Search CG!    
 
Navigation
 
Guitar History  
Guitar Specs  
Guitar Galleries  
Discussion Group  
Guitar Store  
Guitar Wisdom  
Guitar Links  
     
CG Newsletter

Be the undisputed guitar guru. Subscribe to our newsletter & get free guitar information and great offers!

Name:
E-Mail:
 
Guitar Stuff
 
  CG Power Quiz
- Test your guitar knowledge!
Top 100 Guitar Sites!
- vote for this site!
Page Info
 


 

 

 

Rickenbacker 12 stringers

    Rickenbacker 12 String Models vintage specs.

    This is a Rickenbacker 330-12, a 12-string version of the popular 330 by Rickenbacker. Rickenbacker's guitars featured a thin and rounded hollow body with a single round triangular sound hole. The 12 string guitar from Rickenbacker also featured these, with some additional innovations of it's own.

Pickups

1932 to 1943: Horseshoe pickup, 1 1/2" wide, magnet wraps over strings.

1946 to 1971: Horseshoe pickup, 1 1/4" wide, magnet wraps over strings.

1957 to 1970: "Toaster" pickup, looks like the top of a bread toaster.
1960 to present: "Rick-O-Sound" stereo (extra jack) on deluxe models. 1969 to present: Hi-Gain pickups.

Pickups Pickguards.
1956 to 1963: Gold back-painted clear Lucite.

1964 to present: Thick white plastic.


1958 to present: Split level pickguards on hollowbody models.
Knobs.
1956 to 1963: "TV" or "Stove" knobs, large diamond gold knobs with raised black thin center section.

1964 to present: Black knobs with edge indents.
Vintage specs

330-12: Twelve string version of model 330, introduced in 1965.

360-12: Twelve string version of model 360, introduced in 1964 with 2 pickups, "Rick-O-Sound" stereo, double bound top, bound back, bound cat-eye soundhole, bound fingerboard with triangle inlays, flat plate tailpiece. In fall 1964 new body style with rounded top edge and no top binding, checkered back binding, "R" tailpiece.

336-12: Twelve string version of model 330 but with a "comb" to disengage extra 6 strings, introduced 1966. Discontinued 1974.

366-12: Twelve string version of model 360 but with a "comb" to disengage extra 6 strings, introduced 1966. Discontinued 1974.

Discontinued 1943.

 

 

Hosted by www.Geocities.ws

1