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 STANDEL | | ELECTRIC | In the early 1960s, Bob Crooks asked Semie Moseley (Mosrite) to design a Fender-style solid body guitar for the Standel product line. Moseley's quick response was to flip over a Fender and trace the body outline! Moseley only built about 20 guitars for Crooks, but his flipped over original design became the foundation for the Mosrite Ventures model.
In 1966 or 1967, Crooks was contacted by the Harptone company of New Jersey with an offer to build guitars for Standel. Harptone hired luthier Stan Koontz to design a number of acoustic and electric guitars and basses for the Standel company. The instruments were built in Harptone's New Jersey facilities, and have the Standel logo on the peghead. Their production began gearing up right as Crooks began having problems with his amplifiers. According to interviews with Koontz, only a few hundred of Standel instruments were produced. | |
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