Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

I wonder what it weighed, tho, Rob?

well scholars maintain that it was the approximate weight of a sturdy holdall containing dane's glaucoma medicine requirement for a fortnight.

GO TO BED, ROB!!

Kinda reminds me of a Three Stoogie's episode.

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Scott, is she jetglo? Looks like it in the photo. Love black Ricks.

That heavy, Rob?

G'night.

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Let's go Leafs!

Steve I say we're talking aboot Canada.

Let's go Canada 4 - 0 over the Russian Junior team right now.

Couple more details: It's a 2004 330 JG -- virtually brand-new... the eBay seller runs a music store, so it might well have hung there this long. The OHSC has all the goodies, and the guitar smells new. No fretwear that I can see.

At $860, it was almost 3x what I paid for my last guitar. Sure enough, now I have GAS for a 360/12 AFG...

The photo is great. In fact, you may have invented a new color -- Flatglo!!! I really like it!

Congrats on your purchase! I just bought a 2005 Jetglo 330/6 shortly after Thanksgiving and I love it. It does a great job keeping my 1998 Fireglo 360/6 company. Trust me, you will find your other guitars spending more time in their cases as you get used to playing your Rick.

Scott, the reason I asked is that (going by the photo) I've never seen an unmodified Rickenbacker with such wide flat fret tops. The frets also seem to be very shallow--maybe .020", which would mean that they've been levelled quite radically, since the full-depth frets are around .045" in height.

The action seems a bit high, too, judging from the photo...

Discussing this with Aitch and Brian yesterday afternoon, we supposed that this guitar was used by a person who primarily played rhythm, and wanted the chords to fret especially easily. Brian's seen this sort of thing before, but then he was in "the biz" as a player for a long time.

This is not meant as critique; just the results of some observations and a bit of detective work...

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I used to have that keyboard it was awesome.Now I have a Microsoft wireless executive with mouse its awful and a hundred bucks more.

Paul, I measured .025"-.030" of usable fret height -- that's why it surprised me so much! (The action is 3/64" on the high E and 1/16" on the low E, fretted at the 1st fret and measured at the 13th. Neck relief is at .005". I think the photo angle and zoom give the impression of high action.)

I imagine this is what playing an early Les Paul Custom was like. I might be able to get used to it, but .030" is where I usually refret, y'know?

Scott,

My 71 Strat is like that. It was previously owned by a guitarist who had the frets filed down so he could play rhythm with really low action on the neck. It is a bit disconcerting when I play lead on that guitar.

Don't get me wrong I can still do fret board gymnastics, but it feels weird.