97. 0s Silvertone Telecaster Electric Guitar. Myself Yourself Ps2 Iso Torrents. Vintage 1. 97. 0s Tempo Electric Guitar. Vintage 1. 97. 0s Tempo Electric Bass Guitar. Vintage 1. 97. 0s Yamaha Burns Copy Electric Guitar. MORE MOSRITESA few years back I wrote up a piece about my pursuit for the perfect Mosrite copy. Scattered across the 1. Here are some of the 1. On the left, a nearly perfect 1. Mosrite Ventures Model. Mint. Next to that are a pair of Univox Hi Flyers and a Silvertone Slider. This guitar is pretty cool because a it has a wicked flame fiish and b it has an individual slider volume for each pickup. This allows for a wide variety of tone setups because you can dial in as much or as little of each pickup you want. Cool. Somewhere along the way I decided to build my own Custom Mosrite Copy. I wanted to put together a guitar that had the Mosrite look but was built for repeated abuse as a stage guitar. It started with as Silvertone shell, just the body and neck. I put Gibson Tuners on it for stability. Next I selected some wild vintage EKO screamer pickups that were extracted from a deceased EKO 7. V. Then I had a custom pickguard made at WD Products in Florida. New pots, switches, bridge, etc and a few days locked in a room. Voila A one of a kind Mosriteko. Vintage 1. 97. 2 Mosrite Electric Guitar. Vintage 1. 97. 0s Univox Hi Flyer Electric Guitar. Vintage 1. 97. 0s Hagstrom Electric Bass Guitar. Vintage 1. 97. 0s Silvertone Slider Electric Guitar. Vintage 1. 97. 0s Custom Mosriteko Electric Guitar. SOME FORGOTTEN GEMSAn early 1. Conrad Strat and a Lotus Les Paul. The Conrad and the Aria are extremely well build guitars while the Lotus is most certainly not. However, I have a Lotus on my 1. Next to that is an Inter Mark frmo Japan. Well built guitar, MUCH better than most semi hollows from this era. You cant tell from the picture but this thing is HUGE LP is about 1. Lyle SG. Vintage 1. Conrad Electric Guitar. Vintage 1. 97. 0s Aria Burns Copy Electric Guitar. Vintage 1. 97. 0s Lotus Les Paul Electric Guitar. Vintage 1. 97. 0s Inter Mark Electric Guitar. Vintage 1. 97. 0s Lyle SG Electric Guitar. Vintage 1. 97. 0s Fender Lead II Electric Guitar. Vintage 1. 97. 0s Univox Electric Bass Guitar. Vintage 1. 97. 0s Microfret Calibra II Electric Guitar. Vintage 1. 97. 4 Guyatone Ricky Electric Guitar. Vintage 1. 97. 0s Norma Barney Kessel Electric Guitar. Vintage 1. 97. 3 Hayman Made in England Electric Guitar. Vintage 1. 97. 0s JG Made in Italy Electric Guitar. Vintage 1. 97. 0 Hohn Electric Guitar. Vintage 1. 97. 5 DVintage 1. 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