Many long hours goes into the creation of these one of a kind, made-to-order guitars. I use only the best quality materials available from the curly maple, ebony and rosewood to the hardware.
The Maphis will be constructed to resemble the original doubleneck guitar made for Joe Maphis by Semie Moseley in the mid 1950's. There can be some specifications requested by the customer but the final shape, configuration and color will be the decision of TNM. No two are ever exactly alike. The goal of my efforts is to continue the line of these very special guitars. Semie Moseley made only a few of this type. So far only 7 have been accounted for- Joe Maphis', Larry Collins' Doyle Hart's (see news page) Bob Regan, Doyle Hart, Doug Brewer, Walt Rogers, and Elaine Frizzell was fortunate to get one in 1984.. (If there are others I would be very pleased to here about it.) Much later Semie made Joe a second doubleneck when the original went to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Larry Collins recieved a second guitar in 1988. Both of these were far less adorned than the originals.
At present there are 2 types of peg head design options: The six on a side version, like the very first model presented to Joe Maphis in 1954, (like my prototype) or the M head design that appeared about 1 year later and became the hallmark of the Mosrite look. The tremolo would be similar to the Mosrite Celebrity. Supplied by Bob Shade of Hallmark Guitars. If an original Celebrity tailpiece is preferred this would be acquired at extra cost. The bridges are a modified Rickenbacker type with rosewood saddles as original. Now based on the Hallmark bridge.
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*A word about the pickups. The original pickups used on the first iteration by Semie were supplied by Carvin. These are getting very hard to come by. . . If you would prefer to have original Carvin pickups on your guitar we would have to start looking to buy vintage Carvins and harvest the pickups. No telling what the cost would be. Otherwise, reproduction pickups, wound to original specs by Bob Shade of Hallmark Guitars would be used.
Deke Dickerson that resurrected my second doubleneck, originally made for Ernie Odum in 1959. He restored it and toured world wide, exposing this fascinating, over-the-top guitar to thousands of people that may have never seen one before, or, reminding the fans of Joe Maphis and Larry Collins of a time past.
Because of Deke, I started making a new doubleneck in my spare time (SN003). I think it was about 1999. I worked on it for years. . . never quite finishing it (until 2004). Enter Buddy Dughi.
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Buddy Dughi, leader of the Hot Rod Trio, lead guitar of Suzy Q and her Be-Bop Boys (which features his beautiful wife Suzy). Buddy is an intense collector and historian of Joe Maphis and all things doubleneck. I'm not sure how many doublenecks Buddy has at present (He recently divested a mint condition Mosrite JM65) but supplies most of the instruments for the doubleneck extravaganza that Deke Dickerson puts on at his Guitar Geek Festivals the last few years.
Buddy, being a friend of Deke Dickerson had seen the recent restoration of the TNM Custom doubleneck. I guess it was something that he would like to have because he started calling me to get one built for him. He was persistant and persuasive, after a few calls I said I would make him one. I thank him now for his persistence. Making these replicas of Semie Moseley's masterpiece is an honor. I am proud to carry on the tradition.
I build these guitars as a tribute to my mentor Semie Moseley and to my guitar picker idol, Joe Maphis. May they both rest in peace.NASHVILLE, TN - April 2016 - Jesse Cunningham has added a third TNM to his collection. A Tele/Bigsby with TK Smith hardware. Thank you Jesse.
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NASHVILLE, TN - January 2016 - Jesse Cunningham's second TNM is complete. A Bigsby type single neck based on the Billy Byrd guitar. Features Maple front and back with Mahogany rim. The neck is a 5 piece maple with Ebony fret board and bound Bloodwood headcap. Jesse supplied the TK Smith tremolo and pickups. Email or call for more information.Check out the Jesse Cunningham page. More photos of the Corral and the Bigsby Billy Byrd guitars.
NASHVILLE, TN - September 2015 - Jesse Cunningham's CORRAL #004 has been completed and shipped. Features a knotty pine carved top with mahogany body and neck with bloodwood sleeve guard, pickguard and headcap.
NASHVILLE - JULY 2015 - Restoration has been completed on the Bob Regan - Mosrite Special for David McCarthy. A 7 month process that started with retro creating the 1st generation head stocks, filling over-sized pickup holes, replacing all binding, new fingerboards with name inlays, pick guard and sleeve guard, contour edge fillers, scratch building vintage tremolo, violin tailpiece, scratch built bridges and . . . . .plenty more. Portrait photos will be taken soon.
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Larger and slightly thicker body then regular M5. Here are a few progress shots of the bent rim process and body carve. Body- 15 1/2 wide 2 1/8 thick.
NASHVILLE - July 2014 - TNM model M5-p features the LR Baggs T-bridge piezo passive pickup sysem with the Gig Pro off-board preamp. Guitar features carved spruce top, extreme curly maple back, rim and 3 piece set neck. 7 layer w/b binding on front. 5 layer on fingerboard. 3 layer on back. Pickguard made of Bloodwood also features 5 layer binding. . Premium ebony violin tailpiece and 5 layer bound fingerboard with completely new designed head stock and new script TNM logo. Sperzel satin gold tuners. Comes with high quality TKL fitted case. Price - $4500 + shipping if required More Photos
NASHVILLE - July 2014 - The other Joe Maphis guitar - a Semie Moseley modified Gibson Super 400. The rim cut in half, creating a 2 3/4
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Thick body adorned with the customary 'over the top' Mosrite decorations, thinned down neck, Joe Maphis name inlay, special headcap and signature Semie pickguard and sleeve guard. Renamed the Super 200. A spectacular companion to Joe's Mosrite Special doubleneck. But what ever happened to it.
THE SUPER 200 STORY - CLICK TO VIEW The chronology is still being studied. What we (Jody Maphis and myself) are fairly certain of is that Joe had at least 2 Super 400's. The earliest one, modified with a white Bigsby pickguard. (Shown on page 149 of the Paul Bigsby Story book) Below is a photo dated 1954. Gary Lambert and Joe Maphis with the S400 and the Bigsby pickguard. This Super 400 is believed to have been sold to Carl Smith and not the guitar modified by Semie Moseley that became the Super 200.. The next Super 400 is seen in a few photos with a serial number that indicates a mfg of 1956. Perhaps given to Joe by Gibson. Semie gave this his gingerbread treatment. Pickguard, sleeve guard and some headcap mod as well. A huge mod came with the slicing of the rim of the guitar to make it a 'thin' model. This look was fairly short lived as it was even more customized in the next version.
In the last version, the Super 200 was born. A Mosrite type headcap was created, a new radically radius fingerboard with Joe Maphis inlaid in script and the neck slimmed down to broom handle size with a flamboyant pickguard that can never be forgotten and curiously a pair of Gibson 'humbucker' pickups with a B3 Bigsby with what is now known as the Duane Eddy arm.
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This final version of Semie Moseley's creations is the projects goal. It's unknown why or when the guitar was brought back to Semie but Joe returned to the Mosrite factory in the mid to late 60's and found his Super 200 in a scrap pile totally stripped of all its parts. He took it and asked a friend to hold it for him until he could get Semie to restore it. But that never happened and that's another great story.
Joe found his old Super 200 guitar in this condition at the Mosrite shop. He picked it up and asked an old friend Henry Sharp to hold it for him until he could get Semie to restore it. But that never happened.
Here's the starting point of the project. As I said before the guitar was rescued from the scrap heap and restored in 1980 to the version you see below by Gene Moles, Bill Grugett and Dale Shehan. We will be taking it back to it's glory days of the late 50's
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NASHVILLE - March 2014 - The new M-5 Staple has been completed. Similar to the original M-5 with these exceptions. A new classic head design, multiple binding front and back and the Alnico 5 pickup know as the Staple for its rectangular shape magnets. The Staple was available on a few high end Gibson's in
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