Rickenbacker style body

[Name]

It would be cool if Warmoth offered Rickenbacker bass style bodies. It's my favorite body shape for bass.

 

[mayfly]

Yea.  I remember when I saw an add for a warmoth Ric style body in Guitar Player.  It took me about 2 minutes between seeing the add and picking up the phone to order it - and Ric's lawyers had already done a number on poor old Warmoth.  :sad:

 

[Zhaezzy]

It would be nice to make them for guitar too. Just a sort of homage to them does not have to be exact but a comfy sort of traditional body style that is not Fender. My favorite off the shelf guitar was a Rickenbacker 620. Back in the 70's they made some that were shaped like the bass bodies I forget the model number.

 

[amigarobbo]

481?

 

[AirCap]

Used to have one of those 481 Ricks way back in the late 70's..... It was cool, but it was traded for a Jazz Bass, I think.

 

[vetteman]

Of course Warmoth does offer a routed/semi-routed body blank so you could make your own.

 

[Axkoa]

481?

Fanned frets before it was cool?

 

[Logrinn]

More like they're slanted. I tried one a long time ago and remember I thought it didn't feel as strange as I thought it would.

 

[AirCap]

More like they're slanted. I tried one a long time ago and remember I thought it didn't feel as strange as I thought it would.

Didn't take but a minute or two for me to get past the slanted feel of the frets. I liked it. Also - those pickups were some hot stuff - had a great sound with the Marshall cranked. If I could find some, I'd use them in a Les Paul or the like.

 

[Nando Vallart]

Rickenbacker has thr MOST agressive policy of people using their designs and parts...
Not going to happen, I am sure

 

[rockandroller]

Whats really required here is this:

offer "R360" body edge radius for both the mooncaster bass and mooncaster guitar.

LET US LOSE THE BINDING, PLEASE!!!  Need the option of a nice 1/2" ( or larger) body edge radius for COMFORT...

 

[Cagey]

The construction of the Mooncaster is such that it really needs the binding to hide the top seam. The Ricky's 360 tops are nice, but you'll notice that with rare exception, they all have opaque or "burst" finishes that terminate in an opaque so the edges are hidden. Warmoth offers a lot of exotic woods for construction that you have to be able to see to appreciate, so they probably made the decision to bind so as to allow for those wood's exposure as well as any of their many finish styles to be applied. Rickenbacker can afford to offer maybe 6 or 8 different finishes before they have to draw the line for production reasons, but Warmoth is all about custom choice and binding widens those choices dramatically.

What you could do if you're really not a fan of binding is order one with a fairly pedestrian wood and specify cream binding, then finish it yourself over the binding so it would be invisible. Unfortunately, that doesn't get you the roundover you're looking for. Something else to consider is that even though it looks like the bigger body many semi-acoustics have, it's not. It's a copy of a Fender Starcaster, which is a smaller guitar. It's actually a pretty comfy guitar in real life.

 

[amigarobbo]

There ain't no edges on the front of 360, it's all carved out of one or two bits of wood then back is sealed with another bit of wood with binding to hide the join.

A Rickenbacker non-opaque edged yesterday:

It does mean the nice looking curvey bit is at the front with the bound hard edge at the back, as I've spent less that 2 minutes on a 360 I can't remember if this was 'a guitar digging into my delicate body' problem.

 

[swarfrat]

I'm thinking it's not gonna happen:

 

[Cagey]

Wow. No wonder those guitars are so pricey. For one thing, that chunk of wood is eating up a lotta pricey CNC machine time, and for another, I wonder what their yield is like? Seems like with that much fancy cutting both inside and out, there's a lotta opportunity to make a piece of scrap. If it happens toward the end of the run, that's a big loss the successful bodies have to pay for.

 

[Fat Pete]

Interesting that the same guy, Roger Rossmeisl, as well designing the classic Ricks, also did stuff for Fender, including the Coronado and the Tele Thinline (which was also routed from the back - just with a little less fancy cutting).

Thanks amigarobbo for the diversion to wikipedia!

 

[amigarobbo]

I knew he was the German behind the 'German Carve',

But I never knew he worked for Fender, everyday a school day init?

 

[Fat Pete]

I prefer this as an example of the German Carve:

 

[bagman67]

I prefer this as an example of the German Carve:

You would, Pete.  You have non-standard tastes.  For which I salute you.

 

[ghotiphry]

I knew he was the German behind the 'German Carve',

But I never knew he worked for Fender, everyday a school day init?