This is Gene Moles Custom Dobro electric guitar made in conjunction with Mosrite in 1968 at their Bakersfield, California factory. It is a beautiful, double cutaway, thin, hollow body electric/acoustic instrument. The features include a redsunburst finish, white binding on the body and neck, one single coil pickup with a metal surround, a Dobro resonator, two sound holes on either side of the pickup with diamond shaped perforations in a metal surface, an adjustable metal bridge with individually adjustable saddles, a trapeze-style tailpiece, two metal strap pins, a tortoise-shell guard plate on which all of the electronics except for the pickups are mounted, and another tortoise-shell plate between the pickup and the metal resonator plate/cone. Although this is a GM Custom guitar, it is based on a Mosrite D-100 resonator electric/acoustic guitar. Mosrite guitars were first established in the late 1950’s after Semi Moseley left Rickenbacker and joined Ray Boatwright. They merged their last names to create the name Mosrite. Gene Moles has played guitar with Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, Red Simpson, Tex Ritter and many more. In addition to also writing surf-rock songs for the Ventures, he was the quality control person for the Bakersfield Mosrite factory which made instruments for some of the country music stars in the late 1960’s. In 1969, he opened a guitar repair shop. This guitar is a beautiful find. Get your hands on this piece of guitar history. Description from VintageSilvertones.com
GENE MOLES CUSTOM/Mosrite D100 - 1pu resonator electric guitar redburst Bakersfield CA 1968. For Sale.
Gene Moles' (musician/Mosrite employee) 1-off custom version of Mosrite D100 electric resonator.
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