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...but a late-model Fireglo 330 is as close to common as Ricks get, so, any distinguishing features you can identify---any nicks or dings, or pattern in the wood grain---will really help people to figure out whether a 330 might be YOUR guitar. Pics would be really helpful.

It's strange that this ...

By no means do I plan to give up hope--but I do, frankly, plan to start looking for a new guitar. If anyone has some suggestions, I'm open to them (or should I make a new thread for that question?). I'm not sure if I could handle getting another Ric right away, because my 330 had started to really ...

I've notified every local Guitar Center, and all Chicago pawn shops are required by law to report their inventory daily (so that it can be checked against stolen goods reports). But if the sale happened on the street, for cash, then none of that really matters.

Again, thanks, everybody.

Thanks again for all the sympathy, everybody. I don't think that I have any particularly good pictures of it, and I still can't find any documentation with the serial number (can you even believe that Sam Ash doesn't track the serial numbers of the guitars they sell?).

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I appreciate the kind words, everyone. Thanks.

The guitar is in perfect or nearly perfect condition, as I kept it safely in its case whenever I wasn't playing it. I purchased it new in July, 2004, but I do not know definitively in what year it was made.

Hi everyone.

My apartment in Chicago, IL was burglarized over the Thanksgiving weekend. Among the stolen goods was my Rickenbacker 330. It's a 6-string, in Fireglow Red Sunburst. It was in a hard-shell case covered with stickers, and that case also contained a guitar strap made of an old seatbelt ...