I love playing rhythm and the playing of a short scale is a direction I want to go in with my money and my next guitar purchase. I can't even play the lead to "Yesterday" - by the way, there is no lead in "Yesterday" and I can't even play that. Maybe I'll give that idea a go just for the fun. I already have heavy gauge flatwounds on mine. That notion of capoing up a heavy gauge Casino is interesting. Ric may not do super-well producing a standard short scale guitar. The demand for a short scale may be low and the notion that short scales are kiddie guitars is high. Yes, I do see the point of public dictating what a company manufactures. Junior Member Posts: 106 Joined: Fri 3:14 pm There's no reason it can't be done, other than for the profit motive. Hall and his folks will stand up and acknowledge their place and thus, duty, in history and make some kind of 320/325 affordable for the up and coming guitarists out there. I only wish that before I'm dead and gone that Mr. Unfortunately, Ric probably has an order backlog that puts "cranking out" 325's at the same rate and price as 330's impossible. Very close to the 320.325 feel, and even the sound depending on the pickups.
Install a set of heavier strings (.12), put a capo on the third fret, and then tune it to concert pitch with the capo on. 30 years from now, nobody alive will possibly remember this as a watershed event.īuy yourself a used 330 or Epiphone Casino, or whatever hollow thing the cat dragged in. My comment at the time was, in a few years it will be the 50th anniversary of the Beatles appearing on Ed Sullivan, playing this guitar. It was fun to play for about 15 minutes, with me all dressed up in non-scratching flannel, and after nailing the sound on a few Beatles classics, I figured, this is a piece of art, I can't bang this around the playroom as a player. Last year, I managed to find a 325v63 JetGlo with all the case candies and tags that was in IMMMAAACCUULATE condition. It's just an accident of history that John Lennon picked up one of these in Germany because the Beatles were looking for "different" sounds, while all the other gin-joint performers were jumping on the Fender or Gibson bandwagon. Ric originally made the short-scale guitars to please the jazz players who wanted something "faster". They are all assumed to be toys for the kiddies, so your $100 gets you a Squire Mini made somewhere on this planet where they know nothing about guitars. NO guitar mfgr makes a quality 3/4 scale anymore. Intermediate Member Posts: 1476 Joined: Mon 9:56 am Location: Moncton, New Brunswick But if they don't produce exactly what you want, that's it then isn't it? It seems like YOU'RE the one in the bind, not RIC, or any other company for that matter! If you don't want to buy used, you're immediately stuck with current production. If I want to buy a SG Jr with small guard, I HAVE to buy used, I can't get mad at Gibson, we're just end users! I understand wanting to buy new and not used, but it's an argument that is invalid in this case. A non-reissue 325 would be everything the market has been complaining about! Hard to restring R-tailpiece, hi-gain pickups. As much as I would love Gibson to make an SG with my name written on it, I know I'll be the only customer, and THEY know there's no market. There's almost no market for a non-Lennon 325. Tommy wrote:Why can't we do that today? Why must a 325 be an exorbitant purchase of some reproduction?ġ. Intermediate Member Posts: 650 Joined: Mon 8:49 am I have a fistful of money saved, I search for that little guy.and they don't even sell them, just sell these crazy "vintage" or "C Series" (whatever that is) ones. Why can't we do that today? Why must a 325 be an exorbitant purchase of some reproduction? I said I am not a Lennon in a Beatles tribute band. Did the guy in The Romantics or John Fogerty buy a "Vintage" 325. Did Lennon buy a "Vintage" 325? No, he bought a 325.
I didn't have to go to the "Vintage Series" or "C Series" (whatever that is) in order to buy a make of Rickenbacker guitar. I just would like to spend my money on a standard basic 325.Īs I pointed out, I was able to purchase a standard 360/12. The fuss? I don't want a vintage-accurate reissue guitar. Collin wrote:they offer a perfectly good vintage-accurate reissue, priced at the normal rate for such a vintage reissue Rickenbacker.I don't see what the fuss is about.