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Post subject: Rickenbacker
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 7:01 am
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Seems to me I've read several times that guitar techs don't care for working on them. Something about setups being difficult or something along that line. Anybody confirm or deny?

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Post subject: Re: Rickenbacker
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 11:08 am
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I never read anything about it , so I don't know

I know there are not many qualified guitar tech or amp tech


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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 11:49 am
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I also am no expert, only worked (= hobbied, no pay...) on a Ricky bass, and that was a long time ago.
But I can imagine why techs might have that opinion. First, Rickenbackers are sorta rare so you don't work on them every day, so you don't have the routines ready, and then you get this manual to start with. Dual truss rods, bridge designs that don't resemble anything known to mankind, possibly reversed controls... :wink:

And don't get me wrong, those are some great instruments.

Edit: Add the stereo/dual jack systems to the oddities list above.


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Post subject: Re: Rickenbacker
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 11:52 am
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they are not easy to work on at all. especially the 12 strings versions.


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Post subject: Re: Rickenbacker
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 1:57 pm
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A 300 series 12 string is what I'm looking at. Think it might be a 330. What else can you tell me?

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Post subject: Re: Rickenbacker
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 2:50 pm
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Rickies are unique, great looking and have a great heritage, though they're also, dare I say, over-engineered.

So it's not surprising to me that a setup is more challenging.

I had serious GAS for a Fireglo 360 for quite a while, then I actually played one (several actually) and found that I really am not partial to their sound/Tone... :( :(

Not trying to dissuade you at all, just relaying my impressions.

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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 4:22 pm
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A walnut series 360 six floats my boat. I'll be sure not to play one ahead of time, because this is a pure lust thing and I'd hate anything to ruin it. I had never read that they were tough to work on. Sounds like a tech might actually have to think a little.

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Post subject: Re: Rickenbacker
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 9:13 pm
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Those Ricks are beautiful guitars especially the Fireglo colored ones. I watched a sales person at a local guitar store change strings on a 12 string Rick 330. It looked difficult and the sales guy confirmed what I observed. Changing strings on six string Rick looks easy enough.
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Post subject: Re: Rickenbacker
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 5:18 am
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Three of my 45 guitars are 6 string Rics. Other than learning to put a cloth under the tail piece to hold the strings in place when changing them, and adjusting the duel trus rod (which I've never had to do), they're no different than any other guitar. In fact, I find Strats much more difficult to set up correctly.


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Post subject: Re: Rickenbacker
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 5:25 am
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First Ric I ever saw was a late 50's 330 in the hands of Jimmy Burton on one of those Ricky Nelson closing the show song sets. All I could muster was :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: I had to put the question to Henry at Manny's Music in Manhattan as to what I was looking at. A subsequent model was a bit thinner but had the same design. Always wanted one. They're high end and hard to find.

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Post subject: Re: Rickenbacker
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 6:50 am
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Re: Rickenbackers...

Love their looks, love their sound, hate their feel.

That's why I don't own one...

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Post subject: Re: Rickenbacker
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 7:07 am
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Screamin Armadillo wrote:
Re: Rickenbackers...

Love their looks, love their sound, hate their feel.

That's why I don't own one...


+1

Coming of age during the "summer of love" and living close to the SF Bay Area, the 360/12 was one of my wet-dream guitars. I'd seen several on stage at the Monterey Pop Festival and coveted that sound. Fast forward some forty years when I'm able to afford any instrument I choose and I discover to my utter disappointment that the Rick's narrow fretboard does not favor my bratwurst fingers.

:(

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Post subject: Re: Rickenbacker
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 2:17 pm
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Thanks for the heads up. Just took a look at the specs. That's a narrow neck. Not the guitar for me I guess.

( sigh .... )

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Post subject: Re: Rickenbacker
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 4:20 pm
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BMW-KTM wrote:
Thanks for the heads up. Just took a look at the specs. That's a narrow neck. Not the guitar for me I guess.

( sigh .... )


I'm real sorry.

I was heartbroken too.

:cry:

If Rickenbacker were to take a look at the realities of the marketplace and offer some optional neck widths, they might sell a whole lot more guitars......

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Post subject: Re: Rickenbacker
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 4:44 pm
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Retroverbial wrote:
BMW-KTM wrote:
Thanks for the heads up. Just took a look at the specs. That's a narrow neck. Not the guitar for me I guess.

( sigh .... )


I'm real sorry.

I was heartbroken too.

:cry:

If Rickenbacker were to take a look at the realities of the marketplace and offer some optional neck widths, they might sell a whole lot more guitars......

Arjay


That may be two broken hearts. The funny thing is, my next purchase will probably be a 2015 SG Standard, with the aircraft carrier neck and fret board. My friend bought one and it felt right. I went in to play several and each time I liked it. I'm going to wait for the end of year discounts and go for a translucent black. I never wanted an SG in my life but that big wide neck and low action was very comfortable.

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