What Rick model is this?

[Johnny_Voodoo]

Does anyone know the model Pete Townshend is playing in these photos? It looks kind of cool.

[sloop_john_b]

It is not a Rick at all - it's a Grimshaw.

[Johnny_Voodoo]

I thought something was screwy. I guess I got fooled by the faux toasters & what looks like a Rick TRC although I couldn't make out the name clearly. Thanks for the info!

[collin]

I thought something was screwy. I guess I got fooled by the faux toasters & what looks like a Rick TRC although I couldn't make out the name clearly. Thanks for the info!

No, your eyes are fine!

Pete installed a set of pickups and TRC from one of his smashed RM1998's, I presume.

Why, you ask?

According to Pete:

“I bought the guitar at Ivor Maraints, I’d always wanted one (was it because Joe Brown played one?). At the time I was used to Rick pickups so when I ran out of Rickenbackers one day I rigged the Grimshaw with the pickups and added the headstock blazer as deception. However, when people asked me what model of Rick it was, I told them it was a Grimshaw. It played beautifully.”

Pretty cool!






Apparently, these guitars are pretty rare, though I remember Kenny Howes saying he played one in London awhile back.

[jps]

I think the Rick TRC works well, aesthetically, with the Grimshaw headstock shape, but then, I seem to be the only one here who actually likes the headstock shape of the El Toro, too!

[collin]

I agree Jeffrey.

The Grimshaw is a pretty strange looking guitar, but it's kind of Rickenbackish, in a bizzaro-world sorta way (like the reverse slash soundhole). It seems pretty Rossmeisl-esque.

[kennyhowes]

Apparently, these guitars are pretty rare, though I remember Kenny Howes saying he played one in London awhile back.

I just ran across a photo I took of said guitar in '08; it was a different model than the Townshend guitar, more like a Super 400. Still cool, and a decent price, if I remember right.

[robbo63]

According to Pete:

“I bought the guitar at Ivor Maraints, I’d always wanted one (was it because Joe Brown played one?). At the time I was used to Rick pickups so when I ran out of Rickenbackers one day I rigged the Grimshaw with the pickups and added the headstock blazer as deception. However, when people asked me what model of Rick it was, I told them it was a Grimshaw. It played beautifully.”

Pete makes it sound like running out of clean clothes. Oh no, I just ran out of Rickenbackers.