This is a semi-hollow body with a 1ВЅВ” thick body and two pickups. I use it only in combination with the bridge pickup. The only thing I donВ’t like on this guitar is the neck pickup, because itВ’s a bit muddy. Lots of people on the concerts of my band ask about this guitar and which brand it is, because itВ’s absolutely different from Stratocaster- or Les Paul-styling. The styling is one of the best stylings IВ’ve ever seen. The guitar has a tone and a volume control for each pickup and a three-way toggle-switch (neck PU only, both or bridge PU only), completed by a fifth knob which could be discribed as a master tone control. The tone is very 60В’s like, with nice trebles and a ringing sustain, all that makes that so called В“Rickenbacker jangleВ”. The fingerboard is slightly thinner than a Fender StratВ’s, but itВ’s the best for playing rhyhtm-guitar, very low action and a fast neck with a very nice carve. I am using it in my band as a rhythm-player, but it has also a nice and warm distortion with a good tube amp. I asked my grandma for some money and then on my 16th birthday on 1st of september this beauty was mine.ДЄs far as IВ’m thinking, the music of the 60В’s is the best ever made, this guitar the best I could have buyed. I was told by my dealer, he had a RIC 330 in red with black hardware in the storage in his other shop for 2900 DM (about 1450$ then).

I found one who would have sold one used, but after a while he didnВ’t answer to my mails anymore.

but they told me, RIC would never allow to sell guitars from USA to Germany. I serched the internet (in between, I was informed that there wasnВ’t a RIC distributor in germany anymore) and asked serveral US dealers about shipping charges, etc.

At Musik Renz (my favorite musical instruments dealer) I played a german RIC look-a-like and was very pleased with the fretboard. I went to serveral of my local dealers and asked if they had RICs. 2000$), the dream of a Rickenbacker went up in smoke. I first looked for a 325 (the famous short-scale, John Lennon played), but when I heard about the price (ca. I noticed, theyВ’d played lots of Rickenbackers and I was very pleased about the body-styling. In summer 2001, I got the idea to buy a new guitar, because I was bored of my very cheap Yamaha Strat-wannabe, so I looked around to find out, which guitars the Beatles played (my favorite group).

New rickenbacker 330