You and your Ric

[sowhat]

Just to be different, a really stupid face.

[red_rob]

Sheena growing her hair! you robo-babe you!!

[melibreits]

Great to see this thread revived, so I'll revive one of my favorites, too....

This is me playing my 481 at the Grand Marais Fisherman's Picnic festival in August 2006.

[shamustwin]

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It's me but it ain't mine! Paul W's handy work.

w/1997

[scotty]

Me today after work.

[jingle_jangle]

Taking the long view as usual, Scottie...

[scotty]

Oh yeah Paul,Looking both ways for the full spectrum

[sloop_john_b]

Hopefully we'll get to see you with the Weller guitar soon, Scotty!

[wmthor]

[placebo62]

Hey, get that camera out of my face - big hands on skinny necks are serious business!

say, what model is that? a 360 WB?

[teb]

It's a '91 360/12WB that I added a middle pickup to. It's stereo-wired so that the bridge (converted high-gain) and neck (toaster) pickups are on a standard five-knob Rickenbacker circuit and the middle toaster pickup has it's own circuit, played with a Y-cord into two channels or two amps. The sixth knob is the volume control for the middle pickup. Then I had Mark Arnquist add the twelve-saddle bridge, new frets that go all the way out to the outer edges of the neck binding for maximum finger room and a new nut with the widest string spacing that was possible with tightly-spaced pairs. It had a plexi TRC when I got, so I built new back-painted pick guards to match. It's certainly not a guitar for a purist, but add a set of TI jazz flats and a Janglebox on one circuit and you have a hell of a nice guitar that plays great and sounds awesome.
Sound sample: http://webpages.charter.net/tbradshaw/M ... f/saw3.mp3

[ricardo_vicente]

Cracking tune, Todd. Really nice. You've captured the Rick really well too of course.

[placebo62]

It's a '91 360/12WB that I added a middle pickup to. It's stereo-wired so that the bridge (converted high-gain) and neck (toaster) pickups are on a standard five-knob Rickenbacker circuit and the middle toaster pickup has it's own circuit, played with a Y-cord into two channels or two amps. The sixth knob is the volume control for the middle pickup. Then I had Mark Arnquist add the twelve-saddle bridge, new frets that go all the way out to the outer edges of the neck binding for maximum finger room and a new nut with the widest string spacing that was possible with tightly-spaced pairs. It had a plexi TRC when I got, so I built new back-painted pick guards to match. It's certainly not a guitar for a purist, but add a set of TI jazz flats and a Janglebox on one circuit and you have a hell of a nice guitar that plays great and sounds awesome.
Sound sample: http://webpages.charter.net/tbradshaw/M ... f/saw3.mp3

awesome! thanks for explaing it all, the extra know had me confused.

do you want to sell it?

[teb]

I'm planning on being buried with it (you never know, you might wake up in there and have some new tune in your head that you want to work out - plus, you're probably not going anywhere). I play it so much that I bought a 330/12 as a spare so that I wouldn't wear it out. I rigged the 330 pretty much the same way. It has spectacular figure in the wood and it sounds even better than the 360/12. I've had four Rickenbacker twelves (360/12, 660/12, 360/12WB and the 330/12) and also a 360/6 and the 330/12 has the most resonant body of any of them. I still need to get it set up for my fat fingertips, but it's going to be really good when it's done. I'm thinking about having it double-bound and fingerboard inlays installed, but I'm almost afraid to mess with it, other than to just get it playable, for fear of diminishing it's sound.

[jimk]

Wow! What a gorgeous guitar.

JimK