330/12 vintage guitar body advice

sashua · Post by **sashua** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 6:34 am

Take a look at this body with various associated parts that I just purchased. I need a little advice here.

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120141578987

The pickups - one looks o.k., the other has the poles sticking out separately and doesn't look original. Also, it says 345 in the cavity. Does that mean it would have been a 3 pickup model with a vibrato originally? It comes with an "R" tailpiece as you can see.
Any notes or advice here folks?

Thanks,
Russ

beatlefreak · Post by **beatlefreak** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 6:50 am

A single thread in one topic is all that's needed. These threads do get seen by most forumites.

dale_fortune · Post by **dale_fortune** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 8:19 am

No Russ..most all of them had a marker in the cavity that reads: 345 with a letter following it. I was wondering who was buying up all these things on Ebay. this was the way a 12 string was identified from a 6 string.

sashua · Post by **sashua** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 1:01 pm

It's been me all along Dale. I have purchased two 330/12's (one from '66 and one from '65) within the last 3 weeks. You and Paul will get calls on them but you both have plenty from me already so these will sit (along with 4-5 other Rickenbacker projects) until your respective backlogs loosen up a bit. Let me know if this philosophy is flawed and I should be getting in line. I just hate to have too many balls in the air at once. I begin to forget what is with who and when for how much. Getting old I guess

Hi Kris, I just wasn't sure which of the two topics fit this best so I put it in both. How have you been?

Russ