The Fano rb6 thinline might be the sexiest guitar I’ve seen

hessodreamy

Like a bastard mix of rickenbacker 330 and telecaster, with an offset body. 



No way I can afford it though. But the closest alternative I can think of would be a tele thinline, with whatever whacky pickup in the neck.

I really like the acoustic properties of a rick 330. Seems very different from a tele  so I’m not sure how much it’d do the job. 

Guitar body builders like warmoth or whoever in the uk usually to a thinline tele, but maybe not something like this (I’m aware they probably wouldn’t get away with a rick copy).

what to do, what to do...

gringopig

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Jalapeno

Had a strong hankering for one of those bad boys last year.  Love them !!!!!

DrBob

You can buy a very similar body from Rosser guitars on Facebook that will take a Standard Fender neck

Blueingreen

I do sort of get these "nostalgia for a thing might have been (but never was)" fake antique aesthetics, ie a lot of these guitars look quite cool to me, but there's a niggly suspicion in the back of my mind that it could be one of these fads that look very silly a few years down the line.

hessodreamy

DrBob said:

You can buy a very similar body from Rosser guitars on Facebook that will take a Standard Fender neck

Interesting. At the moment he’s not doing it as a thinline and not shipping outside the us. But we’ll see. 

Whitecat

https://www.soundaffects.com/pre-owned-c101/rb6-thinline-electric-guitar-with-lollar-gold-foils-in-bull-black-pre-owned-p13211

hessodreamy

Whitecat said:

https://www.soundaffects.com/pre-owned-c101/rb6-thinline-electric-guitar-with-lollar-gold-foils-in-bull-black-pre-owned-p13211

Ooh, free delivery!
£2500 used. C'mon! Not sure it's THAT sexy.

Whitecat

Hey, I'm just the messenger  

Suspect it's up there because you almost never see them...

After it doesn't sell for a while, email them an offer...!

hessodreamy

Whitecat said:

Hey, I'm just the messenger  

Suspect it's up there because you almost never see them...

After it doesn't sell for a while, email them an offer...!

Think they'll accept a squier strat and half a ham sandwich?

Whitecat

hessodreamy said:

Whitecat said:

Hey, I'm just the messenger  

Suspect it's up there because you almost never see them...

After it doesn't sell for a while, email them an offer...!

Think they'll accept a squier strat and half a ham sandwich?

In these dark times they'd be stupid not to.

skullfunkerry

I quite like that. Why is it an offset body shape though? I thought that meant that the waist is 'diagonal'? Or have I been misunderstanding what offset guitars are all my life?  

axisus

 Doesn't do it for me. I like the aged look generally but the body shape looks a bit wrong to my eyes and I find the headstock too large. Still, each to his own and all that jazz.

Fishboy7

Lovely.  Gone already by the look of it though.

Whitecat

Wow, pretty sure it was in stock when I posted it earlier. Any of you lurkers buy it?

Sadly too that kind of establishes that yes, that is what they are worth, at least when a dealer is involved. 

Lebarque

Agreed they're sexual. But have you seen the Novo Mirus J?!

Majorscale

Was in stock earlier. Power of the fretboard! £2.5k is less than used ones go for in the USA so definitely not a bad price! I would have been tempted if it had different pickups and a Tele bridge.

jonnyburgo

 Not totally unlike a Revstar 

Tenebrous

They look kinda like Rickenbackers but good.

gibsongretschfan

im really confused... I thought Dennis Fano sold Fano guitars and now had nothing to do with them?

Philly_Q

gibsongretschfan said:

im really confused... I thought Dennis Fano sold Fano guitars and now had nothing to do with them?

I don't know what the actual business deal was, but he (Dennis Fano) left Fano (the brand) a few years ago and they continued to be built by the Premier Builders Guild in Arroyo Grande, California (along with Baker, B3 and probably some other brands I can't remember).

Now they're made in Scottsdale, Arizona.  Not sure if they're still PBG.