1966 Rickenbacker 360 with "upgrades".
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1966 Rickenbacker 360 with "upgrades".
Don't you just love auctions with descriptive titles like that?
Re: 1966 Rickenbacker 360 with "upgrades".
Where did you find this one Mitch?
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Re: 1966 Rickenbacker 360 with "upgrades".
Isn't that the P.O.S. upgrade package?
Re: 1966 Rickenbacker 360 with "upgrades".
Yeah, must be! I wonder if it can be restored? (In other words how much wood was removed to install the new pickups?)lennon211 wrote:Isn't that the P.O.S. upgrade package?
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Re: 1966 Rickenbacker 360 with "upgrades".
Eeeeeewwwwww......
Why, oh why, oh WHY do people do things like that?
Why, oh why, oh WHY do people do things like that?
Re: 1966 Rickenbacker 360 with "upgrades".
People who do this should be made to show up a an RRF confluence and explain just what they were hoping to accomplish
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Re: 1966 Rickenbacker 360 with "upgrades".
This is exactly what was done to my 330. Yes it can be saved. Watch out for the neck though. As on mine, the amount of wood removed from the top and neck under the top to accommodate the humbucker may cause it to want to become a travel guitar. The solution is to replace the the missing wood from the top by inserting a maple puck thereby bracing the edge of the neck against the new piece and in turn against the edge of the pickup hole. If you are good you can make it work and paint it JetGlo and there you are. My 330 had issues before I did this. Now it has more sustain and is stable. Unfortunately since I am not a wood worker, this also required(and I shudder) two screws in the back.
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Re: 1966 Rickenbacker 360 with "upgrades".
It can be saved. The missing wood needs to be carefully replaced and tightly fitted.
Here's a gorgeous old '69 36s OS that I repaired and restored. It went from MG to AZ, and was a stunner once gain. Previous owner had stuffed humbuckers into it, doing the "mods" with the butcher's favorite--a Dremel tool, fitted with a 1/2" sanding drum, and turned up to "11". Then a music store fitted it with toasters on HUGE black foam pads, in an effort to get it sold.
Photobucket album:
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v693/ ... storation/
As with all my albums, password is rick46812
This one was unique--it had factory injection-molded top AND bottom guards (a brief experiment). Unfortunately the ultra-rare top guard had been chopped to fit the humbuckers, too.
Here's a gorgeous old '69 36s OS that I repaired and restored. It went from MG to AZ, and was a stunner once gain. Previous owner had stuffed humbuckers into it, doing the "mods" with the butcher's favorite--a Dremel tool, fitted with a 1/2" sanding drum, and turned up to "11". Then a music store fitted it with toasters on HUGE black foam pads, in an effort to get it sold.
Photobucket album:
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v693/ ... storation/
As with all my albums, password is rick46812
This one was unique--it had factory injection-molded top AND bottom guards (a brief experiment). Unfortunately the ultra-rare top guard had been chopped to fit the humbuckers, too.
Re: 1966 Rickenbacker 360 with "upgrades".
Paul,
You have a true gift for descriptions - "with the butcher's favorite--a Dremel tool".
Nice one!
You have a true gift for descriptions - "with the butcher's favorite--a Dremel tool".
Nice one!
Re: 1966 Rickenbacker 360 with "upgrades".
So, is there any issues with the filler wood pieces? I mean, it seems reasonable to get a good fit and be able to cover it with an opaque finish, but since there's a seam between 2 different pieces of wood, is there any risk of it showing through the finish due to different expansion/ageing, etc.?
I have NO idea what to do with those skinny stringed things... I'm just a bass player...
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Re: 1966 Rickenbacker 360 with "upgrades".
You bet there is. There will usually be witness lines, as the new wood is seldom of the same density and moisture content as the old. But there are a couple of ways that I've recently tested, that eliminate the lines completely. You're still looking at a very dark translucent, or opaque, finish, however.
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Re: 1966 Rickenbacker 360 with "upgrades".
I'm probably alone in not being bothered by this. It's a guitar, and people tend to modify them so they play and sound how they like.
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You're not alone. Of course, I think it'd be much better left alone, original etc, but I can certainly understand how/why it was modified.freshmattyp wrote:I'm probably alone in not being bothered by this. It's a guitar, and people tend to modify them so they play and sound how they like.
As much as we all love Rics and Vintage guitars, there was a time when people revered neither (I think they called it the seventies...) Humbuckers were IN, and if some guy wanted that "Gibson" sound, but had "some old" Ric, why not fit some humbuckers in there? Probably not the best idea in hindsight, but I can understand it. At least it's a fairly standard NS 365 that was hacked up, not like the OS that Paul saved.