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As a passionate owner of a 620, I read a lot about RIC guitars and inevitably came across the R tailpiece breakage issue.

It seems that it happens more to 12 string guitars, as a matter of fact I can’t remember having read about it happening to a 6 tailpiece. Maybe much less frequently.

Anyway I have also read that the company kinda fixed that by changing the tailpiece construction, but I’m not sure if it’s true.

got a source for that please ?

kt66 wrote:got a source for that please ?

I read people saying that in other forums. Like I said, I don’t know if it’s true. But search the web and you’ll likely find lots of 12 string tailpiece incidents and one or two with 6 string ones, if any. And not with newer guitars.

Sérgio wrote:

kt66 wrote:got a source for that please ?

I read people saying that in other forums. Like I said, I don’t know if it’s true. But search the web and you’ll likely find lots of 12 string tailpiece incidents and one or two with 6 string ones, if any. And not with newer guitars.

Well, newer guitars are, well, newer. If there is an R tailpiece incident, it is one that has had the stress of strings on them for a long time, as in, many years. Henceforth, newer guitars would not experience this happening to their tailpieces.

Still, it seems to be an issue that affects mostly 12 string ones, and as far as I've read, it isn’t common these days.

Yes, it is with 12 string guitars as they have much higher tension than their 6 string counterparts.

kt66 wrote:got a source for that please ?

So, reading about RICs this afternoon, I came across the info I had read.

It was Mr. John Hall himself that said it on the company forums.

http://www.rickenbacker.com/forum/viewt ... f=1&t=3691