I can’t find ANYTHING about this guitar…

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November 16, 2007 at 9:45 pm #24541

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Morris Hurricane Equinox-2

Except a few people who are asking the same questions as me. Its a black electric with red fret dots. I found an old post of someone looking for one that lead me to believe its pretty old, like 20+ years. Can anyone help? 😕

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- December 1, 2007 at 11:57 pm #73981
  
  1bassleft
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  I’m not much help, but I would say the 2nd photo looks very cool, dRock. Any photos of me playing, I always look like a bicycle-seat-sniffer.
- November 29, 2007 at 12:59 am #73986
  
  DRockMonolith
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  Thanks for all the info thus far, guys. Mine doesn’t look quite like that though. 🙂 Here are some pics of her if it helps at all…
  
  http://a739.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/1/l_350df4637705532eca27727f202bd1ba.jpg
  
  http://a465.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/10/l_8951b80c60be507dc6c767d0e07f3838.jpg
- November 19, 2007 at 9:45 am #73979
  
  1bassleft
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  I was about to smugly post that Morris was a brand of the Moridaira concern, but SB beat me to it with more info and no smugness. I saw an eBay ad that said Moridaira made the CMI guitars for Jim Marshall. I’m trying to check out this story.
- November 18, 2007 at 11:19 pm #73919
  
  SB
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  Sorry, just realized GLW’s post was a question, not a picture of an instrument like yours.
  
  If yours isn’t star shaped, disregard anything I said except for the background on Morris-Moridaira. sb
- November 18, 2007 at 11:10 pm #73945
  
  SB
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  Hey DRockMonolith,
  
  I’ve got a couple of thoughts concerning your guitar.
  
  First, a bit of background you may or may not know.
  
  Morris is one of the trade names used by the Moridaira company. Moridaira is a OEM Manufacturer that began operations in Japan and then moved to Korea. They are known for producing entry and intermediate level electric and acoustic instruments although they no longer produce solid body guitars.
  
  Looking at the photo supplied by GLW suggests to me your guitar is mid 80’s and built in Korea. Here’s what I’m thinking. To my knowledge, the first builder to produce this “star” shape was Charvel San Dimas in 1981. By 1983, Hondo had copied the shape and was producing their own star model. I have the 1983 Morris catalog posted on VintAxe so I took a look and there are no Morris star models pictured. They are still selling pretty conventional looking instruments.
  
  So, my conclusion is that Morris began marketing their star shaped guitar after Hondo which I would guess would be around 1984-85.
  
  Plenty of conjecture here, but it is my best guess. A look at the headstock would be very informative. sb
- November 18, 2007 at 7:52 pm #73957
  
  myfoot
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  Some info here but not on an Equinox
  http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Guitar/brand/Morris
- November 18, 2007 at 1:08 am #73917
  
  glw
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  Is it one of these lads: http://www.tymguitars.com.au/images/forsale/guitars_323.jpg
  
  Edit: sounds like Morris Hurricanes came in a variety of body styles according to the “reviews” on this page: http://www.reviewcentre.com/reviews55169.html
  
  There was a Morris Tornando brand too, which were acoustic guitars.
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