I am a singer/songwriter/guitarist and I live in Utah. I recently came across an old Gruggett Custom on a classifieds site and was intrigued, so I had to go look. Well now I am the proud new owner of this beautful guitar! It plays beautiful and the pick-ups just sing! It has some knicks and dings in the finish...but is in good shape for its age...I think anyways. I am guessing this guitar was made sometime between the late 60's/mid 70's. I think frets have been dressed on it at some point and are a little on the low side, but it still plays very nice.
I know very little about this guitar. It does have some unique features, such as the awesome wood pick-up covers, real brass dot markers in a beautiful mahogany neck with binding, All mahogany body, Conn Tuning Machines etc. It is a fixed bridge guitar that has a Les Paul style bridge. It has a beautifully set neck joint with great lower fret clearance. The body has the parameter routing/chamfering like a lot of Mosrites have. I carefully pulled the pickguard and rear access cover and no where on the guitar can I find markings of any kind...no serial number, no initials, no dates. I do have the original case for it too.
Anyways, I was glad to find this forum! I suspect that a lot of you guys must be familiar with Bill Gruggett because of his involvement in Mosrite and Hallmark. I did find the Gruggett.com website and I sent an Email to Bill last weekend to ask a few questions about the history of the guitar and to see what he would charge to refret it (If he has time). I haven't heard back from him yet, but I am looking forward to learning about this awesome guitar. I hope that he checks his email regularly
I will see if I can figure out how to post some pics! I would love to hear your comments about this guitar and also if any of you have ever seen one like it or have information regarding production dates or anyting like that.
Many Thanks!
John
