Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

I love that guitar. Looks like it's seen some miles, some honkytonks, some blues dives. These are invariably the ones that sound special. You could build a whole mythology around that guitar and no one would ever question it.

Nope just a bbbbaaaaaadddddd fire. The building manager saved the whole building by diving in and out of the room with fire extiguisher after fire extinguisher.

Make it 3 rics, just picked up a 91 330/12 fireglo, with only two small nicks on the lower front edge. It's beautiful!

Congrats!

These are the twins

The ""Fireglo" screams cool.

I'm thinking of making the 330 Jet Glo. How do I start, what do I use? Anyone got any tips? Thanks

"Making" it JG? Sounds more like a refinishing job...and to describe it in enough detail to do the process justice, would take, oh, 50 or 60 pages, single-spaced. Then there are two more issues: investment in tools and materials (prohibitive for one refinish job, to say the least), and the learning curve, which is kind of steep even if you've been using a spray gun for decades.

If you're not concerned about a finish of factory quality like the one I did on Dave Stewart's 360/12, I'd say, "ReRanch" nitrocellulose black in rattle-cans, careful application, and careful buffing. But it will not last like a RIC finish.

Thanks paul, that 360 looks great. I am not so concerned about doing it factory. I've done mostly all the work on both these guitars so I kinda wanna do it myself. the current maple finish is clearly not a pro job so I figure I can't do much worse.

Then get thee to ReRanch or Stew-Mac...pick up some rattle cans, but also pick up a video on refinishing and follow the instructions to a "T". Nitro is very forgiving to spary, but it has to go down onto a near-perfect surface.

Like I tell my students (and many of you have heard this said, too!): Paint does nothing to hide mistakes and bad preparation. But it does a lot to highlight and emphasize them!

Good luck, and post some pics when you're done with it.