B series?
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B series?
I just acquired this for Peter Levett, and this is a bit of a conundrum. From what I can gather this is a B series 360BWB with the knobs replaced with vintage style ones, and the Kluson tuners replaced with Schallers, but there is no evidence the tuners have been swapped out. A normal 360WB does not have a bound soundhole, nor does it have toaster pickups, both of which this guitar has.
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Re: B series?
An early 80's 360/12 with soundhole binding (first guitar on the page). Another. Pickups could have been replaced, of course.
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Okay, I was going by a RIC catalog photo. So, the pickups, knobs and tuners may have been changed out. Hmm...sloop_john_b wrote:An early 80's 360/12 with soundhole binding (first guitar on the page). Another. Pickups could have been replaced, of course.
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I think it's just a lefty `86 WB with toasters and vintage style knobs. Those things were available then. I've never seen a lefty 12 with an upside down headstock. Has anyone else seen this? Didn't I read somewhere that RIC didn't make raised letter lefty TRCs?
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That's correct, plexi only.paologregorio wrote:Didn't I read somewhere that RIC didn't make raised letter lefty TRCs?
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the 360WB's had bound soundholes, it would be the exception to find one without that binding...A normal 360WB does not have a bound soundhole, nor does it have toaster pickups, both of which this guitar has
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I was going by the photo in the RIC catalog. So, there is at least one out there, somewhere.jsm610 wrote:the 360WB's had bound soundholes, it would be the exception to find one without that binding...A normal 360WB does not have a bound soundhole, nor does it have toaster pickups, both of which this guitar has
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I seem to remember that the 360/12OS models did not have a bound sound hole. When that model was renamed "WB" they had the binding. Forgive me if that isn't right but that's how I remember it.
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It depends on the year. Some of the 70s and very early 80s WB models do not have a bound sound hole.jps wrote:I was going by the photo in the RIC catalog. So, there is at least one out there, somewhere.jsm610 wrote:the 360WB's had bound soundholes, it would be the exception to find one without that binding...A normal 360WB does not have a bound soundhole, nor does it have toaster pickups, both of which this guitar has
My 11/84 built WB has a bound soundhole, and came with toaster p/ups, but I ordered it with the toasters. Toasters, or "Vintage style 'chrome bar' pickups" as they were called then, were newly available from RIC in the early 80s.
Re: B series?
Send an e-mail to Rickenbacker service and see if they can look it up and find out what it left the factory as.
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I need to call RIC anyway so I will ask them.
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My .02: I would say that it is a 360/12WB, LH, FG, and possibly VP (vintage p'ups option) which was available at the time I believe.
Other than the knobs I think that it is all original.....
Other than the knobs I think that it is all original.....