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1967 Rickenbacker

Color: Mapleglo (Natural), Rating: 9.00, Sold (ID# 00766)
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This 15-inch-wide thin-body (1 1/2 inches deep) full-size guitar weighs just 6.70 lbs. and has a nut width of 1 5/8 inches and a scale length of 24 3/4 inches. Unbound hollow birds-eye maple body with a "cat's-eye" or slash soundhole, three-piece maple/walnut/maple neck, and a rosewood fretboard with 21 frets and white dot position markers. Five-piece (maple/walnut/maple/walnut/maple) headstock with white opaque plastic logo plate with black lettering. Individual dual-line Kluson Deluxe tuners with oval metal buttons. Two Rickenbacker chrome bar "toaster" pickups with chrome covers and outputs of 7.56k and 8.19k. Two-piece split-level white plastic pickguard with four screws. Five controls (two volume, two tone, and one blend control) plus three-way pickup selector switch, all on lower level of pickguard. Seven-sided black plastic knobs with metal tops with black lettering. The potentiometers are stamped "137 6726" (CTS June 1967). Rickenbacker bridge and Rickenbacker "R" tailpiece. The serial number "GJ 4203" (October 1967) is stamped onto the jack plate. This beautiful guitar has a lovely "birds-eye" maple top and back and apart from two small areas of wear on the back is in exceptionally fine (9.00) condition. Housed in its original Rickenbacker silver hardshell case with blue plush lining (9.00).

Production figures for 1967 are not available, but it is known that one single (the first) 330 in Mapleglo (with "toaster" pickups) was shipped in late 1958, followed by 19 in 1959, 8 in 1960, 1 in 1963, 5 in 1964, 17 in 1965, 41 in 1966, and then the final 27 in 1968.

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