Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

Rob - I appreciate you clarifying your response and, actually, I was talking about morality more than I was talking about the quality of merchandise made in certain countries (China). A few years ago I was involved in the "Free Tibet" movement. At that time, I made a point of boycotting all things ...

I'm sorry, did I post this on the wrong thread? I thought I was reading about cheaper, entry level, possibly Made in China guitars from RIC to appeal to a younger audience. Its early......I'm still asleep......must get coffee.........

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it". Ric has..... what, a two year waiting list? I love the fact that every part, even the outsourced parts are "Made in the U.S.A.". Rickenbacker is a boutique outfit, not a corporate megalopolist. That's why we love 'em. I would hate to see cheap Rickenbackers coming ...

Dusan - I do think that I will pass on the 420. I think that I will buy back the '59 Duo Sonic from the store that I traded it to a few months ago. The owner will probably give me a price close to what he gave me as a trade-in (I'm a good customer). Its a nice little thing in desert sand with maple ...

That was an entertaining video and a very "manly" Gretsch 6120 that Courtney is playing. I can definitely hear the Billy Corgan influences as well as the homage to Cheap Trick. I never gave "Celebrity Skin" a fair listen. The talk at the time was that Courtney was only interested in being a movie ...

Hey,.... I finally figured out what TRC stands for and its not The Rickenbacker Company!

I seem to remember that Courtney did like "little" guitars. I think I saw her with a Fender Mustang or Duo Sonic in a photo. She was wearing one of those baby doll dresses she favored at that time. The first ...

Wow...., Thanks Darren! Your's is a beautiful example, but I would imagine that the metal trussrod cover models command pretty high prices. The one that I'm looking at is on Willie's American Guitars website. It is a FG '71 with a single toaster p'up. One thing I always look for on a Rickenbacker is ...

"I'm a gonna raise a fuss, I'm a gonna raise a collar?"

"Ain't no cure for the summertime balls?"

Great stuff - thanks! It made me laugh the morning after oral surgery!

OK,......... my thread on '70's Rickenbackers had an ulterior motive. I've been wanting a small, light, probably single p'up vintage guitar to just have sitting out near the computer, to try out new ideas, or something I just learned, or to walk around the house playing unplugged or plugged. And yet ...

So true, Beatlefreak. But if I was in the market for a new custom shop guitar, I would buy it the same way I buy a car - certified pre-owned. Let somebody else pay the depreciation. Also, there are great guitars that are a bargain. The Bill Nash guitars that we talked about on another thread and the ...

I really didn't want to go into the "are vintage guitars better than new guitars" argument. I brought up the subject of "did Rickenbacker escape the general decline of guitar quality in the '70's" because I thought that everybody excepted the FACT that the acquisition on Fender, Gibson, and Gretsch ...

Dusan - I don't think that it's snobbery at all to say that Fender, Gretsch, and Gibson suffered in the years when corporate bean counters called the shots instead of real guitar guys. Look at the bracing in a '70's Gibson acoustic - they look like broomsticks! Fender went to kiln dried instead of ...

We all know about Fender's sale to CBS, Gibson to Norlin, and Gretsch to Baldwin in the mid-'60's. These resulted in cost cutting and a general decline in quality, sound, and playability that had fully set in by the early '70's. Martin remained a family owned company, but post-69 they were cut of ...

It might have been tastier in Mapleglo........! Best wishes.

Paul - that's the most intelligent thing anyone (especially me) has said in this whole discussion.

Bravo!