The Fretboard Rickenbacker Club (NSFW)

slacker

GavRichList said:

slacker said:

GavRichList said:

I still pang for a 360 now and again. 

https://i.imgur.com/5nqrzcO.jpg

That’s mean 

I didn't intend to be mean so I apologise. Anyway you need a 12.

p90fool

Forgive my rustiness as I don't even have finger callouses any more since I stopped playing in March, but I dug out the 620 for a quick noodle, and I have to say I love its bite with a bit of overdrive. 

oldhorsemurphy

Here's my 330 in Matte Black. It wasn't my first choice of colour but I was offered it in mint condition and for a really really good price. I've never owned a 330 before (I've had lots of 4001's and 4003's pass through my hands) but have always hankered after one. 

When I was in my mid-teens I really got in to The Jam who'd split up about a decade before and remember asking my Dad to stop off at the Flying Pig in Hanwell so I could try one. I couldn't afford one at the time as they cost (from memory) the princely sum of £680. 

I can live with the colour (it's growing on me) as the guitar is brilliant. It does the Ric "thing" so well and is far more versatile than I would have thought given all the less than favourable comments out there. 

https://i.imgur.com/j1fn3KP.jpg

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

merlin

Oooops, I forgot about this. Received in a trade..... I'm enjoying it in quite a deep way. Surprisingly fun to play and great sounding and everything else. I really didn't know until owning it how many different tones there are in one of these. Brilliant. 

GavRichList

oldhorsemurphy said:

Here's my 330 in Matte Black. It wasn't my first choice of colour but I was offered it in mint condition and for a really really good price. I've never opened a 330 before (I've had lots of 4001's and 4003's pass through my hands) but have always hankered after one. 

When I was in my mid-teens I really got in to The Jam who'd split up about a decade before and remember asking my Dad to stop off at the Flying Pig in Hanwell so I could  try one. I couldn't afford one at the time as they cost (from memory) the princely sum of £680. 

I can live with the colour (it's growing on me) as the guitar is brilliant. It does the Ric "thing" so well and is far more versatile than I would have thought given all the less than favourable comments out there. 

https://i.imgur.com/j1fn3KP.jpg

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

very much my kinda thing. Lovely. Would I trade my 88 maple for it? - it'd cause me quite the headache, certainly. 

mikem8634

oldhorsemurphy said:

Here's my 330 in Matte Black. It wasn't my first choice of colour but I was offered it in mint condition and for a really really good price. I've never opened a 330 before (I've had lots of 4001's and 4003's pass through my hands) but have always hankered after one. 

When I was in my mid-teens I really got in to The Jam who'd split up about a decade before and remember asking my Dad to stop off at the Flying Pig in Hanwell so I could  try one. I couldn't afford one at the time as they cost (from memory) the princely sum of £680. 

I can live with the colour (it's growing on me) as the guitar is brilliant. It does the Ric "thing" so well and is far more versatile than I would have thought given all the less than favourable comments out there. 

https://i.imgur.com/j1fn3KP.jpg

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

You're spot on with the versatility thing. I spent a good while gigging with a 330 exactly like yours (just a bit glossier) and  Mark III Boogie. A lot of unexpected ground was covered.

Aislingean

Ok I am in a dillema and now in love with this recent 360 12 fg that is in that local auction without reserve but are they really worth investing most of my savings on a hobby guitar?
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Teyeplayer

Aislingean said:

Ok I am in a dillema and now in love with this recent 360 12 fg that is in that local auction without reserve but are they really worth investing most of my savings on a hobby guitar?
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Not sure what you mean by a hobby guitar, do you mean that it only has one distinct use? I plan to gig mine as soon as we are allowed, it’s got such a huge sound that I’ve stopped viewing it as a one trick pony. The birds/petty thing is just one aspect - a Rick 12 is a stunning thing. 

Aislingean

Not sure what you mean by a hobby guitar, do you mean that it only has one distinct use? 

I am now a little old for gigging except perhaps in a pickup ceilidh band so if I was to invest in this it would be a vanity play at home for my own enjoyment never to be seen in public guitar..... My wife thinks I am either sad or mad!
I have no idea what to offer but I will have a bid 

JMS96

The one that got away

And the keeper

Teyeplayer

Aislingean said:

Not sure what you mean by a hobby guitar, do you mean that it only has one distinct use? 

I am now a little old for gigging except perhaps in a pickup ceilidh band so if I was to invest in this it would be a vanity play at home for my own enjoyment never to be seen in public guitar..... My wife thinks I am either sad or mad!
I have no idea what to offer but I will have a bid 

Ah I understand now. 

I realised in the last lockdown that there were a bunch of guitars I owned that I was less fussed about and a few (the Rick 12) that I had wanted since I was 14 and for some reason had never owned. I came to the conclusion that I work long hours, I do everything I can to look after and provide for my family, but life is short and to our governments cheap, so a few of those small pleasures are justifiable and deserved. Even if the only person getting pleasure from the use of that guitar is me, that’s fine; I probably won’t be but I could be dead in 6 months so I’m going to be a little bit selfish and have the guitar I wanted since I was a teen. Fortunately, my wife is very understanding/tolerant.  

Teyeplayer

No connection to me (and I can’t afford another) but this is currently a very reasonable price for a 360/12: 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/224217840224

thermionic

Penultimate photo tells me that guitar is on sale because the owner is fed up of restringing a 12!

GavRichList

p90fool said:

Forgive my rustiness as I don't even have finger callouses any more since I stopped playing in March, but I dug out the 620 for a quick noodle, and I have to say I love its bite with a bit of overdrive. 

couldnt be further away from how I play, but that's a lovely tone you're tickling out of the woody chap. 

p90fool

Well tbh @GavRichList I play in a girly pop band which suits more conventional Rickenbacker sounds perfectly, I just wanted to see if I could get it to do stuff you never hear them used for. 

I have a shreddy mate I'll have to persuade to have a go once lockdown is over. 

eoinzy

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prowla

eoinzy said:

Could someone help me with a 370 question? I'd expect the middle pickup volume to be the same as the neck pickup, but rolling off to the middle pickup with the blend knob loses all life. Am I missing something?

When I use the blend knob all the way clockwise with the selector in the neck pos, I get the bridge  pickup 1 and 2 (neck, middle) - as you'd expect. If  the blend is all the way clockwise pickup 2 (middle) is then very weak and muffled sounding on its own. I've seen online it's supposed to try resemble an acoustic sound. If I move the blend all the way counter clockwise I get the bridge - sounding strong and clear on it's own. It's as if the blend is attempting to issolate the two, and pickup 2 (middle) is just not performing properly.

This is the wiring schematic.

http://www.rickenbacker.com/pdfs/19514.pdf

From that it looks to me like the middle & neck/bass pickup are on the exact same circuit and the blend controls that half of the circuit's interaction with the bridge/treble pickup half.

I don't see anything which allows you to select the middle pickup on its own in that circuit.

One thing you could try is using the stereo output, if you have a TRC cable and a dual input amp/mixer or two amps.

ICBM

Yes, the stock Rickenbacker 3-pickup wiring simply parallels the neck and middle pickups.

The 'blend' control isn't one, and never has been - all it does is reduce the volume (and muddy somewhat) the tone of the neck pickup by adding a second reverse volume control in series with the main one, so fully anti-clockwise is the full output of the pickup and fully clockwise is half volume.

I have seen some 3-pickup Ricks rewired so the blend control does other things though - I think at least one used to balance between the neck and middle pickups - could yours have been modded?

It's also not that uncommon for Rickenbacker pickups to suffer broken coils, and if that happens at the ground end you get a thin, weak tone rather than complete silence. If so, @OilCityPickups is who I would use to rewind it - there's a reason why they break, and he fixes that.

eoinzy

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GavRichList

https://www.instagram.com/p/CHSx4o1n2cg/?igshid=huoqsyvl7piz

Not played through my amp in a while. Man I love this 330 - so open and articulate. Woody. I mean, it’s made of wood, obviously