Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

I don't know if you remember my post on my March '65 365, but I came to the conclusion that it originally left the factory as a 360. The "Ac'cent by Paul" tailpiece dates way before 1965 and underneath is the impression and original screw holes of an "R" tailpiece bracket, not to...

Were the original "R" tailpieces cast from brass rather than Zamac? A while ago I bought an older tailpiece that appears to be cast brass.

Thanks, guys for all of the suggestions! I decided to go ahead and get a replacement speaker to get my Princeton Reverb working again. I was considering an Eminence Ragin Cajun but opted for the 20 watt GA10-SC64 Allesandro instead. It turns out to be a match made in guitar amp Heaven! The bass is s...

Can anyone recommend a good guitar speaker repair shop? A month ago, my '78 Princeton Reverb's original speaker failed. I've always loved the sound of the amp and would like to get the this speaker redone. I don't mind sending it out of state.

Years ago, I always used Rickenbacker's .010 12 string set. Curiously, I liked .011 Chet Atkins sets on my 6 strings, but the .010s were just so uncomfortable for me on my 360/12, that I started using a customized set of '009s, using Ernie Ball Super Slinkys with added single strings to form a 12 st...

I use the EB .008s on both my ''66 360/12 and 360/12V64. Both guitars sound great with them. I play the guitars with and without the Janglebox and still get a nice, well-balanced sound. A friend from school, who plays an acoustic 12 string was over a while ago and I showed him the V64. After playing...

A while ago, I found a 1966 Guyatone GA-530 amplifier to go with my Guyatone Telstar. Like a lot of Japanese amps from that era, it is quite bright-sounding. This afternoon, I had my Rick 360/12V64 down at the shop, and wondered what the Rickenbacker 12 string would sound like through the 530. It wa...

I think Stewart MacDonald owns the Waverly trade name now. Those machines on the Martin you pictured are Modern Waverly copies of the old Grover Sta-Tite machines. Gretsch uses them on a lot of their reissue guitars now. I wish StewMac would reissue the plain Gretsch Waverly heads (Harmony and a few...

In the early '70s through the Booneville, Arkansas factory closure, Gretsch used these machines. I think they were manufactured by Höfner. I've heard them referred to as "Pyramid" tuners. I always called them "doghouse" tuners.

Gretsch used these Van Ghents starting in the early '60s.

These are the Waverly tuners Gretsch used from the 1950s through the late '60s/early '70s.

The mute was made by Meazzi and called a Meazzi Stoppatore. They came on several models of Meazzi Hollywood guitars.

I know this is an old thread, but in the interest of accuracy, I need to correct something I posted. The rounded button open back machines Gretsch used were made by Waverly, not Grover. Gretsch did use Grover Sta-tites in the '30s and '40s, and continues to use them today, but in the '50s they start...

Same ones on my '82 4001.

Thanks for the clarification, Collin. I've only seen a few Ricks with the Van Ghents, and they were '60s models. Page 6 of the 1968 catalog shows a couple of acoustics with the pearl button machines. one of the archtops has Grover Imperial stairstep machines on it.