clarkuss Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Today I bought the smallest guitar in my collection. This is a google image. Actual pictures to follow. I'm going to get a new truss rod cover and maybe try and find a vibrola unit or an "R" tailpiece. My friend is also lending me his C series 58 325 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaSTuS Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Today I bought the smallest guitar in my collection. This is a google image. Actual pictures to follow. I'm going to get a new truss rod cover and maybe try and find a vibrola unit or an "R" tailpiece. My friend is also lending me his C series 58 325 Good stuff, looks a mean little bugger, it may be the smallest, i bet it ain't the quietest though. Enjoy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vic Flick Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Today I bought the smallest guitar in my collection. This is a google image. Actual pictures to follow. I'm going to get a new truss rod cover and maybe try and find a vibrola unit or an "R" tailpiece. My friend is also lending me his C series 58 325 Don't let John Hall see that!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarkuss Posted April 20, 2009 Author Share Posted April 20, 2009 Jerry, what make is the third one? RE: Mr. Hall - Haha! yes indeed. I respect that he wants to protect his brand but it kind of annoys me when people on certain forums (not here) get high and mighty about it. I want to one day own a real 325 but I'm not going to get on stage in a Beatle band with a wonky pickguard saying anniversary... I'm all for brand protection and integrity of the product but I'm hardly going to make money out of it or eat into rickenbacker's profits. If I had a spare £2500 I would have bought a rickenbacker. Now I've got this, it makes me even more keen to own the genuine article and allows me to start down the path of playing gigs with a respectable look-alike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JefferySmith Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Today I bought the smallest guitar in my collection. This is a google image. Actual pictures to follow. I'm going to get a new truss rod cover and maybe try and find a vibrola unit or an "R" tailpiece. My friend is also lending me his C series 58 325 I've given up on acquiring one of those. The prices are astronomical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarkuss Posted April 20, 2009 Author Share Posted April 20, 2009 Lots of people on the beatles forum I post on make their own or completely mod them to the exact specs. Incredible what some people can do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vic Flick Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Jerry' date=' what make is the third one? RE: Mr. Hall - Haha! yes indeed. I respect that he wants to protect his brand but it kind of annoys me when people on certain forums (not here) get high and mighty about it. I want to one day own a real 325 but I'm not going to get on stage in a Beatle band with a wonky pickguard saying anniversary... I'm all for brand protection and integrity of the product but I'm hardly going to make money out of it or eat into rickenbacker's profits. If I had a spare £2500 I would have bought a rickenbacker. Now I've got this, it makes me even more keen to own the genuine article and allows me to start down the path of playing gigs with a respectable look-alike [/quote'] Tokai. I don't have that one anymore, I should have never sold it. It was like a real Ric-12 with a normal width neck!!! A pleasure to play. I still have the other two, the top one is a mid sixties Ideal. When I was in High School back in the 1960s, I bought one of those (not the same one). That was my main guitar until I got a Gibson ES-330 in the Summer of '69. I never had a 325, but I had the full scale 350 version: I don't have Rickenbackers anymore, I never really never played them and with prices going up, I decided to take the profit. I used to hang at the RIC forum, but it got really intense. BTW, how's the Hofner Club. I was looking at them last year, never pulled the trigger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarkuss Posted April 20, 2009 Author Share Posted April 20, 2009 I know what you mean about the Ric forum. Sometimes I feel so out of my depth on some forums. I've taken a liking to the ricky style stuff though and can definitely see myself getting another 12. Shame about your tokai. Great quality guitars. The Hofner Club is a bit "meh" to me. I don't realy play it very much. The neck is very lightweight and thin and the thing is incredibly trebly. I've owned it for about a year but the guitarist in my band played it for most of that time and in the last couple of months I haven't really picked it up much. I got it very very cheap with a hardcase so no harm done and it's done a good job so far. fretboard doesn't seem all that fast but i've not really put much time into it so can't judge it fairly. I sometimes forget I own it to be honest. The new 325 copy cost me a tiny bit more but about half the list price for the club and already it's obvious it is better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenrirlupus Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 i'd just go truss rod cover-less or scratch out that "anniversary" but nice one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarkuss Posted April 20, 2009 Author Share Posted April 20, 2009 I'm going to get a new TRC for it and I think I will be as happy as I can be with it! (for now) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
floydpink7 Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 I... LOVE the Rickenbacker 4001 bass!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarkuss Posted April 20, 2009 Author Share Posted April 20, 2009 My friend picked up a cool Bickenracker 4001 for around the same price as mine in the same place. Looks and sounds awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vic Flick Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 I... LOVE the Rickenbacker 4001 bass!!! So do I, wish I had one (that one's not real). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgrasso Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 Today I bought the smallest guitar in my collection. This is a google image. Actual pictures to follow. I'm going to get a new truss rod cover and maybe try and find a vibrola unit or an "R" tailpiece. My friend is also lending me his C series 58 325 Nice find Clark. I'm sure it now has a great home and other playmates to keep it company. Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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