Morris Hurricane

I have one of the Morris Hurricane Superstrats with a locknut. Bought it for next to nothing. The guitar has a 630mm scale length and 24 jumbo frets. The board radius is fairly flat, around 16inches, which makes bends and fretting quite easy with 10-52's on it. The p/u wiring is 3 switches,3 way config of with the neck and middle p/u being on and reverse polarity along with the larger bridge humbucker of 2 coils or 1.1 Volume and 1 Tone pot.Any amount of sounds can be made with this config. Larger C shape Maple neck with good Rosewood board, Sharktooth inlays for that metal look thing going on. Very comfy to play, small scale, thick neck, and flat board. So easy to play and get the notes precise. The Trem is string thru with locknut, stays in tune under hard wild use. Trem setup with a little bit of up gives this Strat type of guitar some real buttery suppleness which is a joy to fret and play. Go find one, set it up sharp and enjoy expressing yourself with a super easy guitar to get good sounds on and responses out of. I have no idea what wood the body is made from, its fairly heavy but a nice sound acoustically. Its balanced treb mid and lower mid. Amped, the guitar sounds "controlled and produced", which is a good thing. Nice and even all over really.

I am a just learning to play guitar I went to purchase an electric, and this guitar found me. Its a hurricane susie by morris (maraidora company). It plays great! Everyone that touches it loves it, but has never heard of it. Just wondering if anyone knows anything about it. Thanks

I'm an Acoustic Guitar player for over 20 years and recently I was looking to finally learn how to play the Electric Guitar, mostly learn how to play Leads and Riffs etc.. I shopped the Large Guitar stores then pawn shops. I was looking for Guitar 'Feel, Weight, Neck, String Action. Few Electric Guitars felt adequate, usually something was off like the strings were too high on the upper frets, the fret bars had burrs on them and not smooth (new guitars mind you), and the sound was hum drum for guitars under $500 (Epiphone, Ibanez, Fenders etc.)The Fender Squires were the best it seemed but a lot of sustain is carried by the pickups to the wood of the body and neck of the guitar. The 'lower end' guitars are lighter and use cheaper wood and thus produce hum drum sound.

I browsed thru a few Pawn shops and found lots of cheap guitars there, used and abused. I resolved that I would be better off buying a New Fender Squire for the price of a pawn guitar. But, sometimes you get Lucky, and Lucky I was when I found a Hurricane Stella by Morris hanging on a hook in a pawn shop, marked down to $49 on Closeout.

I knew nothing about this Hurricane Stella by Morris so I examined it and found it to be all of what a nice New Stratocaster is like! Fine Feel, nice low string action and playability, beautiful straight crafted maple neck, nice rosewood fretboard, somewhat dirty from someone playing it (a good sign) and nice 'heavier than a cheap guitar' weight to carry sustain and harmonics with a nice amplifier and this one only had 4 strings and out of tune.

Needless to say, I bought it for $49, took it home, cleaned it up, new set of strings and a little bridge adjustment and WOW! I was impressed with the Playability and the Beautiful Sound out of this fine Guitar with a stupid name, 'Hurricane Stella by Morris'.

If you can find one of these at a reasonable price and in good condition, my advice is to Buy it! I know I will never sell mine. I want to say it is almost as good as an Fender American Strat or Gibson SG in playability. Albeit, a small step down, but a great practice and performing guitar that you can play almost type of music on, Rock, R&B, Jazz, Blues etc., it all sounds good.

I, like others, have searched the internet for more information on this Guitar but have found very little. My guess on the manufacturer of these guitars is that they must have been made and added as a new line for an established guitar manufacturer who made just a very few of them and then stopped making them altogether. How else could the crafting and materials be so superior to other similar guitars on the market? And, most of the sighting of these guitars seem to come from down under. I'll bet thats where mine came from.

The Hurricane Stella by Morris is well worth over $500 and better than the new clones under $500 for sure. Find one, Buy it and make it your own, you will be glad you did!

i bought a strat shape hricane yesterday! it realy nice

but one of the 3 mid-range pikups is not working

still it sounds gud and is really a fair value for the money

I have a 1988 Sunburst Hurricane Telecaster by Morris, its in perfect condition and I adore it, lovely tone and the neck is brilliant - think I paid £120 for it then, served me well and still sounds nice. Anybody know any history on this guitar?

I bought my Hurricane Telecaster new about 1976, cream with black pickups. I've used it fairly regularly since then; my son is using it now for his music course at 6th form collage. I love playing it and wouldn't sell it. Be interested to know what they are worth now though. Mike B.UK

I have a hurricane vivian flying v. It rules play like a pro, solo is easy with the fret board. I love it , but I need to know its value and history can anybody help?

Sounds good if you tune it right.

I purchased the Morris Hurricane guitar as a back up in 1989 after seeing marty friedman of cacophony with it. Turned out to shred nicly. I did mod the bridge to an EMG act 81. I love it. Nice bite. Love to see others out there kept them going.

I had my black Hurricane Telecaster under my bed for 12 years before I started getting into it; I think it's probably a mid to late 80s vintage. Now, I know what I have missed. If it were lighter I would rate it 9.