360 with vintage tailpiece

shackleton · Post by **shackleton** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 8:23 am

Has any one seen a 360/6 with a vintage tail piece? Isn't the hole spacing and number of screws different?

sloop_john_b · Post by **sloop_john_b** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 8:52 am

Yep, but one could always drill the extra holes if they wanted to.

Here's one from the Pickguardian site, except it's a 360/12.

steverok · Post by **steverok** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 11:59 am

You should drill holes into the bracket for the trapeze tail piece, not the guitar. I did it this way.

jcb1100 · Post by **jcb1100** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 6:44 pm

Whose signature is that on the gold guard?

sloop_john_b · Post by **sloop_john_b** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 6:50 pm

Pickguardian makes personalized signature pickguards, and thats one of them. Steve Brodbeck?

jcb1100 · Post by **jcb1100** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 7:36 pm

Thanks, I couldn't tell if it was personalized, or I missed a signature model!

shackleton · Post by **shackleton** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 9:34 am

I won an auction for a black 360 with a vintage tail piece. I am wondering if it could have come from the factory like that? He says he got it from a hardcore Ric guy who lived near Ric and my have ordered it that way. It also has scatter wound toasters. I just won it and wont get it until next week.

jps · Post by **jps** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 3:33 pm

Congrats Eric!

sloop_john_b · Post by **sloop_john_b** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 3:34 pm

At least as of late, you don't get to choose what tailpiece you want, unless it's an Accent Vibrato upgrade.

shackleton · Post by **shackleton** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 9:27 pm

Thanks. I love the look with the vintage tail. Some say it looks cheap. I guess to some a 1954 strat looks cheap also. I hope the scatter wounds sound a little mellower than the high gains.My 360/12 sounds a little brittle on the treble pick up. I do play through a 70 twin reverb with jensens though.

gregga41 · Post by **gregga41** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 10:47 pm

I'm with you on the vintage tail Eric!
Just fitted one to my 350/JG and luv it! My 360/FG has the R tail, so now my 2 ricks are totally individual in this house!
Steve, i never thought of drilling into the trapeze bracket, great idea, but as this is for keeps, i dont mind drilling into the guitar(VERY CAREFULLY!)
Special thanks to Chris Barry for our international tailpiece swap!

gregga41 · Post by **gregga41** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 10:49 pm

Post some pics of your new Ric when it arrives Eric! It's mandatory!
And welcome to the forum MATE!

shackleton · Post by **shackleton** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 10:03 am

I hope to get it Thursday or Friday next week. Ill try posting a pic of my 360/12 to see how that works . Although its a fireglo and not too extraordinary. It is a 1996 witch makes it ten this year.

shackleton · Post by **shackleton** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 10:22 am

I guess I am taking too high a resolution pics because I cant get them small enough.

brammy · Post by **brammy** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 9:03 am

do you have a photo editing program? Almost any one will do. If so, just load it and adjust the filesize and save.... do that until it gets below the magic 36KB level.