What is the 325 in this photo?

octagon · Post by **octagon** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 3:50 pm

Is this Lennon's guitar,a twin of his guitar or a different guitar altogether(I can't see an F-hole:

http://www.rickenbacker.com/gallery_image.asp?archive_id=1541&gallery_year=1960

lennon211 · Post by **lennon211** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 4:56 pm

It's a different guitar. I'm pretty sure that in some of the other pics from that catalog session, there's an f-hole present.

35012 · Post by **35012** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 5:23 pm

You can see the f-hole if you look close enough. The lighting just isn't particularly good for showing that feature (unless it is some elaborate way of masking the f-hole so that Lennon fans would think they were buying an identical guitar to John's.)

tennis_nick · Post by **tennis_nick** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 1:51 am

what kind of tremolo does that 375 have?

rick_ovic · Post by **rick_ovic** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 2:20 am

Nick, it's an Ac'cent vibrato unit as far as I can tell.

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:23 am

Those pictures were taken long after Lennon's guitar was presented to him.

I believe these are from '68 or '69, judging by the color reproduction..they seem to be Ektachrome or Kodachrome slides...

leftybass · Post by **leftybass** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 7:22 am

Paul is correct....these pics are from the same series as what was used in the 1968 Catalog, and IIRC John Hall has said on one occassion that he was involved in these photo shoots, setting up the gear in some cases...

red_rob · Post by **red_rob** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 11:05 pm

Damn....full width inlays, 21 frets and toasters...

They just do it for me!

tennis_nick · Post by **tennis_nick** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:09 am

look closer at that 375's tailpiece... it looks like an accent, but hollowed out in the middle...

tennis_nick · Post by **tennis_nick** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:09 am

you know what? never mind, the reflection makes it look all funny, it is an ACcent...

johnhall · Post by **johnhall** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 4:46 am

Setting up the gear? Geez, I took all those photos without anyone to set up my gear for me! Just me and my trusty old Hasselblad 500C.

For those in Orange County, that shot happens to have been taken during the early days of Fashion Island, out in front of what is now Macys.