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Post subject: Rickenbacker Telecaster
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 2:48 pm
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Hey Guys and Gals!

I'm thinking about getting a "Rickenbacker Telecaster" built from Warmoth parts.

I envisage:

A double bound Telecaster body with double white edge binding (midnight blue in colour),
3 x Rickenbacker pick-ups (as per Rickenbacker 370),
A Rickenbacker 'shark fin' sound hole,
A Rickenbacker pickguard / switching and knob set up,
A Rickenbacker style bolt-on neck (with triangular inlays),
A Telecaster headstock.

What do people thing the pitfalls of this design would be?

Cheers,

Joe

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Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 5:31 pm
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you may have to sink the ric pickups into the body there pretty tall and mount on the top of the body like p9o dog ears. i think unless you sink them there too tall .


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Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2010 3:25 am
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Sounds wild! Have you ever checked out the "Club King" series of guitars from Reverend guitars? Sort of along the same lines, without the middle pickup.


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Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2010 4:09 am
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no i havent but i will

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in the mean time you might want to check out one of these ibanez aft 73.

the white pickguard is how it comes but i made changes

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Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2010 9:41 am
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amx05462 wrote:
you may have to sink the ric pickups into the body there pretty tall and mount on the top of the body like p9o dog ears. i think unless you sink them there too tall .


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The pickups are going to be a BIG issue. Surface mount pickups are not compatible with a Fender type solid body where the neck, bridge, and strings sit much lower than the set neck Rick, Gibson, etc crowd.

Hey Joe, what style bridge were you thinking of using? Please keep us updated. I'm curius how this goes since I'm a big Tele and Rick fan!

When Ric did their own solidbody with bolt-on neck (the short lived model 230) they used different pickups.
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