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Plodd, let's see your Ricks. Photos, please!

jingle_jangle wrote:Plodd, let's see your Ricks. Photos, please!

Certainly...1964 Rickenbacker 800001C-FG.

Is that a double or single truss rod model?

Sorry to say the the 800001C-FG is indeed a Fackenbocker(Aitch thats for you that one ).You can tell by positioning of the TRC its a good inch from where it normally should be.Furthermore its got a touch of the crownglo that in all probability indicates a refin?
Paul did you do work on this?

scotty wrote:Sorry to say the the 800001C-FG is indeed a Fackenbocker(Aitch thats for you that one ).You can tell by positioning of the TRC its a good inch from where it normally should be.Furthermore its got a touch of the crownglo that in all probability indicates a refin?
Paul did you do work on this?

It's authentic... I had it mod'd.

kiramdear wrote:In Germany the "bocker" pronunciation is correct.

Not quite; in fact not at all. Bocker would be bocker in German... I should know, I got a Master in the language... lol... as a linguist there's nothing worse than those tourist pronunciation guides one can get in travel shops...
German "backer" would be closer to english pronunciation of bucker, except with Umlaut (the dots) as it'd be the same as english backer, then. Anyone still following? :p

Now I want to play my Ric... *goes off in search of plectrum*



Cheers,

Werner

Wildberry wrote:

kiramdear wrote:In Germany the "bocker" pronunciation is correct.

Not quite; in fact not at all. Bocker would be bocker in German... I should know, I got a Master in the language... lol... as a linguist there's nothing worse than those tourist pronunciation guides one can get in travel shops...
German "backer" would be closer to english pronunciation of bucker, except with Umlaut (the dots) as it'd be the same as english backer, then. Anyone still following? :p

Now I want to play my Ric... *goes off in search of plectrum*



Cheers,

Werner

Yeah, I followed that, as I'm sure our German members did. But, Adolph Rickenbacker was Swiss, not German and originally spelled it "Rickenbacher". I'm not sure what part of Switzerland he was from though. I assume the German speaking part of Switzerland generally follows the same pronunciation as Germany (I seem to remember that being the case when I was there 20 some years ago, or at least I could understand them)...

jingle_jangle wrote:Plodd, let's see your Ricks. Photos, please!

I also managed to snag this historic piccolo bass up at Sotheby's.

Hey Warren, exactly where do you hide those rabbits?

I'm lovin' this thread, knowing the perp.

Very creative.

My most recent acquisition was a joint effort between Rickenbacker and Moog, a synth bass rarely seen in public, this one's a fretless model.

1982 Rickenbooger 4003FL

johnallg wrote:I'm lovin' this thread, knowing the perp.

Very creative.

Thought I smelled something going on here. Couldn't stop giggling.
JimK