Please Help I.D. This Rare Rickenbacker 12 String

[krick]

Interesting. Reminds me of a 4005 WB.

[wim]

That's a truly interesting piece.
And now all together: "REISSUE! "

[kennyhowes]

WOW

[collin]

And now all together: "REISSUE! "

+1 !

Would technically not even be a "reissue" since this was never an available model.

[scotty]

Welcome to the RRF Richard Nice introduction Thats one cool cat youve posted there

[jdogric12]

And now all together: "REISSUE! "

+1 !

Would technically not even be a "reissue" since this was never an available model.

Issue

[Chicken Wing]

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.

[Ontario_RIC_fan]

"WK" are the first 2 letters on the jack plate.

November 1983



The next number is a 1

The number after that is a 5 or a 6

(Low production numbers in general in 1983)...

[Ontario_RIC_fan]

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?

[jwilli]

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.

[electrofaro]

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?

Our man of details, Brian!

Interesting item, though!

[beatlefan]

stunning....I thought it was a 4005 body, as well!

I love when these one offs pop up!

[8mileshigh]

So what's it worth? $4k?

[paologregorio]

It's a 360 new style silhouette that's double bound. I prefer the pointy horns myself, but this is quite unique. . .

[Ontario_RIC_fan]

Richard:

Any chance of some more images of this guitar? Particularly of the inside control cavity?