Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

I just wanted to shout out that about a week ago I got my Carl Wilson LE 360 6-string from RicsRus in the UK. What a beaut ! Now I have a 360-6 MG with highgains, a 360-12 JG with toasters and this CW in FG. I shall be fun discovering the subtle differences between them.

Congrats, David! I have a 360/6 CW JG that I bought new from Mike Parks when they first came out, and I love it. My experience is that each guitar has its own unique 'voice' and no two are exactly alike.

David, congratulations on your new acquisition. I firmly believe that the CW's are probably the best Rics made.

I only wish that I would have bought a left-handed 360/6 CW when I had the chance. However, I came across it a couple of months after I bought my left-handed 360/12 CW and did not have any extra funds laying around.

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I'll have to take some pictures and post them of my "tricouleurs". I had traded a 660-6 FG with Chris at pick of the ricks early this year for my 360/12 JG because he felt it was one of the best necks he had seen for a 12. My 660 was a very beautiful piece built at the time of the CW (spring summer 2000). The flame and lutherie on the 360 CW is quite similar to the 660. I like a lot that I have a nice sampling of this 360 model. Also, by having the CW I don't have to modify the MG with toasters to keep the highgains. I am not necessarily one to believe that the toasters are "better" or the "real sound " of rics because, the higains have existed in production since 1970 and I don't think from a business perspective that Rickenbacker would have "killed the goose that layed the golden egg" if the change in the p/u was going to alter tremendously the sound, or take away its signature.

Outside my gretsch 6122, I have exclusively the 360s. The rics always seem more versatile than expected. My tweeking your amp, you can do a ton with it that goes beyond the sixties sound. Moreover, the fact that it is perceived to be almost a niche instrument, allows the ric enthousiast to develop an innovative sound in other genres : blues, rock, jazz, country, etc.

Put simply, I just love this product and cherish them. They make me happy everytime practically that I pick them up, even though I have come to the guitar later than most and have no pretentions of being any good at it.

I know that there will be another at some point. I share the hopes of others that there will be an azurglo 620 on the horizon. I prefer the thin neck and have no real beef with the higains, so I think that it would be a stock acquisition. Besides, the value of that guitar as a deluxe solidbody can not be underestimated.

best regards to you all.

PS : I've got tickets to see Brian Wilson in March at the Olympia in Paris.

I'll have to take some pictures and post them of my "tricouleurs". I had traded a 660-6 FG with Chris at pick of the ricks early this year for my 360/12 JG because he felt it was one of the best necks he had seen for a 12. My 660 was a very beautiful piece built at the time of the CW (spring summer 2000). The flame and lutherie on the 360 CW is quite similar to the 660. I like a lot that I have a nice sampling of this 360 model. Also, by having the CW I don't have to modify the MG with toasters to keep the highgains. I am not necessarily one to believe that the toasters are "better" or the "real sound " of rics because, the higains have existed in production since 1970 and I don't think from a business perspective that Rickenbacker would have "killed the goose that layed the golden egg" if the change in the p/u was going to alter tremendously the sound, or take away its signature.

Outside my gretsch 6122, I have exclusively the 360s. The rics always seem more versatile than expected. My tweeking your amp, you can do a ton with it that goes beyond the sixties sound. Moreover, the fact that it is perceived to be almost a niche instrument, allows the ric enthousiast to develop an innovative sound in other genres : blues, rock, jazz, country, etc.

Put simply, I just love this product and cherish them. They make me happy everytime practically that I pick them up, even though I have come to the guitar later than most and have no pretentions of being any good at it.

I know that there will be another at some point. I share the hopes of others that there will be an azurglo 620 on the horizon. I prefer the thin neck and have no real beef with the higains, so I think that it would be a stock acquisition. Besides, the value of that guitar as a deluxe solidbody can not be underestimated.

best regards to you all.

PS : I've got tickets to see Brian Wilson in March at the Olympia in Paris.

sorry for the double post !