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RicukStu wrote:

k43rover wrote:Couple of points here Jason. First, Tim at Sound Affects (who BTW has been an absolute gentleman to deal with) made it clear to me this week that if there was anything about the final spec of the guitar that I was unhappy with, then I did not have to go ahead with the purchase. As you can see from my pictures and comments I was more than pleased to give this guitar a home exactly the way it is......

So that's why you changed to pick guard and control knobs as soon as you got it?
Sorry mate but the white pick guard looks terrible. You have a beautiful, rare as hen's teeth guitar on your hands, LEAVE IT ALONE AND JUST PLAY IT!!!!

Well thanks so much for that insightful post Stuart, but as it's my guitar which I paid my own hard earned for, I'll be doing just exactly what I like with it. If you don't care for the guard changes I am experimenting with I suggest you don't bother reviewing my future posts on this thread as it will most likely be too upsetting for you to cope with

k43rover wrote:...If you don't care for the guard changes I am experimenting with I suggest you don't bother reviewing my future posts on this thread as it will most likely be too upsetting for you to cope with

Ooh, a Strat pickguard!

RicukStu wrote:

k43rover wrote:

jdogric12 wrote:Couple of points here Jason. First, Tim at Sound Affects (who BTW has been an absolute gentleman to deal with) made it clear to me this week that if there was anything about the final spec of the guitar that I was unhappy with, then I did not have to go ahead with the purchase. As you can see from my pictures and comments I was more than pleased to give this guitar a home exactly the way it is......

So that's why you changed to pick guard and control knobs as soon as you got it?
Sorry mate but the white pick guard looks terrible. You have a beautiful, rare as hen's teeth guitar on your hands, LEAVE IT ALONE AND JUST PLAY IT!!!!

Hey watch your quotes... I didn't say that!

jdogric12 wrote: Hey watch your quotes... I didn't say that!

I didn't notice that...I used the standard auto-reply feature so that's really wierd that it picked up your user name from somewhere!! ...I''ll go back and manually edit the post to protect the innocent

jps wrote:

k43rover wrote:...If you don't care for the guard changes I am experimenting with I suggest you don't bother reviewing my future posts on this thread as it will most likely be too upsetting for you to cope with

Ooh, a Strat pickguard!

I'm getting overloaded with requests here!

jdogric12 wrote: Hey watch your quotes... I didn't say that!

I just realised, the post from RicukStu which I replied to was the problem as it incorrectly attributed a quote to you...

One is already available on ebay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rickenbacker-Pe ... 564a17f007

shameful profiteering

8mileshigh wrote:shameful profiteering

k43rover wrote:. . . the incorrectly shaped factory fitted guards were a much bigger "insult" to a guitar of this quality . . .

Might well have been stated as an opinion so as not to be insulting to those that think otherwise, so as not to discourage future offering of this type.

Fortunately, our distributors are asking for more of these in EXACTLY the same configuration which suggests something was done correctly in someone else's opinion.

John:

well said!

I thought 25 was the minimum order for this kind of thing anyway - clearly Rosetti think so too!

What I find interesting is that in all this discussion of what these special guitars "look like" - my question was the only one that addresses how they play and sound...

And the only answer to date has been that they sound wonderful... Which is the purpose of a musical instrument I would argue...

Brian: I think the White Specials are brilliant. I am looking foward to seeing one with black guards and truss rod cover. A reverse Jetglo.

johnhall wrote:

k43rover wrote:. . . the incorrectly shaped factory fitted guards were a much bigger "insult" to a guitar of this quality . . .

Might well have been stated as an opinion so as not to be insulting to those that think otherwise, so as not to discourage future offering of this type.

Fortunately, our distributors are asking for more of these in EXACTLY the same configuration which suggests something was done correctly in someone else's opinion.

Many thanks for taking the time to comment on this John.

I obviously cannot speak for the UK distributor, or UK dealers for that matter, but I will speak for myself as a paying customer for one of these guitars.

As I've stated clearly in various prior posts about this guitar I am overall not just happy with it, but rather delighted with it. That is in no small part because I am a particular fan of the original 1960's Rose Morris guitars, so any guitar which comes as close as this one does to the overall specification of those guitars is just perfect with me. The icing on the cake is that it is a UK market Limited Edition.

That does not however mean that I don't have an opinion about aspects of the guitar that I personally find questionable. The only one of those of any consequence to me is the shape/size of the pickguards (not the colour) which were used on the guitar. As soon as I saw the picture Ben posted of the guitar in this specification (i.e. a week or so before they were shipped) I questioned openly on this forum whether the final guitars would actually leave the factory with pickguards that size/shape as they looked clearly incorrect to me for a full sized 21 fret guitar (i.e. incorrect based on the normal "lip" position on a 330/360 upper guard between the 2 pick-ups and also overall smaller than the guards I have seen). They still look wrong to me and I am doing something about it now I have the guitar. This is no way affects my overall appreciation of the guitar which remains exceedingly high. At the end of the day, its obviously down to you and Ben to decide when you are happy with the final specification of a guitar before it leaves the factory, but I do seem to recall in one of Ben's responses on the pickguards that he made some sort of comment to the effect that these guards were the only ones readily available to hand in the factory that would fit at all (the inference being that there would have been a delay in shipment to order up bespoke gold guards to fit this 21 fret guitar)...maybe I'm reading too much into his comment, but his observation at the time surprised me.

As to the use of the word insult, you may have noted that I used that word only in quotation marks and completely in the context of my response to a forum member who somehow implied that I had "insulted" my guitar by changing pickguards on it. As I pointed out to him, I don't see how a guitar as an inanimate object can feel insulted about anything. I suspect what he really meant was that I had somehow insulted his sensibilities (I'll forgive him on the sematics of the English language as I think he is Dutch... ). Certainly as the owner of the guitar concerned, I can confirm I have not insulted myself at all by changing the pickguards...in fact I feel much better for it. I will let other independent minded souls here on the forum make up their own minds about how insulted they are....

libratune wrote:One is already available on ebay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rickenbacker-Pe ... 564a17f007

...I predicted Graham could help you out Ron...at a price, of course

8mileshigh wrote:shameful profiteering

..well shame on you Graham (but from a completely different perspective)....I really thought you were going to get your router to work on the headstock and present us with the world's first Pearl White 1993 SPC!!!