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  •  Model
     450
  •  Strings
     12
  •  Finish
     Fireglo
  •  Manufacturing Date
     1977-05
  •  Serial #
     QE2152
  •  Registration Date
     Sep 05 2012
  •  Country
     USA
  •  State/Province
     
  •  Lefty
     No
  •  Refinished
     No
  •  Collected Item
     Yes
  •  Registered User
     Yes
  •  Comments
     http://www.frettedamericana.com/product/1977-rickenbacker-combo-450

    his Fireglo 13-inch-wide solid-body 12-string with a 'cresting-wave' shape weighs just 7.30 lbs. has a nut width of just under 1 5/8 inches and a scale length of 24.50 inches. Double cutaway maple body with neck-through-body construction. One-piece maple neck, rosewood fretboard with 21 original medium-to-thin frets and white dot position markers. Serial number "QE 2152" stamped onto bridge/tailpiece assembly. Headstock with opaque white plastic, crescent-shaped plate lettered in white "Rickenbacker" and secured with three screws. Individual dual-line Kluson Deluxe tuners with oval metal buttons. Two Rickenbacker 'High-Gain' Single-Coil pickups, both with two height-adjustment screws and outputs of 12.38k and 12.40k. Single-layer opaque white plastic pickguard with eight screws. Four controls (two volume, two tone) plus three-way pickup selector switch and jack socket, all on pickguard. The potentiometers are stamped stamped "137 763X" (last number obscured by solder) and 137 7642" (CTS, October & November 1976). Seven-sided black plastic knobs with metal tops with black lettering. Rickenbacker pre compensated aluminium bridge with two height-adjustment screws which in turn sits on a Rickenbacker chrome-plated tailpiece secured by five screws. Inside the control cavity, written in pencil is "R-450/12". There are a few very minor surface marks on the edges but this thirty-four year old solid-body twelve-string guitar is still in exceptionally fine (9.00) condition. Housed in the original Rickenbacker three-latch, rectangular Silver-Gray case with black leather ends and blue plush lining (9.00).
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  •   This item was identified as a Late vintage (1973 up to and including 1983) instrument
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      Same model, same era:   $1200  $1506  $1490  $1850  10

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