Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

I was giving a detailed look to the Rickenbacker Register and checking the way Ric Co. used the serials in his products (guitars an basses). Checkink here and there -between 1973 and 1984- I believe this was, in a very aproximated way, the "total" producction of both instruments year by year: around 70,000 distribuited in the following way:

1973: +/- 7700
1974: +/- 8100
1975: +/- 8600
1976: +/- 8100
1977: +/- 8400
1978: +/- 7800
1979: +/- 6000
1980: +/- 5300
1981: +/- 4500
1982: +/- 3100
1983: +/- 1700

If I am not wrong that means near 70,000 instruments in 11 years.... What about the low producction tendence in early 80's... Is that real?

The only fact I am using here is that I am taking maximum serial number on december of each year I found..... So the question is: sound this reasonable? If yes, the next answer I want is to know how many Reickenbacker 480 / 481 and 483 were fabricated....

regards

A lot of us would like to know that...

Hehehehehe I know... I am the last of the line....pushing ....hehehehehe

Rick Four80 wrote:The only fact I am using here is that I am taking maximum serial number on december of each year I found..... So the question is: sound this reasonable?

You can't compare that way. Some years the numbers did not recycle, other years they did, and some years they were recycled each month or at least more than once in the year. You also have to consider that amp serial numbers were in the mix there too during some of those years.

Without doing some serious paper and database work, I can only give you a rough number of about 122,000 instruments produced in that 10 year period.

You can't compare that way. Some years the numbers did not recycle, other years they did, and some years they were recycled each month or at least more than once in the year. You also have to consider that amp serial numbers were in the mix there too during some of those years.

Without doing some serious paper and database work, I can only give you a rough number of about 122,000 instruments produced in that 10 year period.

I am agree with you... In any case, looks like between 1973 and 1983, Rickenbacker recycled the serial numbers every year.... I don't know how significative could be the amplifiers serial numbers....

thanks