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I was wondering if one of you guys could help out? I've located here in the DFW area a pretty cool Ric.. It's a 1994 360 vintage reissue. But which reissue is the question? It has all of the features of a 360V64 but... it has a gold pickguard, gold logo, and toaster style knobs. Does it sound like a 50's reissue? Thanks in advance.

dfwvintage wrote:I was wondering if one of you guys could help out? I've located here in the DFW area a pretty cool Ric.. It's a 1994 360 vintage reissue. But which reissue is the question? It has all of the features of a 360V64 but... it has a gold pickguard, gold logo, and toaster style knobs. Does it sound like a 50's reissue? Thanks in advance.

There has never been a 50's 360 reissue (unfortunately!), but they'd look pretty different anyway, as the design was changed in the early '60s.

Here's an example of a '50s Rickenbacker:

The guitar you found has been modified with gold plastic parts and new knobs. No less desirable, unless you like your guitars perfectly stock. In fact, many prefer the gold '50s look.

Craig: I'm sure what you found is a 360v64 built in the 1990's that has had the truss rod cover and pickguards swapped for gold. I may have seen the guitar in question hanging in a local Guitar Center a year or two ago along with a 360/12v64 JG. Both of them had been converted to gold. I've got a '90 360/12v64 FG and a '93 360v64 FG.

I'd leave it alone, sounds like it looks cool.

BTW they made guitars like that from late '61-'63....gold guards/oven knobs...

Dig:

take a good look at the horns of the cutaways in t he full shot. they look more 50's, unlike the next shot. Could this be a custon job?

dude that is absolutely a 50's style. In mt last post I thought I was looking at two different shots of the same instrument. What you have is the 50's body style not a 60's. Look at the body closely, and then sell it to me

who told you it was a v64???

seanyfitz wrote:dude that is absolutely a 50's style. In mt last post I thought I was looking at two different shots of the same instrument. What you have is the 50's body style not a 60's.

What are you talking about? Those aren't photos of the OP's guitar. What he has is almost certainly a V64 w/ gold bits, as Daniel suggested.

seanyfitz wrote:dude that is absolutely a 50's style. In mt last post I thought I was looking at two different shots of the same instrument. What you have is the 50's body style not a 60's.

To clear up this confusion...

1.) There is no way the guitar Craig saw isn't a 360v64, because only the v64s were made in 6-string versions, especially ones from 1994. A 360 reissue is pretty darn hard to mistake for something else.

2.) My picture is of a 360 from 1959.

3.) John's is of a 360 from the '61/'62 transition period.

4.) They are different guitars.

5.) Neither is the guitar Craig was describing. Read the text of the thread.

OP is nowhere to be found, has posted no pics to settle things; likely it's the one Randy mentions, I believe.

Much ado about nothing; clearer thinking required.

(Sorry, I've been using my "Answer 8 Ball" the last couple of hours...its style is somewhat terse.)

My point was that if the guitar is a 360V64 that someone put a gold 'guard and TRC on, that it would look cool like that....it wouldn't neccessarily need to be changed back.

The pic was just to show an example of what one of those would look like with the stuff on it.

sorry, my bad, 4:30 am. I am in love with the 59 style body.

seanyfitz wrote:sorry, my bad, 4:30 am. I am in love with the 59 style body.

Aren't we all!

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