One of Only Twelve Autumnglo 360's from the First Year.

1958 Rickenbacker 360 "OS" (two pickups, no vibrato).

This 15-inch-wide thin-body (2 inches deep) full-size guitar weighs just 6.50 lbs. and has a nice medium-to-thick profile neck with a nut width of just under 1 5/8 inches and a scale length of 24 3/4 inches. Single-bound hollow maple body with a "cat's-eye" or slash soundhole, three-piece maple/walnut/maple neck, and a rosewood fretboard with 21 medium thin frets and triangular pearl position markers. Three-piece (maple/walnut/maple) with gold opaque plastic logo plate with black lettering. Individual 'single-line' Kluson Deluxe tuners with oval metal buttons (all stamped "D-169400 / Patent No." on the underside) and hexagonal bushings. Two Rickenbacker chrome bar "toaster" pickups with chrome covers and outputs of 7.40k and 7.69k. Two-piece split-level gold lucite pickguard with four screws. Four controls (two volume, two tone) plus three-way pickup selector switch, all on lower level of pickguard. Rickenbacker TV style black plastic knobs with gold diamond inlays on top. The potentiometers are stamped "137 848" (CTS December 1958). Rickenbacker bridge and Rickenbacker 'flat' tailpiece. The serial number "2T 201" (December 1958) is stamped onto the jack plate. This beautiful super rare guitar is in exceptionally fine (9.00) condition, with only a few small surface marks on the back of the neck and the body and a minuscule amount of belt buckle scarring on the back of the guitar. Housed in its original Rickenbacker silver hardshell case with black leather ends and red plush lining (8.50).

"Models 360-375-- The third division of the 1958 Thin Hollow Body Series consisted of full sized guitars with the same Deluxe features. The body shape was the same as Models 330-345 from 1958 to the summer of 1964; then it changed… The guitars from this group were the finest and most expensive of the Thin Body Capri guitars. They had neck binding, triangle finger board inlays, and body binding. The two tone brown sunburst guitars had white body binding while the natural maple guitars had brown wood binding which was later changed to white. The factory produced the first commercially sold Deluxe Thin Body guitars in May and June of 1958. (They produced the forerunner prototype at least a year earlier according to a dated photo in the Rickenbacker archive.)… Two gold pickguards, four T.V. style knobs, and one switch became standard for the Models 360 and 365 before the end of 1958. The non-vibrato model had the flat tailpiece." (Richard R. Smith. The History of Rickenbacker Guitars, p. 171).

"360 1959 Following a logical styling patters that would become established Rickenbacker practice, the 360 was a deluxe version of the 330, with obvious cosmetic differences. The body was bound, likewise the fingerboard, which also sported triangular position markers." Tony Bacon and Paul Day, The Rickenbacker Book (with double-spread color photograph) pp. 30-31.

Just twelve 360 "OS" in Autumnglo (with "toaster" pickups) were shipped in 1958 (the first year), followed by eighty-three in 1959, and then the final ten in 1960 making a total of 105.