1966 Rickenbacker 335 in MapleGlo

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 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 vintage cream Rickenbacker factory switch tip was nowhere to be found). Comes with gold guards/TRC as in the pics, the original white pickguards/TRC, and tortoise shell plastic/TRC, and original Kluson tuners. Here's some before and after pics: $4000

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