Re: Rickenbacker.com has been offline recently
Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2024 11:55 pm
I'm glad the site is up again, and I'd guess it's still under development.
Rickenbacker Forum, Amplifier, Bass and Guitar Register
https://www.rickresource.com/forum/
I wouldn't take solely its exclusion from the menu as an indication of that. I found the page: https://www.rickenbacker.com/guitars/model-620-12/Ratwax wrote: ↑Thu Mar 07, 2024 6:44 am It is good to see the site back, and looking good. However, I was surprised that the 620/12 has been dropped from production. Had that happened earlier, and I'd just missed the memo?
On a positive note, the pics on the site for the 4005V show they're using the checkerboard binding on the back. Yummo!
Cheers,
It never was very active, so no surprises there.Bitterend17 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2024 6:22 pm Yeah, it looks like the company forum has been discontinued on the new website.
I think it was pretty active, up until John Hall departed. I really looked forward to visiting that forum daily. I learned a lot there. So, I'm hoping that the forum will reappear there, at least for archival access -- man, there is a lot (a lot!) of good information buried in there. One of the best things I learned was the differences between the two types of Sorkin Bowtie bridges -- I can still recall iiipope's explanation and his typographical depiction of the two different bridges. And there was a lot of discussion about disconnecting the middle pickup on 325 models. There was a guy there who (finally?) disconnected the middle pickup on his 325v59, liked the sound, and demonstrated the "new" sound by providing a link to his rendition to the song, "Smokestack Lightening,' singing and fingerpicking; I'm still blown away.jps wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2024 2:49 amIt never was very active, so no surprises there.Bitterend17 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2024 6:22 pm Yeah, it looks like the company forum has been discontinued on the new website.