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I had this copy for a couple decades which I think I got from the library, and decided to scan it. Rare Bird Rickenbacker's Early Electric 12-strings, Guitar Player 1988 (July?) page 138


Stratosphere 12 strings were mentioned in the article, too. Here's some links I found.

TK Smith’s Stratosphere Twin (circa 1956 or ’57),
https://www.fretboardjournal.com/column ... here-twin/

https://tksmith.net/2010/09/15/195657-s ... re-guitar/

https://www.guitarfail.com/blast-from-t ... re-guitar/


Interesting quote I found:

I went, “Wow, I love the sound of that.” I’d heard 12-string sounds on the radio before, like the Searchers and the Seekers — although I learned later that they were playing six-string guitars, but with another guitarist playing octaves, or something like that. But that 12-string sound was something that I loved.

https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists ... ourine-man

That is most excellent, and nostalgic for me, being a Rickenbacker fan of the 1980s. And, I have a '60s 360/12 OS!

The earliest Rickenbacker 12-strings:
#1 - 360/12 OS - given to Suzie Arden, has the typical acoustic stringing instead of what we now know as Rickenbacker stringing.
#2 - 360/12 OS - given to George Harrison, and the rest is history.
#3 - 620/12 - owned by Mike Campbell, held by Tom Petty on the Damn the Torpedoes Cover.