Private Tour of the Rickenbacker Factory

[thx1955]

Hi All,
Back in August 2005, Rickenbacker Forum Members held a weekend long SoCalCon in Orange County. As part of that weekend a few of us on the Friday before the meeting were privileged to be given a tour of the Factory by John Hall.

I've quite a few unique pictures from that tour, including the Factory and the Museum.

As soon as I can figure out how to post said pictures I'll upload them.

[ilan]

I remember both pics. The first iirc is of the new guy they hired to finish carving the Lemmy basses after a 4 years delay when the original carver left. The second is the "dumpster bass" that Ric employees presented to John Hall.

[thx1955]

The gentleman carving the Lemmy's was in fact Rickenbcker's last full time Luthier, he'd previously been finishing off the last of the Ric hollow body acoustics.

He spent a fair time with us showing us how he approached each individual wing and hw each one differed based on the grain and pattern of the Walnut.

You're right, the other is indeed the Dumpster.

Here's two more ....
John Hall with Lemmy's actual bass which was in for a tune up
And
The Last of the Lemmy Walnut Wings ...

The guy in the Black is ... Me