Serial number '2J 222' blind-stamped on the twenty-second fret of both necks. The twelve-string guitar has a zero fret + 22 original 'speed' frets and small inlaid single & double clay dot position markers.

The conventional guitar has a zero fret + 22 original 'speed' frets, small inlaid single, double & triple clay dot position markers. Two two-piece, lightly-flamed maple necks, both with thin and fast profiles and single white-bound 'slab' Brazilian rosewood fretboards. Two-piece alder body with 'German Carve' scalloped top-edge (14 13/4 inches wide and 1 3/4 inches deep). The regular six-string neck has a nut width of just over 1 9/16 inches and a scale length of 24 3/4 inches the twelve-string neck has a nut width of 1 11/16 inches and a scale length of 24 3/4 inches. This custom-color 1966 'Joe Maphis' double-neck (six-string neck in the lower position combined with a twelve-string neck in the upper position) weighs 11.50 lbs. At first I thought that perhaps someone had sanded the thing down for some unknown reason but the finish appears to be original, typical of an instrument with 45 years of wear.1966 Mosrite Joe Maphis Double-Neck - Six Strings and Twelve Strings…ġ966 Mosrite Joe Maphis Model Double-Neck 6/12 String. It's just kind of floating over the cutout. As a result the pick guard does not sit flush. Does the 68 stand for 1968?Īnother oddity I noticed was that in every other model I've viewed online, there appears to be a rather pronounced bevel around the outside of the body. I just took the neck off and there is no date stamp anywhere to be found, but there's a '5068' number stamped in the top fret. This thing appears to be similar a Venture's model yet it doesn't say 'Ventures' on the headstock. If anyone knows anything about Mosrites, I have a few questions.

The following year I found a beat up '61 Fender Princeton in a dumpster, plugged it in and called myself a bass player. This bass was given to me in 1988 (when I was 9), discovered in the garage of a family friend.

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