John Hall has encouraged me to produce a very small number of acoustics to Rickenbacker specifications, but built and finished in my shop.
These are structurally and visually identical to standard Rick acoustics, but carry my own serial number plate inside each guitar. The pickguards, armrests, and TRCs are like my own 730L/12 and the 700S/12 that was used by Marty Willson-Piper and Paul Kantner. (However, the pickguard will not carry the RIC75th logo that you may have seen on Kantner's guitar.)
These acoustics will be finished in tasteful, but non-standard colors which will make each one unique. Fretboards will be fully finished like those on Rick electrics.
The production of these is going to be very limited in number; these are being done alongside my usual restoration and refinishing work, and since I'm a one-man operation, they will be produced one at a time.
The first will be a 700C six-string in Aquaglo burst, like the 325 that I posted pictures of, and that many of you saw at the RIC75 shindig.
Scheduled completion of this guitar is my birthday, September 29th. It will ship in a RIC hardshell case. Its buildup will be covered in this topic area.
Here are the first pictures; the 700C as it is today, ready for sealing:
Beautifully-even grained spruce top with trademark checkerboard-bound sound hole.
Nice rippled figuring on the maple back!
Typical Rick walnut center strip on neck and wings on headstock.
I can add an LR Baggs iMix dual element pickup system with endpin jack, at extra cost and upon request.
Anyone who is interested in owning this one-of-a-kind Rickenbacker Comstock, can contact me offlist at the e-mail address given in my profile. As a matter of courtesy to purchasers, I would like to keep monetary issues out of this column.
NOTE: These guitars are not intended to fill the pipeline of outstanding RIC acoustic orders--those will be handled by RIC in their usual way, when they get their acoustic production up and running again.
