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Bertram
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- One-off Rickenbacker 481/12 Walnut Twelve-string Electric
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- Vintage & Rare Guitar Of The Week: 1968 Rickenbacker 456 6/12 Convertible
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- 1967 Rickenbacker 6000 Bantar Electric 5-string Banjo
guitarz.blogspot.com: This instrument is unmistakably a Rickenbacker with its gently contoured upper body edges, the back's checkered binding, the varnished rosewood neck with distinctive triangular inlays, the fireglo finish... but it's a banjo!...
Guitar
Rickenbacker 260 El Dorado
guitarz.blogspot.com:
I usually avoid to label a guitar as being rare, since it is usually just a cliché intending to add value to a banal instrument - and often it is its only virtue. In the case of this Rickenbacker 260 El Dorado, it might well be true, and it's just a detail because it's above all a Ricky and you can't be disappointed... But you won't find this guitar on rickenbacker.com, it's a short-lived model from the early 1990s and there are not many traces of it left on the Internet, just a few positive reviews here and there...
At first sight, though its quite discreet design, the El Dorado looks bizarre: it has a typical Rickenbacker feel but looks like no other of their more famous models, more like a double cutaway version of a telecaster, if I may say so (another Fender-esque trait is its bolted neck). Its pickups looks like nothing else - they are actually mini humbuckers, very Ricky as are the headstock, the pickguard (more a control plate) and the binding. This one has a fireglo (red burst) finish and golden gear.
The 260 El Dorado doesn't have the presence of a 620 or a 330 but it has the lines of a classic. I'd be curious to know what made people at Rickenbacker release it then cancel it so quick - I'm not against experimentation, on the contrary, but creating a new model is quite a lot of work and investment, it feels like a bad business move...
Bertram
© 2012, Guitarz - The Original Guitar Blog - now in its 10th year!
- Vintage & Rare Guitar Of The Week: The Lanzi Telecarla From Argentina
guitarz.blogspot.com: Last month here on Guitarz we looked at a bass from Argentinian luthiers Lanzi Instruments, namely the Lanzi Mk1 Rick Bass which takes the famous Rickenbacker 4000 series bass design as a starting point and boldy updates it for the...
- One-off Rickenbacker 481/12 Walnut Twelve-string Electric
guitarz.blogspot.com: AS far as I was aware Rickenbacker do not offer one-off or custom shop versions of their guitars and basses, but here we have a factory one-off Rickenbacker 481/12 in a stunning walnut finish, made in August 2011. I guess...
- 1956 Rickenbacker Combo 800: The Coolest Guitar In The World
guitarz.blogspot.com When I think of historical guitars, Rickenbacker Combos comes right away to my mind, but the top model of the Combo line was the Combo 800. It's the last guitar model sporting the legendary horse-shoe pickup, but a special one,...
- Vintage & Rare Guitar Of The Week: 1968 Rickenbacker 456 6/12 Convertible
guitarz.blogspot.com: Just over a year ago we looked at another Rickenbacker 366 featuring this cunning mechanism to switch between 6-string and 12-string playing. I've seen similarly equipped Rickenbackers before, but never before have I seen the...
- 1967 Rickenbacker 6000 Bantar Electric 5-string Banjo
guitarz.blogspot.com: This instrument is unmistakably a Rickenbacker with its gently contoured upper body edges, the back's checkered binding, the varnished rosewood neck with distinctive triangular inlays, the fireglo finish... but it's a banjo!...