Mosrite

Mosrite

Formerly	Mosrite of California
Company type	Private
Industry	Musical instruments
Founded	Los Angeles, California (1956)
Founder	Semie Moseley and Andy Moseley
Headquarters	List Los Angeles, California (1956–59) Oildale, California (1959–68) Pumpkin Center, Kern County, California (1971–?) Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (mid-1970s-?) Jonas Ridge, North Carolina (1981–93) Leachville, Arkansas (1991–1993) , United States
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Semie Moseley and Andy Moseley
Products	Electric guitars

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Mosrite was an American guitar manufacturing company, based in Bakersfield, California, from the late 1950s to the early 1990s. Founded by Semie Moseley, Mosrite guitars were played by many rock and roll and country artists.

Mosrite guitars were known for innovative design, high-quality engineering, very thin, low-fretted and narrow necks (though Mosrite used taller frets and wider necks after the 1960s,) and extremely hot (high output) pickups. Moseley's design for The Ventures, known as "the Ventures model" (later known as the "Mark I") was generally considered to be the flagship of the line. Mosrite also made a small number of acoustic guitars; The Serenade model, and four Balladere models, including one 12 string.