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Gear Discussion Forums => Guitars Etc. => Topic started by: Dave W on April 24, 2022, 09:47:52 PM

Title: A rare Ric
Post by: Dave W on April 24, 2022, 09:47:52 PM: 1960 Rickenbacker 360F Capri Maple Glo (https://waltgracevintage.com/products/1959-rickenbacker-360f-maple-glo-electric-guitar)
Title: Re: A rare Ric
Post by: Pilgrim on April 25, 2022, 09:43:06 AM: Interesting. I paid less for each of the first two mobile homes I lived in.
Title: Re: A rare Ric
Post by: ilan on April 26, 2022, 12:47:34 PM: If you can find a Gumby headstock Ric neck, it's fairly easy for a builder to replicate the F style body. It's just a flat top hollow body. Not nearly as complicated as replicating the carved, German-shouldered, hollowed-out bodies on their other models. It may even sound better.

You can start here: https://www.ebay.com/itm/304437728967
Title: Re: A rare Ric
Post by: Dave W on April 27, 2022, 12:13:30 AM: Quote from: ilan on April 26, 2022, 12:47:34 PM
If you can find a Gumby headstock Ric neck, it's fairly easy for a builder to replicate the F style body. It's just a flat top hollow body. Not nearly as complicated as replicating the carved, German-shouldered, hollowed-out bodies on their other models. It may even sound better.

You can start here: https://www.ebay.com/itm/304437728967

No doubt you could, but what does that have to do with this one?
Title: Re: A rare Ric
Post by: ilan on April 27, 2022, 04:44:22 PM: Just a thought. F style Rics are impossible to find, and if someone likes them this is the only way to sort of get one.