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I was just looking through some of the old topics here and I found a pic of this electric

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h146/ ... C00292.jpg

I'm assuming its a custom restoration by Paul, I think it could easily be one of the best Ricks I've ever seen. Are there any more pics and maybe a background story to go with it?

IIRC it's a '60 Capri, restored by Paul. Incredible guitar.

Well, that is certainly Paul's table!

jps wrote:Well, that is certainly Paul's table!

Yes, it's unmistakably Paul's ... a normal table would just have plain binding!

doctorwho wrote:

jps wrote:Well, that is certainly Paul's table!

Yes, it's unmistakably Paul's ... a normal table would just have plain binding!

Not only that, it would only have been Mapleglo.

Yeah, that's my '60 Capri, following a looong resto. Finished in August '06, just before the RIC 75 festivities.

Back story:

I was hankering after a Capri, and wrote Jwilli asking if he knew of any available. He, in fact, had a '60 365 in MG, which had suffered somewhat from an amateur resto and refinish many years before. It was, however, structurally sound and complete, with a perfect neck that I was later do discover, was the slimmest I'd ever played.

We made a deal (he is a super guy to deal with, as you all probably know!), and it arrived in the Fall of '05. I began immediately to tear it down, and it received a new back, binding, and I procured a set of butterbean tuners and a Kaufmann to replace the nicely-relicked Accent by Paul, which now resides on Alisha Tremaine's own Capri. The front and back were veneered with birdseye maple, and it got a new double-bind job in checkerboard and white genuine celuloid. The headstock is checkerboard-bound, the fretboard is bound in a white/black multiple stripe scheme, and the TRC is laser-engraved from the reverse side and painted in chrome lettering on a gold background.

The paint work is a five-color wine burst. The top guard is gold, the bottom tortoise shell. Wiring was redone and the original pickups are hot!

It's a joy, both to look at and to play.

Here are some good pics:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v693/ ... C05497.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v693/ ... C05500.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v693/ ... C05501.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v693/ ... C05495.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v693/ ... 0018sm.jpg

Paul..is that a similar finish to your "cowboy" acoustic?

Great choice to use the tortoise-gold PG, Paul...very vintage Ric.

I guess 1960 was the year for superthin necks.

Is the Kauffman handle the same in the first pic and the others you posted? Did you machine it yourself?

The "Cowboy" acoustic (now owned by a NYC enthusiast) was a whole different color and look, although the shot posed on Rickentable, was lit by a single incandescent which tends to pump up the reds and yellows, making the two look alike.

The "Cowboy" 700C was blood-red-orange, with chocolate brown shading--essentially a two-color burst. The 365 started with a pale red/lavender center, moved through FG to purple to chocolate brown (opaque) with a tiny bit of black right at the binding.

Both geetars have ambered binding.

The Kauffman handle is a stock one from a C58. It has been my intention to make a new, longer one, from polished stainless steel rod and bar stock, but no time yet.

Paul, looking at those 3 guitars, I think I love you and hate you in equal measures.

If I was a Ric colour, at the moment I would be green-with-envy-glo!

Wow, the acoustics are real swell, too Love the jumbo!

You have to love that binding.

jingle_jangle wrote:Yeah, that's my '60 Capri, following a looong resto. Finished in August '06, just before the RIC 75 festivities.

Back story:

I was hankering after a Capri, and wrote Jwilli asking if he knew of any available. He, in fact, had a '60 365 in MG, which had suffered somewhat from an amateur resto and refinish many years before. It was, however, structurally sound and complete, with a perfect neck that I was later do discover, was the slimmest I'd ever played.

We made a deal (he is a super guy to deal with, as you all probably know!), and it arrived in the Fall of '05. I began immediately to tear it down, and it received a new back, binding, and I procured a set of butterbean tuners and a Kaufmann to replace the nicely-relicked Accent by Paul, which now resides on Alisha Tremaine's own Capri. The front and back were veneered with birdseye maple, and it got a new double-bind job in checkerboard and white genuine celuloid. The headstock is checkerboard-bound, the fretboard is bound in a white/black multiple stripe scheme, and the TRC is laser-engraved from the reverse side and painted in chrome lettering on a gold background.

The paint work is a five-color wine burst. The top guard is gold, the bottom tortoise shell. Wiring was redone and the original pickups are hot!

It's a joy, both to look at and to play.

Here are some good pics:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v693/ ... C05497.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v693/ ... C05500.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v693/ ... C05501.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v693/ ... C05495.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v693/ ... 0018sm.jpg

Wow! I'd love one of those in Blue Boy!

Haha, only Paul could have a FG CB table like that.