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My very first visit to the Rickenbacker website (the old one) and I'd fallen in love with this color. Yes, it actually has some metallic properties to the paint. (I had a bicycle seat back in the 60's for my "Stingray" knock-off that looked almost like this, at least to my aging memory!)

Not sure if Classic Axe did a setup or not. Agree that the humidity/temperature/shipping issues can mess with a lot of things, but I'll tell you if you tried the D-G harmonics on the 5th/7th frets, and then tried fretting the notes, they were so far off it was scarry. The same G pair was also quite flat when fretted on the 12the fret, so it seemed to be localized to that particular pair.

Since NOBODY in town had one to play, I bought this guitar on blind faith, which for me was quite a leap, having never done that before. Right now I'm happy but not estatic--that'll happen when I get the nut spacing taken care of. BTW, the nut issue also surprised me because I have extremely short, skinny fingers. (Don't even get me near a fullsize classical guitar Image ) I can only imagine how people with big fingers manage a C chord with the stock nut.

I was considering ordering a 620-12 but am now reconsidering a 660-12 instead, assuming the wider neck means wider spacing (not to mention the different bridge and the Toasters.)

Thanks for all of your support!
"It's got to be the going, not the getting there that's good."
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