Morris Hurricane Theresa electric guitar

Description

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For sale!

Vintage Hurricane Solid Electric Guitar Made in Japan by Morris/Moridaira: Early

Impeccable craftsmanship, electronics are fine, neck profile is modern C-like but very interesting and fast.
Frankly, a Mexican Tele wasn't its match.

I want to sell the instrument, so you can make a relatively unfair offer (I might not accept it).
Trade maybe, trade-in definitely :)

Bill Laurence teles are its siblings, see attached picture or search online.

Details
•2 x single coil pickups
•3 position toggle switch
•Duncan Designed telecaster humbucker (the same as the regular SM, just made in China)
•One piece solid neck - Maple
•Wilkinson Deluxe tuning machines
•`Bullet` truss rod
•21 frets
•Dot inlay
•Heavy laminate wood body finished in high gloss sparkle black
•[3.8 Kilos]



Background Info: Morris Guitars

Hurricane was a Japanese sub-brand of the parent company Moridaira and made under the Morris name. Morris Guitars was founded by Toshio Moridaira (1933 - 2011), building quality handcrafted instruments in Nagano, Japan as well as being was the first distributor in Japan to carry both Fender and Gibson lines. In 1964 Moridaira visited the Gibson factory in Kalamazoo, Michigan. An employee at Gibson nicknamed him “Mori˝ at that time. In 1967, he founded Morris Guitars, deriving the name from his nickname.

Morris solid electric guitars were exported from 1974 until around 1982 at which point Moridaira ran into trouble with Fender and Gibson regarding design similarities. Instruments from that era [like the one on offer above] are often termed `lawsuit` guitars

Moridaira also made guitars for many other companies from the 70`s to early 90`s including Fender Japan, Hohner, HS Anderson and Bill Lawrence. The company also made the highly revered Lotus guitars


Factoids:

The Hohner Telecaster played by Prince was made by Moridaira

Hurricane guitars were the guitar of choice for 80`s guitar ‘legend’ Jason Becker [Cacophony]