Paul or anybody whos electric is this?

[DavidW]

I was just looking through some of the old topics here and I found a pic of this electric

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h146/ ... C00292.jpg

I'm assuming its a custom restoration by Paul, I think it could easily be one of the best Ricks I've ever seen. Are there any more pics and maybe a background story to go with it?

[sloop_john_b]

IIRC it's a '60 Capri, restored by Paul. Incredible guitar.

[jps]

Well, that is certainly Paul's table!

[doctorwho]

Well, that is certainly Paul's table!

Yes, it's unmistakably Paul's ... a normal table would just have plain binding!

[jps]

Well, that is certainly Paul's table!

Yes, it's unmistakably Paul's ... a normal table would just have plain binding!

Not only that, it would only have been Mapleglo.

[doctorwho]

[jingle_jangle]

Yeah, that's my '60 Capri, following a looong resto. Finished in August '06, just before the RIC 75 festivities.

Back story:

I was hankering after a Capri, and wrote Jwilli asking if he knew of any available. He, in fact, had a '60 365 in MG, which had suffered somewhat from an amateur resto and refinish many years before. It was, however, structurally sound and complete, with a perfect neck that I was later do discover, was the slimmest I'd ever played.

We made a deal (he is a super guy to deal with, as you all probably know!), and it arrived in the Fall of '05. I began immediately to tear it down, and it received a new back, binding, and I procured a set of butterbean tuners and a Kaufmann to replace the nicely-relicked Accent by Paul, which now resides on Alisha Tremaine's own Capri. The front and back were veneered with birdseye maple, and it got a new double-bind job in checkerboard and white genuine celuloid. The headstock is checkerboard-bound, the fretboard is bound in a white/black multiple stripe scheme, and the TRC is laser-engraved from the reverse side and painted in chrome lettering on a gold background.

The paint work is a five-color wine burst. The top guard is gold, the bottom tortoise shell. Wiring was redone and the original pickups are hot!

It's a joy, both to look at and to play.

Here are some good pics:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v693/ ... C05497.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v693/ ... C05500.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v693/ ... C05501.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v693/ ... C05495.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v693/ ... 0018sm.jpg

[kenposurf]

Paul..is that a similar finish to your "cowboy" acoustic?

[deaconblues]

Great choice to use the tortoise-gold PG, Paul...very vintage Ric.

I guess 1960 was the year for superthin necks.

Is the Kauffman handle the same in the first pic and the others you posted? Did you machine it yourself?

[jingle_jangle]

The "Cowboy" acoustic (now owned by a NYC enthusiast) was a whole different color and look, although the shot posed on Rickentable, was lit by a single incandescent which tends to pump up the reds and yellows, making the two look alike.

The "Cowboy" 700C was blood-red-orange, with chocolate brown shading--essentially a two-color burst. The 365 started with a pale red/lavender center, moved through FG to purple to chocolate brown (opaque) with a tiny bit of black right at the binding.

Both geetars have ambered binding.

The Kauffman handle is a stock one from a C58. It has been my intention to make a new, longer one, from polished stainless steel rod and bar stock, but no time yet.

[fireglo67]

Paul, looking at those 3 guitars, I think I love you and hate you in equal measures.

If I was a Ric colour, at the moment I would be green-with-envy-glo!

[kiramdear]

Wow, the acoustics are real swell, too Love the jumbo!

[admin]

You have to love that binding.

[paologregorio]

Yeah, that's my '60 Capri, following a looong resto. Finished in August '06, just before the RIC 75 festivities.

Back story:

I was hankering after a Capri, and wrote Jwilli asking if he knew of any available. He, in fact, had a '60 365 in MG, which had suffered somewhat from an amateur resto and refinish many years before. It was, however, structurally sound and complete, with a perfect neck that I was later do discover, was the slimmest I'd ever played.

We made a deal (he is a super guy to deal with, as you all probably know!), and it arrived in the Fall of '05. I began immediately to tear it down, and it received a new back, binding, and I procured a set of butterbean tuners and a Kaufmann to replace the nicely-relicked Accent by Paul, which now resides on Alisha Tremaine's own Capri. The front and back were veneered with birdseye maple, and it got a new double-bind job in checkerboard and white genuine celuloid. The headstock is checkerboard-bound, the fretboard is bound in a white/black multiple stripe scheme, and the TRC is laser-engraved from the reverse side and painted in chrome lettering on a gold background.

The paint work is a five-color wine burst. The top guard is gold, the bottom tortoise shell. Wiring was redone and the original pickups are hot!

It's a joy, both to look at and to play.

Here are some good pics:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v693/ ... C05497.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v693/ ... C05500.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v693/ ... C05501.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v693/ ... C05495.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v693/ ... 0018sm.jpg

Wow! I'd love one of those in Blue Boy!

[Darkhollow]

Haha, only Paul could have a FG CB table like that.