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Never heard of a 225 before....looks like a dakota mixed with a lennon guitar....

Looks like a modifed 230 Hamburg...with a Glenn Fry style pickguard added and a third PUP. 235?

That is an odd one. The pickups have been changed from HB2s to hi-gains. The pickguard has been added. I wouldn't call it a 235, though - no vibrato. Maybe a 240?

Could have been a 250 El Dorado, in its former life, since the hardware has been changed (and most everything else). It appears to me that the control knobs on the one for sale are on a diagonal line to each other, like a 250. The control knobs on a Hamburg 230 line up more perpendicular to each other.

But if it left the factory as a 250... what about the binding on the guitar's body?

Moreover, the position of the control knobs would be a function of the aftermarket pickguard, no? I'll take that one back.

But the control patterns on the 230 and 250 look the same here:

http://www.rickenbacker.com/gallery.asp ... 980&Page=2

The photo I was looking at was from the Bacon book. It has a 250 and 230 next to each other. The 230 in his book is quite different with the knob placements than many others I've seen. As far as the body, that's even harder to tell, since it is a refin. Whatever it was (is), it's not completely its former self

buzfluhart wrote:Whatever it was (is), it's not completely its former self

That's fer darned sure!

It's probably a 250 neck on a 230 body, it's really no big deal really, they're bolt-ons.

rickenmetal wrote:It's probably a 250 neck on a 230 body, it's really no big deal really, they're bolt-ons.

How do you tell the difference between a 230 neck and a 250 neck? Both have dots... both have binding.

http://www.rickenbacker.com/catalog_pos ... -200-6.jpg

Oh, I see, you are right, some of the 230 necks are bound, some seem not to be:

http://www.rickenbacker.com/catalog_pos ... ter_p5.jpg

but perhaps that thing has black binding, can't really tell, so maybe they are all bound.

So it's probably just a 230 with the funky stuff done to the body, it's refinished, as it says, and it has the replaced trc.

Perhaps some 230 models didn't come with neck binding... maybe older ones did and newer ones didn't? I suppose it's possible.

This 230 clearly has it:


http://www.rickresource.com/rrp/RIC200series.html



I still like my 220 and 260 better.