Solid body from semi-hollow

[scotty]

Scotty the Troublesome.

009 licensed to Kill and it it dont the fecking weight will

[jingle_jangle]

That reminds me: I have some furnace vents I need to remove and spray between them and the subflooring....

Scott--please keep us up-to-date on the "iiipopes furnace vent mod"!

[scotty]

Seemingly all you need is only one small squirt...........

Well thats how all the trouble starts

[Clint]

Well, if you're up for a little surgery, you could remove the back and fill it with pieces of balsa cut to fit. That's what Gibson did in the early '90s. Anybody remember the Les Paul Studio Lite? And if you really don't care about weight, use maple.

[Matt Clark]

I've never heard a reference to Style 009 or style 014

Isn't that weird!?! It's right their on the RIC page but no one seems to know! Or, at least, uses it.

My comment on foam was not to you, Matt, but to the RRFer who suggested it, one Scotty the Troublesome.

Sorry, just being clear...

Anybody who would build you a one-off ghost Rickenbacker for twice what a new one costs, is taking your hard-earned cash and you'd both be breaking the law besides your back.

The breaking the law bit is probably why. You'd have to grease some palms, if you know what I mean. As I'm sure you know, to get the features of a RIC, compared to other similar instruments, because of supply and demand, RICs are significantly overpriced, so you've got to love them in order to want them, whether it's looks, or sound, or quality that drives you. I've got four of them, so I have a bit of the bug myself!

[Matt Clark]

You mean, you have a Style 007, a style 008, a style 009, and a style 011, correct?

There you go!!!

[jingle_jangle]

Overpriced? There I'll take issue with you. I notice your "features" disclaimer, but bear in mind that RIC features and the combination are found in very few other instruments.

RICs are the best bargain around in a quality, low-production instrument. Remember that MSRP is not street price. Rick's street prices put them in league with Japanese-made Gretsches, and substantially below new Les Pauls of equal quality...Would you believe they've just re-released the Black Beauty Custom, at a MSRP of $7500.00??? That's 50% more than a Rick 381V69...

I'm not sure where "greasing palms" is going to help you in the case of commissioning a Rick counterfeit...

[cjj]

I think those "Style" number designations are taken from the RIC model identification page:
http://www.rickenbacker.com/identification.asp

When you click on the different body shapes, it puts a style number in. I'm not sure, but I think this is just an attribute of the web page as opposed to an official body style identification number.

'Course, I could be wrong...

[scotty]

CJ your a riot put yer specks on

[fireglo67]

If you contact one of the sellers here you can probably get any configuation of Rickenbacker guitar that you want, if that's your bag.
Just don't ask them for a Number 008 though, you might end up with fried rice.

http://www.dhgate.com/wholesale/rickenbacker.html

[scotty]

Just don't ask them for a Number 008 though, you might end up with fried rice.

and if you spend over a tenner you bl**dy better get prawn crackers

[fireglo67]

Just don't ask them for a Number 008 though, you might end up with fried rice.

and if you spend over a tenner you bl**dy better get prawn crackers

Prawn Crackers?
No problem.

http://www.dhgate.com/wholesale/prawn+crackers.html

[scotty]

Rob im worried your as warped as me...

[fireglo67]

Rob im worried your as warped as me...

I've just been to Scotland and I've not managed to shake it off yet.

[teb]

It's a totally off the wall idea that I would never even think of doing (unless it was somebody else's guitar and they were paying me - a lot) but it would be possible to do it. Anything you might put in there which is less dense than the maple (foam, balsa, etc.) would just deaden the sound and be non-productive. The stuff to use would be slow-cure 100% solids epoxy resin. It doesn't shrink or expand, and it doesn't generate massive amounts of heat as long as the pours are reasonably small and their thickness isn't too great. You could figure your volume and do a series of maybe 1/4" thick pours, one on top of another as soon as the previous one is stiff enough to support the new one without being disturbed. You're probably looking at adding a layer every six to eight hours, depending on the resin brand until the cavity is full, and you would need to have some sort of dam to prevent filling the entire control cavity area. There are a few fillers which could be mixed into the resin that might cut the weight a bit, but you have to be careful as some have insulating qualities that can create heat buildup. I'd be tempted to use graphite powder at maybe 20% of the volume. It's tough, doesn't retain heat and actually makes pretty nice looking stuff. Anybody who fishes has probably seen graphite fishing reels that have cast, grey/black plastic side plates and other parts. Those are polymer (resin) mixed with graphite powder. The angled base under the jibsheet winch (round silver drum) in this photo is a casting I made using epoxy/graphite in the bottom of a plastic yogurt container. As noted though, it would be an awfully heavy 330. Without figuring the volume, I suspect you might be adding maybe 8 lbs. to its weight. I have no clue how effective it would be in terms of sounding like whatever it is that you are after, but it could be done. Not good for resale value though, as noted.