How does the Factory,guarantee against checking?

atomic_punk · Post by **atomic_punk** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 1:42 pm

Paul, I've got enough snow/frost/freezing right now in this "enchanted mitten" I live in, thank you!

Today's temp? A balmy 16 degrees.

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 5:24 pm

"Secret ingredient in the CV to prevent checking."

Nice apocrypha.

ghs_boomer · Post by **ghs_boomer** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 6:54 pm

My 4003 checked in several places. I posted photo's here somewhere.

alanz · Post by **alanz** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 7:24 pm

As a Slovene-American I generally don't worry about Czechs. Serbs, maybe; Czechs, no.

Sorry, what was the question?

jojo99 · Post by **jojo99** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 8:12 pm

So if I spray canned dust remover on my plain binding, it will become checked? Too cool! I'm gonna do it right now....

jojo99 · Post by **jojo99** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 8:13 pm

****! I shoulda read this thread more closely..."checked" isn't the same as "checkered", I just found out....

sloop_john_b · Post by **sloop_john_b** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 9:34 pm

I opened my 370/12BB right away, outside, on a warm-ish February day in NYC. I knew nothing of "acclimating" or what-have-you. I paid the price. No finish checking yet, but the finish has sort of "lifted" and cracked around the heel. Terribly unsightly.

ghs_boomer · Post by **ghs_boomer** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 5:35 am

Ok, the clear coat on my 4003 mapleglo "Cracked" in several places........gosh!!

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 6:35 am

My first Rick--a 660-12--arrived in mid-December from central Wisconsin, Next Day Air. I saw the notices on the box, took the case out of the packing box, and let it sit unopened for 48 hours.

When I took the case out of the box, the box was filled with FRIGID air. Yikes.

"A few hours" is NOT enough unless it's going from LA to San Diego. Do NOT open the case. Let the whole thing warm up gradually from the outside in.

randyz · Post by **randyz** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 7:35 am

While I never subject my guitars to sudden temperature changes, I find that Rickenbackers are much less prone to finish checking than other major manufacturers (i.e. Gibson/Epiphone, Gretsch, Hofner, etc). The original finishes on Ricks over 40-years-old are usually in great shape.

sabbath_of_bass · Post by **sabbath_of_bass** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 9:28 am

Paul I was reading my physics book the other day.... And You can freeze boiling water. With a vacuum or something. I got a kick out of that.