Editing Mosrite (section)

===Apprenticeship===
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Semie Moseley started playing guitar in an evangelical group in [[Bakersfield, California]], at age 13.<ref name="GP">Thompson, Art, [http://www.guitarplayer.com/article/mosrite-40th-anniversary/jan-07/24776  "Mosrite 40th Anniversary"], ''[[Guitar Player]]'' magazine, January 2007.</ref> He and his brother Andy experimented with guitars from their teen-age years, refinishing instruments and building new necks.<ref name="BC">Price, Robert, [https://web.archive.org/web/20080712034122/http://www.bakersfield.com/static/FP/baksound/mosrite.htm "The Man Behind the Mosrite"] (archived 2008 copy), ''[[The Bakersfield Californian]]''. Has biographical notes on Semie Moseley.</ref>

Semie began building guitars in the Los Angeles area around 1952 or 1953, apprenticing at the [[Rickenbacker]] factory.  There he learned much of his guitar making skills from [[Roger Rossmeisl]], a German immigrant who brought old-world [[luthier]] techniques into the modern electric guitar manufacturing process. One of the most recognizable features on most Mosrite guitars is the "German Carve" on the top that Moseley learned from Rossmeisl. During the same time, Moseley apprenticed with [[Paul Bigsby]] in [[Downey, California]], the man who made the first modern solid-body guitar for Merle Travis in 1948, and who invented the [[Bigsby vibrato tailpiece]], which is still used today.