Reissue

earwighoney

ICBM said:

Wazmeister said:

ICBM said:

Rickenbacker acoustics.

I felt that they were actually very average as acoustics... still, they looked cool !

I played a couple that were fantastic. I could have got them at decent - though still expensive - prices through the shop I worked for at the time, but they were more than I could really afford, so I thought "I'll just wait until a second hand one comes up"… then of course they discontinued them and the second hand prices went up to well above the original new price. Doh.

How much were the Rick acoustics when they were for sale? 

WezV

Veganic said:

Gibson Corvus.   Just to see if its time has come.

I have always had an idea that it could work brilliantly as a headless, and after discussing this years ago on project guitar some people even made them.  I speculated that gibson possibly designed the shape to be headless originally but went cheap instead

I drew a few designs but never got around to making one

Veganic

WezV said:

Veganic said:

Gibson Corvus.   Just to see if its time has come.

I have always had an idea that it could work brilliantly as a headless, and after discussing this years ago on project guitar some people even made them.  I speculated that gibson possibly designed the shape to be headless originally but went cheap instead

I drew a few designs but never got around to making one

That makes sense.  It looks a bit like one of those Kiesels? 

Much nicer.

Bridgehouse

earwighoney said:

ICBM said:

Wazmeister said:

ICBM said:

Rickenbacker acoustics.

I felt that they were actually very average as acoustics... still, they looked cool !

I played a couple that were fantastic. I could have got them at decent - though still expensive - prices through the shop I worked for at the time, but they were more than I could really afford, so I thought "I'll just wait until a second hand one comes up"… then of course they discontinued them and the second hand prices went up to well above the original new price. Doh.

How much were the Rick acoustics when they were for sale? 

Dunno about new, but the only one I know of in the UK at the moment for sale is a 700/6 comstock and its £7k

ICBM

earwighoney said:

How much were the Rick acoustics when they were for sale? 

I could have had them for about two and a half grand I think - when a new Martin D28 or Gibson J45 was about a grand and a half… going from memory, I may be a bit out. They were not cheap though - but very much so compared to what they go for now as Bridgehouse said.

Moss

Fender and either a Swinger/Musiclander/Arrow or Electric XII

dindude

I reckon if Squier released a limited version of the Swinger for under £300 they'd sell a boatload.

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ICBM

dindude said:

I reckon if Squier released a limited version of the Swinger for under £300 they'd sell a boatload.

I doubt it - the 22.5" scale and skinny neck would be seriously offputting to most buyers. They might work with a 24"-scale neck though, possibly.

I've owned two of these, for what it's worth - both butchered by the same idiot, from the similarity of the damage… I believe a certain John Birch.

Limehouse_Blues

60th anniversary '57 LP Special. Proper fat neck not like the 60 neck profile Specials that Gibson CS have done in the past. And, since nobody has a black and white TV anymore (so TV yellow is out) and wine red is just awful, these 2017 Specials would be available in cool, bright colours. Dare I say it, maybe even some Fendery colours like lake placid blue, fiesta red, sea foam green etc.

Bridgehouse

ICBM said:

earwighoney said:

How much were the Rick acoustics when they were for sale? 

I could have had them for about two and a half grand I think - when a new Martin D28 or Gibson J45 was about a grand and a half… going from memory, I may be a bit out. They were not cheap though - but very much so compared to what they go for now as Bridgehouse said.

Ironically, that's £7k for the one he doesn't want to keep - 2 others which have £offers (implying you need to slap a lot more than £7k down to tempt him)

I fear Rickenbacker would say "we've done the acoustic thing now so forget it" - more chance of Gibson reissuing the Sonex

dindude

ICBM said:

dindude said:

I reckon if Squier released a limited version of the Swinger for under £300 they'd sell a boatload.

I doubt it - the 22.5" scale and skinny neck would be seriously offputting to most buyers. They might work with a 24"-scale neck though, possibly.

I've owned two of these, for what it's worth - both butchered by the same idiot, from the similarity of the damage… I believe a certain John Birch.

Yeah, I guess it would need be modernised, or rather "normalised" somewhat, and would obviously have a modern C neck as Fender arent really capable of anything else outside of the custom shop.

ICBM

Limehouse_Blues said:

60th anniversary '57 LP Special. Proper fat neck not like the 60 neck profile Specials that Gibson CS have done in the past.

Curious how this has become so fashionable. I owned an original '57 LP Special, and the neck wasn't fat at all - it wasn't skinny, but it was nothing like what they call a '50s' neck now. Nor were any of the other three 50s Gibsons I've owned, nor most of the other ones I've played and worked on. I hate fat necks so I would definitely have noticed .

lasermonkey

Fender Electric XII (and subsequently a Maverick/Custom).

Sassafras

Travis Bean and those Kramer aluminium necked guitars with the forked peghead.

WezV

Veganic said:

WezV said:

Veganic said:

Gibson Corvus.   Just to see if its time has come.

I have always had an idea that it could work brilliantly as a headless, and after discussing this years ago on project guitar some people even made them.  I speculated that gibson possibly designed the shape to be headless originally but went cheap instead

I drew a few designs but never got around to making one

That makes sense.  It looks a bit like one of those Kiesels? 

Much nicer.

Well I drew that about 10 years ago, it's about the time Strandberg was doing his first prototype single string bridges....well before the recent resurgence in headless guitars.

guitars4you

what about the Gibson Moderne ?

or can't you reissue a guitar that was never released ?

richardhomer

guitars4you said:

what about the Gibson Moderne ?

or can't you reissue a guitar that was never released ?

Didn't Gibson do a run of these in the early 80s? I may have imagined this....

Edit: Just checked - I was right.

WezV

guitars4you said:

what about the Gibson Moderne ?

or can't you reissue a guitar that was never released ?

They already did a "reissue" in the 80's and an actual reissue in 2012 iirc.  And an epi version.

none look as good as mine

Alnico

richardhomer said:

guitars4you said:

what about the Gibson Moderne ?

or can't you reissue a guitar that was never released ?

Didn't Gibson do a run of these in the early 80s? I may have imagined this....

No, i remember this too somehow

guitars4you

richardhomer said:

guitars4you said:

what about the Gibson Moderne ?

or can't you reissue a guitar that was never released ?

Didn't Gibson do a run of these in the early 80s? I may have imagined this....

Edit: Just checked - I was right.

correct - but I don't think I've actually played one or seen one in the flesh - yet with no real interest in a V or Explorer I dare say a Moderne would leave me with similar feelings

Did Ibanez do one as well sometime in the past ? - which again is pretty rare