C.Bath
Neck/Headstock
The neck length of this guitar is actually in a kind of no-man's land between the two guitars it is based on- it is obviously longer than the 325's 3/4 scale neck yet I believe actually shorter than a 350's neck measurement. It has 24 frets though.
I bought this guitar cheaply on ebay- it had an impossible playing action on it which needed fixing and the description sounded like it had spent time in someone's shed- something which seemed quite likely once saw it for real!
I got very lucky because I lost out on bidding first time around, won another guitar, never received that one, then this reappeared about two weeks later when the buyer didn't pay and I knew destiny was meant to be! So I got onto the bloke and he agreed to finish it early for me.
Getting an old, tatty/broken one was really the only way I was ever going to be able to afford even a copy of a rickenbacker guitar. It has rusted screws everywhere and there were some chips in the paintwork, as well as the dodgy action. So I then found a great repair bloke who was able to fix the action for me and was also willing to newly re-string it to left-handed and chang the strap bolt to the other side for me. I expected the cost of all this to be much higher than he charged, so the unexpected money I saved from this was spent on a brand new little vox pathfinder 10 amp, which I'm well chuffed about too! As a result, I have a rare guitar that is brilliant to play and has cost me under £150, way less than most ricky copies can be got for.
The fact it is now strung left-handed, as well as the fact I 'rescued' it from anymore rusting and damp, makes it a tiny little bit more 'mine' and personal, which is great! I love it dearly!
Neck/Headstock
The neck length of this guitar is actually in a kind of no-man's land between the two guitars it is based on- it is obviously longer than the 325's 3/4 scale neck yet I believe actually shorter than a 350's neck measurement. It has 24 frets though.
I bought this guitar cheaply on ebay- it had an impossible playing action on it which needed fixing and the description sounded like it had spent time in someone's shed- something which seemed quite likely once saw it for real!
I got very lucky because I lost out on bidding first time around, won another guitar, never received that one, then this reappeared about two weeks later when the buyer didn't pay and I knew destiny was meant to be! So I got onto the bloke and he agreed to finish it early for me.
Getting an old, tatty/broken one was really the only way I was ever going to be able to afford even a copy of a rickenbacker guitar. It has rusted screws everywhere and there were some chips in the paintwork, as well as the dodgy action. So I then found a great repair bloke who was able to fix the action for me and was also willing to newly re-string it to left-handed and chang the strap bolt to the other side for me. I expected the cost of all this to be much higher than he charged, so the unexpected money I saved from this was spent on a brand new little vox pathfinder 10 amp, which I'm well chuffed about too! As a result, I have a rare guitar that is brilliant to play and has cost me under £150, way less than most ricky copies can be got for.
The fact it is now strung left-handed, as well as the fact I 'rescued' it from anymore rusting and damp, makes it a tiny little bit more 'mine' and personal, which is great! I love it dearly!