Saw a great Rickenbacker on Saturday

leftybass · Post by **leftybass** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 11:03 am

I was in the Cleveland area for a couple of days and dropped by the RRHOF to see the Tom Petty exhibit currently on display, which happens to have the 1963 625/12 Tom is holding on the 'Damn The Torpedoes' LP cover....one of my favorite Rickenbackers of all time and argueably a guitar that brought Rickenbacker instruments a new wave of promenance in the 80's. I got a REEEL good look at it.

The guitar is in decent shape overall, has a square-heeled neck, red marker-dots on the neck binding and seems to be unaltered from new other than a replaced nut. One thing that I thought was cool was that the neck pickup wiring was routed over the top of the body down into the control cavity which you can't see unless you look under the pickguard which is raised off the body by single grommets, ala late 50's Rickenbackers. The pickups were two long-pole toasters. This guitar is the next in-line from George Harrison's 1963 360/12 O.S., one number away.

Now if I can just talk Mike Campbell out of it, LOL...

jps · Post by **jps** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 11:33 am

You should have contacted me as I am in Cleveland.

leftybass · Post by **leftybass** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 12:43 pm

Jeff: If I had known that I was gonna be there(RRHOF) for sure, I would have made arrangements to hook up with you---I had actually thought about it before we left...I was at the mercy of Kathy's schedule (school reunion) and we didn't know we'd have the time until Saturday morning. No worries, I'll be back--we make trips up to the area all the time. I'll let you know ahead of time.

jps · Post by **jps** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 1:25 pm

That would be great!