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Hi,


John it's beauty you've got here! I too have a 1982 Rick 330 JG like yours but it has Kluson tuners and toasters pickups (I am wondering if the first owner removed the Hi gains...).

Why it has a silver undercoat? Mine has nothing like this.


Cheers,

LS

They sound rather hot actually, I'll check how I could mesure the resistance of my pickups.

Seems impossible to find another Ric of early 80's with such toasters over the Internet. Maybe someone has some pictures?

I don't really understand what you say by "dimples"? The two black lines on each pickup?

And thank you all for your help and comments :)))

4 dots... one at each end of each line.

https://goo.gl/images/5GYxMR


Oh I see.... There are no dots at all. It means they are not from early 80's?

The toasters of the 80's and 90's are hotter wound, more similar to hi-gains. In '99 RIC switched to "scatterwound" 7.4kOhm toasters, more similar to the ones from the 60's. Those early 60's toasters, and the new reissues, the toaster black lines have little dimples in the corners. hard to see in ...

Hello!

Thank you all for the kind comments :)

I don't see any dimples on the toasters, why?

I read somewhere on the forum that the toasters produced in the 80's are different from the ones available now. But what is the difference?
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It's my very first post on this forum. I live in Lyon, France, and I am 25 years old. I especially like The Smiths, so that's why I play on a black Rickenbacker 330.... :)
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