Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

Nice pics, Jake!

k43rover wrote:

JakeK wrote:Collin is guarding this one with his life! He told me!

...looks that way, but those V12's are awful juicy The darker FG on that 1993 is just boooootiful

Thanks, gents.

Yeah, not for sale....V12 or not!

JakeK wrote: He handed me the 1998, (which was relic'd (eat that Paul W! )

Actually, not relicked.....it's just plain old "beat up"

k43rover wrote: Either way this early pattern short TRC is obviously very rare...

Yes, in fact, they could be considered "one-offs", as the hand shaping often required shortening as well as narrowing, scooping, and all sorts of shenanigans so that the TRC would fit between the slots on the headstock and still display the Rickenbacker script in its entirety.

These days, the headstock shapes are consistent, and although the TRCs are still modded 6 string ones, they're not nearly as extreme.

collin wrote:

JakeK wrote:
Collin, your own 1993/12 has a TRC very similar to Lennon's, if I remember right? .

Yep.





Mine is October, 1964---I think by the November batch, they had the pointy TRCs, so mine would have been among the last to get the "stubby" TRC (mine also had a trapeze tailpiece, originally, and R-tailpieces showed up near November '64 as well.) I dig the short TRCs-- kinda cool and different.

Lovin the bound sound hole there.

IvanMunoz wrote: Lovin the bound sound hole there.

Yeah? It's gone now.

It wasn't original, and was lightly fixed to the edges.....I took it off right after getting the guitar (shortly after these pics were taken).

collin wrote:

IvanMunoz wrote: Lovin the bound sound hole there.

Yeah? It's gone now.

It wasn't original, and was lightly fixed to the edges.....I took it off right after getting the guitar (shortly after these pics were taken).

Sounds like the right call to me Collin...do you have some nice before and after pics for us to drool over?