The grapevine lead me to it and a deal was done. It passed through 2 more sets of hands then it landed in a music store in Chapel Hill. ![]() Opened up and hollowed out to 58 standards, 50's Bigsby and bridge, 50's Waverly tuners and a hundred other mods making it as close to John's Sullivan show RIC as humanly possible. Mine started life as a 325v59 a friend rebuilt it as a model for his guitar modding business. ![]() As you have already noticed copies are hard to find, and since Rickenbacker has dropped the 325c58 (they continue the 325c64) originals are getting harder to find.īargains(?) can be found. Epiphone makes a version that can be found for around $450 as a second. Recent models include the walnut series (330W, 330W/12, 360W, 360W/W), which have walnut bodies and unfinished maple fingerboards. ![]() If you want early Lennon he played just 2 guitars, the Rickenbacker 325(2 different ones known as the Hamburg and the Miami or V81 and DB122 for the serial numbers) and the Gibson J-160e. John Lennon used a Rickenbacker 325 in the early days of The Beatles, and the companys electric twelve-string 360/12 model became a key part of their sound on 'A Hard Days Night'.
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