The Fretboard Rickenbacker Club (NSFW)

eoinzy · September 2020

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Caffeine_Vampire · September 2020

Been offered this as a px. Serial on the jackplate checks out, anyone here able to offer advice on this model/value etc? It's (I believe) a 320 from Jan '93.

SRD81 · September 2020

Caffeine_Vampire said:

Been offered this as a px. Serial on the jackplate checks out, anyone here able to offer advice on this model/value etc? It's (I believe) a 320 from Jan '93.

Can’t be 100% sure but this looks to me like a late 80s/early 90s 320 that has had an accent vibrato added in place of the original tailpiece (vibrato arm currently missing). This is mostly done to get closer to the look of Lennon’s second ‘Miami’ 325.

The slightly larger headstock marks it out as a later production model (I believe the 320 ran until around ‘94), and the lettering on the TRC being 3D rather than printed into the plastic is also consistent with the period.

The pickups look to be the more modern versions (might be called Hi-gains?) rather than the vintage style toasters that are found on reissue 325s, which again suggests 320. Not sure those tuners are original though.

I’ve been out of the Rickenbacker game too long to be very helpful on value, but would have thought around £1.5k sort of region.

Just a note, if you haven’t played one of these before I would urge you to do so before agreeing to the trade. As you probably know, these are short scale guitars. But this mixed with the narrow Ricky nut width can make open chords in particular pretty cramped to play depending on the size of your hands. I’m a massive Beatles fan, love the look and sound of these guitars and have owned and moved on two 325s because I struggled so much with the playability. Great guitars, but very Marmite.

Hope this is helpful,
Si

SRD81 · September 2020

Here’s the couple that I had for little reason other than why not...

SRD81 · September 2020

Bloody Imgur...

https://i.imgur.com/RUXjqki.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/aAPUyvX.jpg

dickieguitar · September 2020

I have a lovely glossy jetglo 360/6 but also this, which I love more. Got it on here in a part-ex, fully intending to move it on straight away, but ended up selling something else instead because it's a gem - both sonically and, er, playabilityally.

It's surely not the only 610 here?

GavRichList · September 2020

dickieguitar said:

I have a lovely glossy jetglo 360/6 but also this, which I love more. Got it on here in a part-ex, fully intending to move it on straight away, but ended up selling something else instead because it's a gem - both sonically and, er, playabilityally.

It's surely not the only 610 here?

I had one about fifteen years ago, very briefly. Didn’t bond with it at all. Slightly daft given my current pair.

eoinzy · October 2020

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GavRichList · October 2020

eoinzy said:

Finally got into the game. As some of you know I've been on the hunt for some time

http://imgur.com/gallery/hKfWGos

Wow, a 370! Where’d you find it?

eoinzy · October 2020

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GavRichList · October 2020

eoinzy said:

GavRichList said:

eoinzy said:

Finally got into the game. As some of you know I've been on the hunt for some time

http://imgur.com/gallery/hKfWGos

Wow, a 370! Where’d you find it?

ebay of all places. Was originally bought in Rhode Island in 07 and made its way over here via the original buyer, who I got it from mint. I honestly think it has the original strings on it!

Very very nice.