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I would not recommend the plastic cleaner you linked above. There is nothing plastic about the finish of a Rickenbacker, it's a paint so you need cleaner wax for paint. There are a lot of things that qualify as plastics, even if they are sprayed on like paint. RIC instruments are finished with a &q...

Cool old magazines, brings back a lot of memories of looking through similar publications in my teens...

Yeah, pretty funny. I wonder how those Jack's are gonna work...

Out of tune? Nah, he's just a jazz guitarist...

A 4005! What a way to make an entrance! Welcome to the RRF!

Happy New Year to all!

Sad news indeed...

mike_d wrote:

kennyhowes wrote:why are we talking about Bon Jovi

Beats me, Kenny. Probably because we were discussing “knobs”?

This has been discussed several times before on the forum, here's one thread: http://www.rickresource.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=400327&p=683741&hilit=3001+controls#p683692 As this thread points out, the original catalog called these "Treble boost" and "Bass boost"...

I'll add to the discussion with the idea of paying huge prices for a guitar that was owned by someone famous. Will it make you a better player because someone famous owned it? Will it sound better?

Welcome to the forum, Jon!

Interesting question, seems it might be easier for bass players to understand.

I've only got experience with 5-string banjos, usually tuned open G...

I'm on facebook, but this seems to me a better place for in depth discussions . Given that most folks are on FB these days, there's not much of this anymore, here. But, it seems things are picking up a bit here lately. I'm on FB as well as here, but I'm REALLY getting tired of it. Perhaps others ar...

We could do it the new, modern way, with Zoom...

Could be a number of reasons for differences in sound, strings being one. There may be changes in the level of magnetism in the pickup magnets too, some older types could lose strength with age. The pickups may have been wound differently. The capacitors in the tone circuit can also change with age ...