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I'm a new one 4 this forum,but I'm envolved in guitars till 80,s ,I didn't know how much there was the prices of the Mosrite in the past ,but I can say that in my country(Italy) everything is going up:
I bought a 65 Jazzmaster in1998 at 4 million lira(at that time),now after 10 years the price is 3500-4000 euros,and the rare Mosrites you can find are priced very high,2900-4500-it depend from the years,so the market goes.
I have to say that I prefere to play an old guitar,first 4 the feeling of the neck without the laquer,and a ...weight of real wood!
don't know nothing about Mosrites,only Ventures and the Johnny Ramone guitar(I made the security 4 them in Italy and had time to talk to him about his guitar,he gave me some plectrum!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
so,I just go crazy about this guitar and I must have one....a reissue mij(japanese are the perfect workers,like in motorbikes,cars...not spectacular,but ..good.
so my Ranger model will come,ther was a "of classic" used one in Italy,but they ask more than a brand new Ranger in England.
I can't wait since I saw another great Mosrite in action at the summerfestival-surf-in Livorno-Italy,played from the finnish band "the Charades",listen to them,they're great !Bruno

brunob wrote: in my country(Italy) everything is going up

That can be said about Finland as well. With Mosrites the used guitar market is practically non-existing, and nobody imports new ones to Finland at the moment. I just landed a pretty decent deal with my Ranger, whereas sometimes the asking prices are very high. But when there's no supply, and still some demand, the prices tend to rise.

brunob wrote:so my Ranger model will come

Congratulations! Just got mine on friday I posted two pictures in the Rangers-thread.

brunob wrote:the finnish band "the Charades",listen to them,they're great !

Yes, we listen to them I personally prefer their older albums. I could go on about their equipment, but I think I'll leave that one to TripleJ...


P.S. I just sent a friend request to The Wet-Tones in MySpace.

hi! please come in!!
I didn't listen to the Charades before ,many people told me about a -fabolous guitar player-played with them in the past.
I'm a big fan of Laika &the Cosmonauts as well!!!!!
how does your ranger sounds???
cheers Bruno

brunob wrote:I didn't listen to the Charades before ,many people told me about a -fabolous guitar player-played with them in the past.

Yeah, or actually there were two of them. Their original lead guitarist was Hannu Könönen who now plays with The Nightcreepers ( http://www.thenightcreepers.net/ ). The former rhythm guitar player was Marko Rahikainen, he is now a member of The Mustangs ( http://www.myspace.com/mustangsthe ). The Mustangs are a very legendary long-time rautalanka band, but unfortunately they haven't been very active lately.

Rahikainen was also a member of The Surf Wipes, in which TripleJ played the lead guitar.

brunob wrote:how does your ranger sounds???

It sounds & feels FANTASTIC!