Please Help I.D. This Rare Rickenbacker 12 String
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Re: Please Help I.D. This Rare Rickenbacker 12 String
Interesting. Reminds me of a 4005 WB.
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That's a truly interesting piece.
And now all together: "REISSUE! "
And now all together: "REISSUE! "
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Re: Please Help I.D. This Rare Rickenbacker 12 String
+1 !wim wrote: And now all together: "REISSUE! "
Would technically not even be a "reissue" since this was never an available model.
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Welcome to the RRF Richard Nice introduction Thats one cool cat youve posted there
Re: Please Help I.D. This Rare Rickenbacker 12 String
collin wrote:+1 !wim wrote: And now all together: "REISSUE! "
Would technically not even be a "reissue" since this was never an available model.
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Re: Please Help I.D. This Rare Rickenbacker 12 String
Thanks, guys...it's not mine but I have owned a few Rickenbackers. It's a beautiful guitar. I was mistaken yesterday....."WK" are the first 2 letters on the jack plate.
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Re: Please Help I.D. This Rare Rickenbacker 12 String
November 1983Chicken Wing wrote:"WK" are the first 2 letters on the jack plate.
The next number is a 1
The number after that is a 5 or a 6
(Low production numbers in general in 1983)...
Brian Morton
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Re: Please Help I.D. This Rare Rickenbacker 12 String
The actual range is between WJ1495 (An October JG 310) and WL1627 (Which was a December FG B Series 360 12 String)
So that is 129 numbers (133 numbers minus the 4 already registered in the RRF) that this instrument might be - Again very low production in late 1983.
Don't you just love consecutive serial numbers?
So that is 129 numbers (133 numbers minus the 4 already registered in the RRF) that this instrument might be - Again very low production in late 1983.
Don't you just love consecutive serial numbers?
Brian Morton
A Rickenbacker Fan
in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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67 FG 625
74 JG 4000
76 JG 430
77 JG 620
77 JG 320
79 MG 450
79 JG 4001
80 FG 620/12
81 BG 480
91 JG 610
02 BG 620
78 TR7
83 TR25
A Rickenbacker Fan
in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
=========================
67 FG 625
74 JG 4000
76 JG 430
77 JG 620
77 JG 320
79 MG 450
79 JG 4001
80 FG 620/12
81 BG 480
91 JG 610
02 BG 620
78 TR7
83 TR25
Re: Please Help I.D. This Rare Rickenbacker 12 String
jwilli wrote:I know that this guitar is rare but Toshio Sagabe emailed me once that he had found a lightshow with a body like this at the factory........it wasn't in a finished state and I don't know if it ever was finished.
Well shut my mouth...I just found the email from 1999 from Toshio Sagabe. He mentioned that he saw a body at the factory that was a new style but double bound. No mention of a lightshow. I must've been dreaming.
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Re: Please Help I.D. This Rare Rickenbacker 12 String
Our man of details, Brian!Ontario_RIC_fan wrote:The actual range is between WJ1495 (An October JG 310) and WL1627 (Which was a December FG B Series 360 12 String)
So that is 129 numbers (133 numbers minus the 4 already registered in the RRF) that this instrument might be - Again very low production in late 1983.
Don't you just love consecutive serial numbers?
Interesting item, though!
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Re: Please Help I.D. This Rare Rickenbacker 12 String
stunning....I thought it was a 4005 body, as well!
I love when these one offs pop up!
I love when these one offs pop up!
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1986 4003 Shadow
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Re: Please Help I.D. This Rare Rickenbacker 12 String
So what's it worth? $4k?
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Re: Please Help I.D. This Rare Rickenbacker 12 String
It's a 360 new style silhouette that's double bound. I prefer the pointy horns myself, but this is quite unique. . .
There is no reason to ever be bored.
...why yes, I suppose I do have a double bound guitar fetish...
"Uh, I like the double bounds. . . ."
...why yes, I suppose I do have a double bound guitar fetish...
"Uh, I like the double bounds. . . ."
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Re: Please Help I.D. This Rare Rickenbacker 12 String
Richard:
Any chance of some more images of this guitar? Particularly of the inside control cavity?
Any chance of some more images of this guitar? Particularly of the inside control cavity?
Brian Morton
A Rickenbacker Fan
in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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67 FG 625
74 JG 4000
76 JG 430
77 JG 620
77 JG 320
79 MG 450
79 JG 4001
80 FG 620/12
81 BG 480
91 JG 610
02 BG 620
78 TR7
83 TR25
A Rickenbacker Fan
in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
=========================
67 FG 625
74 JG 4000
76 JG 430
77 JG 620
77 JG 320
79 MG 450
79 JG 4001
80 FG 620/12
81 BG 480
91 JG 610
02 BG 620
78 TR7
83 TR25