Mystery guitar

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Mystery guitar

Postby agiant » Thu May 30, 2013 6:02 am

I open this new thread about my recent acquisition (see the thread "Help! Firstman price range" for more info).

The problem: The seller claims that it is a Firstman Mosrite. Due to my (sometimes annoying) curiosity, I did some research and I ended up asking Mr. Kazy Firstman if he could date the guitar. He says it is not a Firstman Mosrite. This is the thread in the Firstman forum (in japanese, use google translator).

http://6404.teacup.com/firstman/bbs

So we have a mystery here. I am sure that you people like challenges :)

These are the pictures:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8028662%40N04/sets/72157633804244484/

The guitar sounds and looks good. In any case, I want to know what I've purchased (and compile information to demand accountability if necessary).

Any help is welcome!

Thanks in advance.

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Re: Mystery guitar

Postby dorkrockrecords » Thu May 30, 2013 6:22 am

Firstman serial numbers start with FM. If yours isn't one of those, then it's an early Kurokumo. You can try contacting them too.

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Re: Mystery guitar

Postby motiersbad » Thu May 30, 2013 1:20 pm

dorkrockrecords wrote:Firstman serial numbers start with FM. If yours isn't one of those, then it's an early Kurokumo. You can try contacting them too.


agree! i think it's a Kurokumo - These are great guitars, too!

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Re: Mystery guitar

Postby agiant » Thu May 30, 2013 2:39 pm

I've just sent an email to Kurokumo... let's see what happens.

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Re: Mystery guitar

Postby agiant » Sun Jun 02, 2013 8:56 am

No news... :(

I've been searching similar mosrite clones (ventures logo, no "from california", funny neck plate, M knobs, all chrome moseley bridge, serial number formed only by numbers ... ) in google images (japanese sites included). I have found a couple of quite similar (not equal) guitars, but the sites do not provide info about their factory and date.

Are there more opinions?

One more question: When you say "early kurokumo", what year is it?

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Re: Mystery guitar

Postby agiant » Thu Jun 06, 2013 2:01 pm

In the meanwhile... a picture of my surf guitar collection :)

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Re: Mystery guitar

Postby FritzCat » Thu Jun 06, 2013 2:50 pm

What do you mean by "funny neckplate"? They're not supposed to be rectangular/square, the ones I've seen mostly look like this Image

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Re: Mystery guitar

Postby agiant » Thu Jun 06, 2013 3:16 pm

FritzCat wrote:What do you mean by "funny neckplate"? They're not supposed to be rectangular/square, the ones I've seen mostly look like this Image


I meant the curved neckplate, like the one in your picture.

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Re: Mystery guitar

Postby SanchoPansen » Fri Jun 07, 2013 3:53 am

Not funny at all. Standard ;-)

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Re: Mystery guitar

Postby agiant » Fri Jun 07, 2013 5:51 am

SanchoPansen wrote:Not funny at all. Standard ;-)


Standard for Mosrites, funny for the rest :lol:


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