1966 Rickenbacker 335 in Mapleglo finish

This is a guitar that's been around the block a few times... I traded a 2007 Les Paul Classic for this diamond in the rough. She was listed on Reverb for about and I became fascinated--a vintage Ric at a great price. The downside: She had an ugly cavity around her neck pickup (some genius had routed and installed a Humbucker, probably in the 1970's, later thought better of it, and re-installed the original toaster, but used some sort of bondo compound to "repair" the hole). She also had lots of honest playwear from 50 years of action. I turned her over to my lutheir who installed a near matching block of vintage Maple in the cleaned out and squared off cavity, gave her a fresh fret job, cleaned up the electronics, and otherwise fine tuned the guitar. I then threw on some new Pyramid strings, some vintage gold plastic accents, and viola'! This is now one of my favorite guitars to play--she's got a very low, clean action, great patina all around, finish crazing, ambering, and lots of bumps and bruises, but she plays like a champ. Fabulous neck; the toasters are clear as a bell, and the blend knob really differentiates between the neck and bridge pickup, like I've never heard before on a Ric. Even the original silver case is really beat up, but looks great in terms of honest road action. Love this thing. Oh yes... Recently, I added a set of really cool authentic 1966 Kluson tuners with caramel buttons, along with a matching ambered switch tip (a non-black vintage Rickenbacker factory switch tip was nowhere to be found). Comes with the original white plastic, gold plastic, tortoise shell plastic (including the TRC's), and original Kluson tuners. Here's some before and after pics: $3800

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