jingle_jangle wrote: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...
I completely agree with Paul here, its breaking the law, and please don't bad mouth RIC
I just had a third RIC high gain pickup added to my 620 and had it rewired. It has now become the most versatile guitar I've ever heard--period. I can get everything from a deep Les Paul tone to a tele/strtat and she still sounds like a RIC too. And, he used all of the same pots and toggle so it still look like it should (with the extra pickup of course). Simply outstanding!
How did you wire in the middle p/u on your 620-- did you tie it in parallel to the neck p/u as is done on a 370, or did you do something different? I've always been curious about what a 3-p/u RIck would sound like with a Strat-like 5-position switch, although it might be tricky to integrate that with the Rick-o-Sound wiring (I haven't given this any real thought).
I just had a third RIC high gain pickup added to my 620 and had it rewired. It has now become the most versatile guitar I've ever heard--period. I can get everything from a deep Les Paul tone to a tele/strtat and she still sounds like a RIC too. And, he used all of the same pots and toggle so it still look like it should (with the extra pickup of course). Simply outstanding!
How did you wire in the middle p/u on your 620-- did you tie it in parallel to the neck p/u as is done on a 370, or did you do something different? I've always been curious about what a 3-p/u RIck would sound like with a Strat-like 5-position switch, although it might be tricky to integrate that with the Rick-o-Sound wiring (I haven't given this any real thought).
OK, now I'm thinking I might want to cut the catseye sound hole through the body and bind it with black binding. Just a thought! I'd be getting really close to my dream guitar then!
Personally, I'd leave it as it is - it looks great now, and I think a non-functional fake "soundhole" would look strange on a solidbody, particularly given the the small size of the 620. In my view the 620 is a classic design in its own right and doesn't need a post-modern reference to it's more famous semi-hollow siblings. Just my opinion, of course.
I'm sitting on the outside of this, but I have to wonder about the feedback issue... I used to play surf music (Dick Dale, the Ventures, etc) instrumentals on a Gibby 335 and later with my Gretsch Country Gent through a big ole Peavey Musician III at about 11.5 on the 0-10 scale. Both axes were big hollowbods, and we even routed the instrument feeds through the front-of-stage monitors. Never, ever had a feedback issue with the guitars at full wail, even when we went to the Stevie Ray Vaughn version of Pipeline... Now the Gent has the phoney F-holes, but it's still basically hollow, like the 335.
Haven't yet had my Ric up to those levels (I'm 20-odd years older and maybe a little wiser, I hope), but still there hasn't been a trace of feedback yet.
Digging up an old thread.... I did it... or I should say, had it done. Thanks Larry Davis! Solid body 370WB BH BT whcih started life as a plain ol' 330 fireglo
