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Restrung my pride and joy earlier this evening. Had to wait until Mike & Molly was over, but here we go. These pictures show the fireglo pattern is closer to Mark's '86, which is from the same batch as mine and Tom Petty's.

Your thoughts, Eddie?

Here's a shot of the bridge...the action is like butter. Since it left Ron, I've never had the neck adjusted, and Steve says it's as straight as an arrow and doesn't need an adjustment.

Eddie, I believe that a small number of early '64 Rose Morris instruments had the square heels. I do think the bound f-hole is factory.

k43rover wrote:

jwilli wrote:

k43rover wrote: This is really special...an antecedent of the New Style f-holes they shipped in small volumes to Italy at the end of the '60's.

Yes but the body shape is quite bit different from what would be known as the New Style. Square neck heel, more of a hand shaped body style, solid white binding on the back.

That's a very interesting spec for '64. I believe all the '64 Rose Morris exports, even the first shipment, had the rounded heel so this square heel must be rare (unique?) on any '64 f-hole guitar. In the picture it looks like the f-hole is bound as well...do you think that's factory original?

sloop_john_b wrote:

Clifton wrote: Yes, don't forget the basses! (BTW--wasn't the 4005 exported? But I can't recall the RM number for it.)

3261

That looks fantastic with the f-hole.

What happened to the you tube videos?

Great stuff there, Jake. Love the color on that one. It's robust without being clownish, with just the right amount of amber.

JakeK wrote:Restrung my pride and joy earlier this evening. Had to wait until Mike & Molly was over, but here we go. These pictures show the fireglo pattern is closer to Mark's '86, which is from the same batch as mine and Tom Petty's.

Your thoughts, Eddie?

Looks excellent Jake. It's good that you've got one with a straight and true neck too!

Now you've gotta cross your fingers that the factory does a C series anniversary reissue of this model 1997 next year. Once you sample a brand spanking new reissue with the X-braced body and the same beautiful cosmetics as your existing guitar I think you'll find it very difficult to to resist the upgrade (start saving now!) It'll be interesting to see whether they go with the true-to-the-original-but-somewhat-unloved Accents on a reissue, or play safe with a trapeze/R...either way, I think they'll be queuing round the block for 'em!

jwilli wrote:Eddie, I believe that a small number of early '64 Rose Morris instruments had the square heels. I do think the bound f-hole is factory.

That's interesting - I don't recall seeing any pics of full bodied export models (1997, 1998, 1993) with a square heel but I do recall reading that they used NOS older bodies (with square heels?) for some early shipments of the model 1996. I think the bound f-hole looks good...I wonder why the factory decided to ditch that feature on the standard series production deluxe/bound body guitars. I recall Collin's old modded 1993 also had the f-hole bound when he first got it from Canada and I thought that looked great too..

Clifton wrote:

k43rover wrote:

JakeK wrote:Some more from this Petty fellow...

...and yet more...this Petty fellow has spectacularly good taste!

It's easy to have good taste when Rickenbacker builds you custom guitars, like his recent 1993/12 and his double-bound 1998!

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That's right! Here's another pic of the same two beauties

Great pictures everyone, some fantastic examples on display. Lovin it.

JakeK wrote: I believe our admin Peter has a special 12-string in Rose Morris specs that was custom made for him in 2003. Whether he wants to contribute, tell us the story and share some pics or not is up to him.

He's already done that Jake...and on this very website! That one is indeed a rare beauty.

Full story/pics here:

http://www.rickresource.com/rrp/1993SPC.html

k43rover wrote:That's right! Here's another pic of the same two beauties

Are the selector switch tips so long and narrow, or is it just the picture?

That 2 PU is almost perfect - adding a 660 wide 24 fret neck and bound slash hole would do

Electrostring wrote: adding a 660 wide 24 fret neck and bound slash hole would do

Would be good if the factory offered the bound sound hole as an ex-works cost option. I'm sure a lot of people would go for it (either on the f or slash!) and it could be priced at a level which would make it a nice little earner even taking account of the small degree of added production complexity.

Electrostring wrote: Are the selector switch tips so long and narrow, or is it just the picture?

mmmm...they do look a little longer than usual...could just be camera angle or maybe Tom is getting yet more special order features from the factory...

Special feature mini-joystick selector switch tips

A friends '67 1998.