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Prowling around GBase, I found this:

http://www.gbase.com/gearlist/guitar_picture.asp?guitar=408557

Apart from the fact that it's gorgeous, can anyone shed any light on it? If it's a 650C, it should be jetglo, shouldn't it - is this a new model I've missed somewhere along the way?

Cheers,
David

The 650C is apparently now available in all the standard finishes. I know that Mike Parks (The Rickenbacker Page) recently got a new one in Burgundy, it sold quickly. Still shown on his New Ricks page, here's the enlarged photo: http://www.the-music-connection.com/pics/r397.jpg

Burgundy or Mapleglo - what a choice. They both look delicious!

Amazing!

If I wasn't such a mark for the 300 series, I'd seriously consider a 650C in Mapleglo.

I agree, these are great looking. Not too shabby in Jetglo either.

I have one of these left handed.

A 650 is what you hand some moron when they say that RICs are rhythm guitars............

"...who could ask for anything more?"

WOW! The Best of all Worlds! Humbuckers and wide neck like a Gibson, Maple neck and playability like a Fender Strat and the KILLER looks of the finest guitar made...RICKENBACKER! Mr. John Hall: this is a very hard act to follow! AL A.

I have yet to get my hands on a 6xx Ric.

Can anyone give me a feature by feature comparison with say a 330 or 360?

John

Those mapleglo 650s are divine!
My 650A is a great guitar. I still prefer my 300 series Rics... I've never been into solid-bodies.
As everyone is keen to point out, the 600 series Rics can indeed jangle and sparkle. But the volume and tone controls seem to have a massive sweep. They are your best friend on a 650.
You can make it sustain endlessly. It sings better than any Gibson. Mine has the VB option vibrato bridge. Since I'm a Ric vib/Bigsby vib devotee, it took me some time to get used to the modern vibrato. Yes, you can dive-bomb with it if you fancy that.
So my overall feeling is that -for my tastes and my playing- the 300 series Rics are supreme. The 600s may well be your cup of tea. You might find a soulmate. Either instrument could be your one-and-only guitar.
I find myriad uses for my 650 in recording situations. Its tone let's it fit with any song style. Still, whether you're playing distorted, clean, or with heaps of effects, it still has a Ric vibe.
I may love my 650 even more if I had a coil tap installed...
John, to answer your question, the 650s have humbuckers (unless you special order single coils), 3-way switch, 2 vol, 2 tone pots, no blend knob, modern bridge with roller saddles, neck-through-body construction, and a chunky neck. I'm less knowledgable about the 610s (though they are probably the sound between a 650 and a 330).
The 330/360 have a set-in neck, single coil pickups (HiGains or Toasters though Humbuckers are available as an option), 2 vol, 2 tone, and a blend knob, a trapeze (or R) tailpiece, 3-way switching, and more mojo.
Cheers, Noel

I have traded in my 330 for a 650 and I can tell you right now that I will not go back. Not that I didn't like the 330, I tought it was the greatest guitar for me compare to my old Strat and my Epiphone Les Paul. BUT... I found that it was too noisy and it bugged me a lot. Now it's another ball game...the 650 is so great to play with and the sound is so bluesy, so warm that I just fell in love again! If you have a chance, you should try one! Dan

I would like to second what John Williams mentioned in a previous post. When my youngest brother, who once played in a hard rock band and used a Washburn and a Charvel through a Randall halfstack, got his hands on my new 650D, he wasn't making any jingle jangle rhythm sounds with it. He went straight into Joe Satriani and Eddie Van Halen covers, and had my Marshall amp turned up to about an 8 or 9 on the gain and master volume controls. He thinks the 650D is a really nice hard rocking lead guitar. The humbuckers are very quiet, and that is really important is high gain music styles. The 650C should give you an almost identical sound for $300 more at retail. The only reason I ordered one is that I also wanted a Rick with vintage toasters, and the availability of optional finishes allowed me to order it in midnight blue, so that it would look different than my natural 650D and Jetglo 4004L.