Commemoration - Your Guitar's Manufacture Anniversary

[Lefty4001]

Sweet! I love those old Grover tuners. I don't care about what the (quote) EXPERTS (endquote) say about them.

I like the look of the closed back wavy grovers best out of all of the styles I've seen on RIC basses. This set was secured by Paul W using his drill/tap technique, so no concerns.

[walker]

If you ask Mark Armtwist about Grover tuners, he'll give you an anti-Grover tirade that would make you think a set of them killed his entire family.

[walker]

Holy Cow! (Can I say that here?) We missed the June & July birthdays! Feel free to post them if you've got them.

And you can color me meta, but now that we're in August, I just happened to have one August birthday in my flock.

My '64 RM 1999 is 49 this month:

[wim]

My 360V64 celebrates his 20th anniversary this month.

The reissues are becoming vintage instruments too

[walker]

The reissues are becoming vintage instruments too

HA! You're right!

Great looking guitar! Love that FIreglo.

[Ontario_RIC_fan]

My August jg 320 is 36 years old this month. QH 3474

Got it originally in 1985 - lost it in 1990 for 17 years and then recovered it about 5 years ago...

It survived a rather nasty fire while out of my possession. I have gotten it playable again at least.



Happy to have it again..

[wim]

That's a great story, Brian!
I had an 1980 320, sold it, I wish I didn't.
They're great little guitars. Real fun.

[walker]

Wow, Brian! What's the full 411 there? How did you lose it, and how did you get it back again?

[rickyfricky]

Thrice is Nice!!!

[Ontario_RIC_fan]

Wow, Brian! What's the full 411 there? How did you lose it, and how did you get it back again?

It is a cool story Mark! But rather then hijack this thread I will provide a link to the thread when I got it back.

Check it out here...

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=387368&p=519856&hil ... QH#p519856

[walker]

Cool, Brian. Thanks for the link. But this thread is all about the stories behind the gear, too.

[deaconblues]

Gorgeous 360, Wim!

[walker]

Wow... that really is an amazing story! I highly recommend it to everyone who hasn't read it already. I don't know if you ended up changing the nameplate for a lesser-cooked one, but I love the look of that burnt one. All that damage is some serious mojo - a guitar that endured a house fire and lived to tell about it! Those are scars to be proud of.

[rickyfricky]

What a GREAT story Brian!!

Congrats on the recovery of your Char Glo ...

[Ontario_RIC_fan]

Wow... that really is an amazing story! I highly recommend it to everyone who hasn't read it already. I don't know if you ended up changing the nameplate for a lesser-cooked one, but I love the look of that burnt one. All that damage is some serious mojo - a guitar that endured a house fire and lived to tell about it! Those are scars to be proud of.

Thanks for the kind word everyone... Yes I did replace all the white plastic - TRC and Pickguard - although I still have the originals in the case.

I also replaced the 4 control knobs - the only one still from the fire is the blend knob.