Re: Other Guitars Incorporating Rickenbacker Design Elements
Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2022 3:02 pm
by T28
I picked up one of those Jacksons a few months ago when Musicians Friend had an overstock sale for $499. For that price it was well worth the investment. Overall build is pretty nice and I only had to make minor adjustments and tweaks to get things the way i like them. Down the road i will probably change out the pups but for now it is a good sounding and playing bass that feels similar to a Rick. IMO it is the perfect dive bar bass.
Re: Other Guitars Incorporating Rickenbacker Design Elements
Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2022 1:34 am
by Korladis
T28 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 07, 2022 3:02 pm
I picked up one of those Jacksons a few months ago when Musicians Friend had an overstock sale for $499. For that price it was well worth the investment. Overall build is pretty nice and I only had to make minor adjustments and tweaks to get things the way i like them. Down the road i will probably change out the pups but for now it is a good sounding and playing bass that feels similar to a Rick. IMO it is the perfect dive bar bass.
I usually just play my Ricks in dive bars.
Re: Other Guitars Incorporating Rickenbacker Design Elements
T28 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 07, 2022 3:02 pm
I picked up one of those Jacksons a few months ago when Musicians Friend had an overstock sale for $499. For that price it was well worth the investment. Overall build is pretty nice and I only had to make minor adjustments and tweaks to get things the way i like them. Down the road i will probably change out the pups but for now it is a good sounding and playing bass that feels similar to a Rick. IMO it is the perfect dive bar bass.
I usually just play my Ricks in dive bars.
Here's me playing one of my Ricks in a dive bar.
Re: Other Guitars Incorporating Rickenbacker Design Elements
T28 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 07, 2022 3:02 pm
I picked up one of those Jacksons a few months ago when Musicians Friend had an overstock sale for $499. For that price it was well worth the investment. Overall build is pretty nice and I only had to make minor adjustments and tweaks to get things the way i like them. Down the road i will probably change out the pups but for now it is a good sounding and playing bass that feels similar to a Rick. IMO it is the perfect dive bar bass.
I usually just play my Ricks in dive bars.
Here's me playing one of my Ricks in a dive bar.
That was to celebrate my having the bass for 30 years at that point. I don't remember what it had to drink.
Re: Other Guitars Incorporating Rickenbacker Design Elements
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2022 1:35 pm
by jps
Came across this in an ad in VG.
Re: Other Guitars Incorporating Rickenbacker Design Elements
Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2022 3:02 am
by Korladis
jps wrote: ↑Tue Feb 22, 2022 1:35 pm
Came across this in an ad in VG.
Rocca Guitars.jpg
That looks pretty cool. Referencing the Rickenbacker style sound-holes without being a clone of them.
Re: Other Guitars Incorporating Rickenbacker Design Elements
Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2022 6:40 pm
by Dom
Anyone else notice the glaring similarities between the “new” Gibson Theodore and the Ric tulips? I think I can guess as to why that Gibson was never released…
…which gets me hypothesizing that Rossmeisl brought it to Rickenbacker after he left Gibson and beat them to it.
Re: Other Guitars Incorporating Rickenbacker Design Elements
Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2022 5:51 pm
by iiipopes
Dom wrote: ↑Thu Mar 24, 2022 6:40 pm
Anyone else notice the glaring similarities between the “new” Gibson Theodore and the Ric tulips? I think I can guess as to why that Gibson was never released…
…which gets me hypothesizing that Rossmeisl brought it to Rickenbacker after he left Gibson and beat them to it.
Yeah, not disguised too well, is it. But I think the body shape may have been discontinued by Rickenbacker before they started trademarking everything, so this one, as well as guitars that look like Combo 600's as I first posted, may get by as having been lost to public domain.
Re: Other Guitars Incorporating Rickenbacker Design Elements
Dom wrote: ↑Thu Mar 24, 2022 6:40 pm
Anyone else notice the glaring similarities between the “new” Gibson Theodore and the Ric tulips? I think I can guess as to why that Gibson was never released…
…which gets me hypothesizing that Rossmeisl brought it to Rickenbacker after he left Gibson and beat them to it.
Yeah, not disguised too well, is it. But I think the body shape may have been discontinued by Rickenbacker before they started trademarking everything, so this one, as well as guitars that look like Combo 600's as I first posted, may get by as having been lost to public domain. Gibson-Theodore@2000x1500-696x522.jpg
Re: Other Guitars Incorporating Rickenbacker Design Elements
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2022 10:51 pm
by Dom
“Experience” shares of a guitar you can never own! That is the most Gibson thing to do. The one I had fell apart at a rate eerily similar to that valuation chart…
Re: Other Guitars Incorporating Rickenbacker Design Elements
Posted: Fri May 06, 2022 2:51 pm
by iiipopes
I just saw this on TalkBass, and the thread author admits to the design being inspired by the Combo 600 body shape, and note the headstock shape: https://www.talkbass.com/threads/combol ... t.1561678/
One of many images on the thread:
Re: Other Guitars Incorporating Rickenbacker Design Elements
Posted: Sat May 07, 2022 1:59 am
by espidog
Ewwww... that's WAY too close for comfort, especially the headstock.
