RIC acoustic guitar head count

firstbassman · Post by **firstbassman** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 5:17 pm

I notice that the Ric acoustics don't seem to have a pickguard. Or it is a transparent one. My Tacoma has a clear pickguard and to be frank about it, it's the one thing I don't like about an otherwise great guitar. To me, for an acoustic to look like a guitar, it has to have a black or tortoise shell pickguard. Know what I mean? Thoughts?

melibreits · Post by **melibreits** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 6:18 pm

No, Mark, they don't have a pickguard.... I kind of like that look myself--there's nothing to detract from the clean lines and gorgeous checkered soundhole binding.... However, I sometimes wish my Comstock had a transparent pickguard, because I am afraid that one day my vigorous strumming with the pick will do some kind of damage to the face of my lovely guitar!

loverickbass · Post by **loverickbass** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 3:07 am

You don't want to cover up that pretty wood do 'ya?

I would like to have one of those cool retro lookin' pickguards you see on the 60s acoustic guitars.

Cole

jwilli · Post by **jwilli** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 4:18 am

I like this one....its somewhere in Australia.

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longhouse · Post by **longhouse** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 5:13 am

Off with its head!

loverickbass · Post by **loverickbass** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 8:57 am

OHH, I likey! How old is it John?

jwilli · Post by **jwilli** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 9:26 am

Probably a 2000 or 2001 model.

loverickbass · Post by **loverickbass** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 9:41 am

OK, what's the story behind it?

jwilli · Post by **jwilli** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 10:14 am

I believe that the former Japanese distributor for RIC ordered a few that way. Maybe three were made. I thought I might get one but it never happened.

leftybass · Post by **leftybass** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 11:03 am

Wow, I was unaware they did some with the fishtail peghead. Damn that is cool.

firstbassman · Post by **firstbassman** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 11:36 am

Agree with "off with its head." Looks kind of goth.

I'm like you Melissa, I tend to strum very hard and am grateful for pickguards. You can buy one you know and stick it on yourself. Stewart-MacDonald is a great parts company (www.stewmac.com) and they have some.

jwilli · Post by **jwilli** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 1:58 pm

Check out these old fishtail acoustics......

melibreits · Post by **melibreits** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 2:53 pm

Cool.... the fishtail is certainly a different look!

Can't say I like those pickguards very much on those old guitars; a bit too showy for my taste.

loverickbass · Post by **loverickbass** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 2:56 pm

Wonder where one could get a pickguard like that made?

Cole

rick36 · Post by **rick36** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 3:38 pm

Regarding those "fishtails", this design probably went away because they were too scary for the Western market. No offence, but they look like the Devil - literally! I'll take one though...