Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

If anyone would like to see a really small 60's headstock, check out the 330 MG seen in the pics of the guitarist for the 60's Mod band 'Powder'. Great song BTW,!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1_FcgL6KvI

Does anyone have a really small headstock they could show from a similar guitar?

How's this?

Here is the one on my '67 330:

That's what I like to call a NORMAL Rickenbacker headstock.


All others just got it wrong....

collin wrote:That's what I like to call a NORMAL Rickenbacker headstock.


All others just got it wrong....

+1

Who had the bright idea to "magnify" them in the first place?

egosheep wrote:Who had the bright idea to "magnify" them in the first place?

Some of the 50s Ricks had large headstocks, but IIRC the headstocks were enlarged in the early 80s to accomodate the large Grover and large Schaller tuners, as it was thought that the lager tuners would cause the skinnier, er "normal" ( I agree Collin), headstocks to crack if the modern tuners were used with the small headstock. Personally, I think the keys on Schallers are boxy and unattractive, and I couldn't care less how well they work. I think my slot topped vintage style Klusons work great, and my Gotoh slot top Kluson style vintage tuners work as smoothly as Schallers-more so than even real Klusons. If I had the cash, I'd switch the tuners on every guitar I own to the slot topped Klusons or Gotohs.

Oddly enough, the only tuners I've ever had fail (become loose and lose tune, or strip), were Schallers on my '95 TUR lightshow......50 year old Klusons have held up better!