Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

Well, I see that one of our very own was the winner.

The lack of a certificate definitely affects the price. How much these days is hard to say. A very clean example with the WRONG certificate sold for $4800 recently. I was surprised to say the least. I am sure it would have been less without any cert at all, as weird as that sounds.

Anyway, it's just rare that I see one with no cert, and this one clearly had other issues so it's not easy to quantify the lack of cert as a factor in selling price.

As far as the non-compressor examples, I think rarity is trumped here by the fact that the single most significant feature of the 370/12RM, it's raison d'etre, if you will, is the circuit. If I'm buying, I'd take off 20-25% for no E1 circuit.

I am curious to see what will happen with the GC McGuinn....but it will probably just be trotted out there at $4495 forever, until some desperate soul pulls the trigger.

One of my buddies has # 6, No compressor in it.So what difference in price between compressor vs non?And, allowing for the fact that the "Janglebox" is now available, and by all reports, it smokes the built in comp. in the RMs...opinions?

Well I don't know, but the compressor unit itself went for $760 in this auction.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=41439&item=3772208714&rd=1

Ric12Dr wrote: "One of my buddies has # 6, No compressor in it.So what difference in price between compressor vs non?And, allowing for the fact that the "Janglebox" is now available, and by all reports, it smokes the built in comp. in the RMs...opinions?"

As best I can tell, we (JangleBox) have had no effect on the valuation of RMs in the least. Which is fine by me, as that was never our intention to begin with.

I love my RM (#736) -- it's beautiful, and the neck feels the best of all of my 5 Ric 12-strings. But, heretical as this may be, the pickups are really pretty muddy. I never noticed for the first 7 or 8 years I owned it, but once I had the pickups moded on another 370-12, the difference between it and my RM was dramatic.

The difference is even more pronounced with my 360-12CW. In all candor, the most clean, accurate, Byrdsy-sounding chime I get is with my 360-12CW played through a JangleBox.

I'd go along with that Steve! Still love that little box!

Steve;
I got to try out your Janglebox last nite when my buddy brought it over with # 6 for a jam. I ran my '67 370-12.Back when the RMs were still in production, I had the chance to try as many as 10 different compressor RMs; no 2 seemed quite the same, and to my memory on this, even the best of those 10 RMs didn't do the compression like the Janglebox does.We were sitting here last nite, both trying to decide what to do with the Boss CS3s we have.In my mind, those are now irrelevant....good job, Steve!!!

Thanks, Don. I shall not speak ill of any other compressor... lol! (Well, except maybe one). But I'm really glad you like JangleBox. Interestingly, I've heard from a couple of folks who've played different RMs, and they also said that the compression wasn't consistent between the different guitars. Battery wear, perhaps?

Graham: do you have an RM, and do you play it as much as your CW?

An advert this week in the Austin Chronicle............GUITAR Roger McGuin Rickenbacker #64 out of 1000, $5000 firm. 1960's Formula 602 24in cymbal mint $350.00 obo Louis 512-917-2644

So we know who's got number 64 now...........don't ask me how I find these???