Mosrite Gospel Guitar Blonde Serial #003 Rare

Up for sale is my freshly and professionally refretted serial number 003 Gospel Guitar by Mosrite. I am guessing that this model is a 1968, however, if any of you experts out there know the true year please let me know.

I will be updating this page as more info comes to me about this rare guitar. When I purchased it the frets were unplayable. I had my luthier fret this with period correct frets and he did a great job. Has a pro set up but may need changes based on playing style and location.

This guitar has some crazing, a dark mark on the back and various imperfections. No cracks and all hardware and pickups are original.

From Vintage Guitar:
Semie Moseley always wanted to be a gospel singer/guitarist. When he wasn’t crafting Mosrite guitars, he could often be found on the road with an evangelist, providing music for crusades. So, it wasn’t surprising that the now-legendary luthier’s aspirations and beliefs were manifested in a tangential line of instruments carrying the Gospel brand.

Gospel guitars were mostly variations of Mosrite models and debuted in a catalog that touted the ’68 line with a six-string that looked much like the Mosrite Celebrity CE Mark I Model 202 (2 3⁄4“-deep maple body, two pickups, silo-shaped saddles, vibrato, bolt-on neck, bound-rosewood fretboard with zero fret, truss rod with adjustment at the headstock, 24 1⁄2” scale) but had step-up features including multi-ply binding on a bookmatched top, bound soundholes, and “…an unusually outstanding natural finish with a golden brown tinted headpiece.”

Elsewhere in the catalog, the full-depth Mosrite Celebrity had master Volume and Tone knobs, pickup-selector toggle, and an input jack on a palette-shaped plate, while the Gospel version had separate Volume and Tone controls for each pickup. A Gospel-branded 12-string guitar and short-scale bass were listed, but not shown.