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[ThreeThirty]

Hi, new to the forum here!

I got the Rick bug again recently and just took delivery of a fine 330 Jetglo!
I'm highly impressed by how this thing plays, the neck size and shape are perfect for me. Balance is wonderful.
What a cool guitar.

Here is a pic of the fretboard. Would you thing it's Rosewood?

I do have a few questions which I'll pull together and post but I wanted to introduce myself and join up with fellow Rickenbacker players.

This is my second Rick as I had a beautiful 330 12 string Fireglo but sadly it was stolen from me.

Glad to be here with a 330/6!

[fabandgear]

I had a friend whose Jetglo 350 Liverpool had a beautifully figured fingerboard like yours. What a piece of ART!

[Tommy]

What year is your Ric? I believe it was in 2013 that Rickenbacker switched over to Caribbean rosewood for their fretboards. That wood tends to have very distinctive wood figuring like your fretboard seems to have.

[ThreeThirty]

It was made 18th week of 2014.

I was toggling between getting a figured board vs a more traditional board and went with the figured.

I really like these strings. Are they Ric 10 - 46 or 10 - 42 round? I usually use Curt Mangan strings but these are nice.

[Tommy]

Rics used to be that odd gauge .42s on the low E. New Rics now come with .46s. Your 2014 would have the 10s - 42s.

My 2013 Ric with the Caribbean rosewood fretboard has a bit more wood figuring than my other Rics. It's a nice change.

[gibsonlp]

Welcome Mark!
Sorry to hear about your stolen Rick, if you still have the serial number - please add it to the register and mark it as "stolen". We have united quite a few stolen instruments with their lawful owners by catching the stolen instruments on eBay.

[cjj]

Welcome to the forum, Mark! Beautiful fretboard ya got there! Hows about a few pics of the rest of the guitar?

[ThreeThirty]

Thanks for the welcome!

Here she is. Easily the nicest playing guitar I have and within the top ten I've ever played in 40+ years.
Butter, butter, butter and a nice singing voice. Bloom galore. Double-stops are glorious. Very straight solid neck and refuses to go out of tune.

Bridge position great and bridge+neck great.
Neck alone is bassy dark and round - maybe bassier than I'd like. Is that normal?

Tommy - nice Midnight Blue - the fretboard looks great with that pick guard.

GibsonLP - great idea - thanks. I'll dig out the receipt and see if the serial number is on there.