Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

So, and this is the "body" of my early 1967 360 (GB###) in fireglo with "f" hole...I think it's pretty unusual a 360 having both F hole and deluxe features..it's not a Rose Morris model but not "completely american looking" either
nice, isn't it?
oh... maybe i should have posted this picture in the Guitar Directory

well..looks like a model 365 since the instrument has the accent vibrato... i said 360 just because this is what you can read on the body if you remove the pickguard

Last saturday before the show

....and yesterday evening in studio playing Paul's bass

Francesco, I love that 365S(I'd call it). The Smith book says something about a batch of 25 guitars going to an Italian dealer about then, I wonder if it is one of these.

yes I have read smith's book... there's something written on the wood under the pickguard..
360exp..i guess it means that export models used to have f sound hole
anyway it's amazing how smooth is the action and has the thinnest neck i've ever played (same neck width as the 4005 in the other picture i have posted)
i see that in your profile you owe a couple of 60s export models...smith said lot of them went to australia

I have a '65 1997 and now two '64 1999's. I picked the second one up this week after owning the other for 20 years. None like yours. There were export 4005's with f hole also.

4005s are so rare to find outside USA and expecially in countries like italy. I purchased mine in Los Angeles in 1992 during a holiday spent in the usa, after a research lasted almost one year involving several retailers in Italy and USA... Maybe it'd be easier now, searching through internet since most of the shops have a website... I am sure there are few 4005s with f sound hole but I think looks better with slash one since the body is wider than a guitar