Rare Jetglo 950

This 13-inch-wide three-quarter-size student model with a tulip-shaped body (the offset cutaways both curve out, but the thicker left horn provides an uneven "tulip" shape) weighs just 5.80 lbs. and has a nut width of inches and a short scale length of 21 inches. Solid maple body, maple neck, and rosewood fretboard with 21 frets and white dot position markers. Headstock with white opaque plastic logo plate with black lettering. Individual Kluson Deluxe tuners with oval white plastic buttons. Two Rickenbacker "toaster" pickups with chrome covers and outputs of 3.96k and 7.61k. White opaque plastic pickguard. Four controls (two volume, two tone) plus three-way selector switch and jack socket, all on pickguard. Seven-sided black plastic knobs.

Housed in the original Rickenbacker silver hardshell case with red plush lining (8.75).

"Models 900, 950, and 1000 -- These short scale student guitars came out in 1957. The 900 had a single pickup and a twenty-one fret neck. The 950 was the same as the 900, but with two pickups. The 1000 had one pickup and an eighteen fret neck. These guitars had neck-through-body construction. (The original factory designation was C150-18 fret, C150-21 fret, and C150-21 frets-2-pickups.)...The production models were three-quarter size tulip shaped guitars. They amended the shape slightly in the last part of the year to include a 'new cutaway feature.' The new shape had less than perfect symmetry which allowed easier access to the upper frets. Original colors included brown, black, gray, and natural..After 1968 and before 1975, the body shape on the 900 and 950 changed from the tulip style to the cresting wave style" (Richard R. Smith, The History of Rickenbacker Guitars, p. 145). According to Richard R. Smith (p. 237), at total of 134 950s were shipped from the factory between 1957 and 1965 in the following colors: 59 Fireglo; 26 Jetglo; 19 Natural; 1 Brown; 34 with no color specified.

George Harrison used a somewhat similar 1963 Jetglo 425 which was converted by Rickenbacker to a two pickup version (à la 450), and is now on display at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio.