Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

Hi Paul, I have not posted in over a year. it is great to see all the projects you have completed. The 1968 335 you refinished for me is looking and sounding as good as ever.

I completed my first build last summer in a class setting and have been working on a couple of other projects in my shop. Also had a baby last year, which has been great. It has been slow going, but adding tools and machinery at each step of the building process as needed. I have been working on Telecaster style guitars, but I am going to start some Rickenbacker inspired projects this summer.

Dave

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Dave, it's great to hear from you again, and to see that your interest in luthiery has resulted in a commitment and some really gorgeous work. You can understand how gratifying it is to complete a project, and then actually play it...it's quite different from some other creative pursuits.

Congrats on the new addition to the Coyle family, too!

Please check in frequently, and I welcome your posts and pictures. Feel free to share!

Paul, thanks for the encouraging words. It has taken a long time to get a working shop together. The amount of tools and supplies required is staggering, but I am about there and I can now put ideas to action fairly quickly.

So here's one I had last night: I have always loved the Rickenbacker 450, and the Telecaster, so i decided yesterday to take the things of each that I like, and create a Rickencaster Frankenstein.

I'm doing something similar to this with a 425S: I have several in process of resto; one will receive a pair of Fender Jag pickups (only change is to pickguard and is reversible!) and a set of 1 MEG pots for the Jag sound; then I can play a Rick in my surf band everyday!

I know what you're saying about tools and equipment. I fortunately run the school shop and have a number of my own machines now installed as well for student use upon request.

However, for the first time in my career, I don't have "my own" shop. My entire 30-year accumulation of hand and power tools, cabinets, and Snap-On and Kennedy boxes are still in Brasil at my studio there, so I had to start that whole collection anew when I re-established myself in San Fran; It's coming along nicely, though after four years, thank God.