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- Fri Feb 23, 2024 9:20 pm
- Forum: Rickenbacker Guitars: Vintage Years - Before 1973
- Topic: Older "R" Tailpiece Casting Material
- Replies: 3
- Views: 762
Re: Older "R" Tailpiece Casting Material
I don't know if you remember my post on my March '65 365, but I came to the conclusion that it originally left the factory as a 360. The "Ac'cent by Paul" tailpiece dates way before 1965 and underneath is the impression and original screw holes of an "R" tailpiece bracket, not to...
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 5:59 am
- Forum: Rickenbacker Guitars: Vintage Years - Before 1973
- Topic: Older "R" Tailpiece Casting Material
- Replies: 3
- Views: 762
Older "R" Tailpiece Casting Material
Were the original "R" tailpieces cast from brass rather than Zamac? A while ago I bought an older tailpiece that appears to be cast brass.
- Sun Jan 28, 2024 4:18 am
- Forum: Greg's Amplifier and Tube Tech Forum: by Greg Simon
- Topic: Good Speaker Reconing Shop
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1106
Re: Good Speaker Reconing Shop
Thanks, guys for all of the suggestions! I decided to go ahead and get a replacement speaker to get my Princeton Reverb working again. I was considering an Eminence Ragin Cajun but opted for the 20 watt GA10-SC64 Allesandro instead. It turns out to be a match made in guitar amp Heaven! The bass is s...
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 11:01 pm
- Forum: Greg's Amplifier and Tube Tech Forum: by Greg Simon
- Topic: Good Speaker Reconing Shop
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1106
Good Speaker Reconing Shop
Can anyone recommend a good guitar speaker repair shop? A month ago, my '78 Princeton Reverb's original speaker failed. I've always loved the sound of the amp and would like to get the this speaker redone. I don't mind sending it out of state.
- Thu Apr 13, 2023 3:01 pm
- Forum: Rickenbacker General: by Howard Bishop
- Topic: Ernie Ball 12-String 8-40 Gauge
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1299
Re: Ernie Ball 12-String 8-40 Gauge
Years ago, I always used Rickenbacker's .010 12 string set. Curiously, I liked .011 Chet Atkins sets on my 6 strings, but the .010s were just so uncomfortable for me on my 360/12, that I started using a customized set of '009s, using Ernie Ball Super Slinkys with added single strings to form a 12 st...
- Sat Apr 08, 2023 4:29 pm
- Forum: Rickenbacker General: by Howard Bishop
- Topic: Ernie Ball 12-String 8-40 Gauge
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1299
Re: Ernie Ball 12-String 8-40 Gauge
I use the EB .008s on both my ''66 360/12 and 360/12V64. Both guitars sound great with them. I play the guitars with and without the Janglebox and still get a nice, well-balanced sound. A friend from school, who plays an acoustic 12 string was over a while ago and I showed him the V64. After playing...
- Fri Apr 07, 2023 9:47 pm
- Forum: Rickenbacker General: by Howard Bishop
- Topic: A Match Made In Heaven
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1965
A Match Made In Heaven
A while ago, I found a 1966 Guyatone GA-530 amplifier to go with my Guyatone Telstar. Like a lot of Japanese amps from that era, it is quite bright-sounding. This afternoon, I had my Rick 360/12V64 down at the shop, and wondered what the Rickenbacker 12 string would sound like through the 530. It wa...
- Thu Dec 29, 2022 5:48 am
- Forum: Going Gretsch Forum:
- Topic: I found my old Gretsch Nashville !
- Replies: 37
- Views: 13348
Re: I found my old Gretsch Nashville !
I think Stewart MacDonald owns the Waverly trade name now. Those machines on the Martin you pictured are Modern Waverly copies of the old Grover Sta-Tite machines. Gretsch uses them on a lot of their reissue guitars now. I wish StewMac would reissue the plain Gretsch Waverly heads (Harmony and a few...
- Wed Dec 28, 2022 8:20 pm
- Forum: Going Gretsch Forum:
- Topic: I found my old Gretsch Nashville !
- Replies: 37
- Views: 13348
Re: I found my old Gretsch Nashville !
In the early '70s through the Booneville, Arkansas factory closure, Gretsch used these machines. I think they were manufactured by Höfner. I've heard them referred to as "Pyramid" tuners. I always called them "doghouse" tuners.
- Wed Dec 28, 2022 8:15 pm
- Forum: Going Gretsch Forum:
- Topic: I found my old Gretsch Nashville !
- Replies: 37
- Views: 13348
Re: I found my old Gretsch Nashville !
Gretsch used these Van Ghents starting in the early '60s.
- Wed Dec 28, 2022 8:08 pm
- Forum: Going Gretsch Forum:
- Topic: I found my old Gretsch Nashville !
- Replies: 37
- Views: 13348
Re: I found my old Gretsch Nashville !
These are the Waverly tuners Gretsch used from the 1950s through the late '60s/early '70s.
- Wed Dec 28, 2022 5:34 am
- Forum: Going Gretsch Forum:
- Topic: Cool Gretsch Gadgets!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2482
Re: Cool Gretsch Gadgets!
The mute was made by Meazzi and called a Meazzi Stoppatore. They came on several models of Meazzi Hollywood guitars.
- Wed Dec 28, 2022 5:19 am
- Forum: Going Gretsch Forum:
- Topic: I found my old Gretsch Nashville !
- Replies: 37
- Views: 13348
Re: I found my old Gretsch Nashville !
I know this is an old thread, but in the interest of accuracy, I need to correct something I posted. The rounded button open back machines Gretsch used were made by Waverly, not Grover. Gretsch did use Grover Sta-tites in the '30s and '40s, and continues to use them today, but in the '50s they start...
- Tue Mar 10, 2020 2:05 am
- Forum: Rickenbacker General: by Howard Bishop
- Topic: STRANGE INLAYS
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5168
Re: STRANGE INLAYS
Same ones on my '82 4001.
- Mon Oct 14, 2019 7:39 pm
- Forum: Rickenbacker General: by Howard Bishop
- Topic: Van Ghents?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6215
Re: Van Ghents?
Thanks for the clarification, Collin. I've only seen a few Ricks with the Van Ghents, and they were '60s models. Page 6 of the 1968 catalog shows a couple of acoustics with the pearl button machines. one of the archtops has Grover Imperial stairstep machines on it.