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Someone in the Rickenbacker workshop signed his (or her) name underneath my bridge pickup. Neat! I wonder who it was. The S/N indicates the bass was built in the first week of Jan 2010.

There have always been signatures of RIC factory workers in the control cavities of the guitars.

Looks like "Helen" to me.

I've heard that name, before. Binding scraper, maybe?

Yeah, I thought it looked like 'Helen'. Either that or "Helv', as in short for 'Helvetica'?

She didn't leave her number

I wonder if they do that for inspection reasons as the guitar goes down the line.

paologregorio wrote:Looks like "Helen" to me.

I like that RIC appears to employee more females than other guitar makers (and I gather it's been that way for quite some time, I recall a thread about the woman who built Lennon's first guitar). You go girls!

Here is a picture of Helen.

Jeffrey, something tells me that's the wrong Helen!

And I didn't realize that Helen of Troy was 12 years old!

looks like avril levigne ... hot and petite !

bassduke49 wrote:And I didn't realize that Helen of Troy was 12 years old!

I'm sure she was at some point in her life.

Well, my thanks go out to Helen of Ric for a nicely done job!

Its more like Help!

I see a t and two noses with upper lips. I see stuff......................