more lefty rick speculation

[cangaroo]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/RICKENBACKER-40 ... 3cbb1667d1

[slybass3000]

Mine will be for sale for way less then that soon

[AzWhoFan]

and here I was thinking this was going to be another Ric-bashing thread

[Jeroen]

That's a lot of money! Sadly, this is what they go for. I bought mine (now sold) new in January 2009 for 1650 Pounds.
This one is a bit older, 1999. It's funny how specs of Rickenbackers vary randomly through the years. Neck profiles were changed, inlays, even wood. This one does have a proper lefty headstock but it still has reverse inlays. They're also not full-width, and the headstock doesn't have walnut wings like some more recent versions.

Good to hear Colin of Soundmeout is still (or back) in business, after a stroke hit him pretty hard.
Great store for Rickenbacker parts and tools.

[JOE UMAN]

This one does have a proper lefty headstock but it still has reverse inlays. They're also not full-width, and the headstock doesn't have walnut wings like some more recent versions.

You say that as if they were bad things. Most Rics made have many of those features only up until very recently.

[pjmuck]

I've never personally been offended by the righty headstock/faced plates on earlier lefty Ricks (Hey, if it worked for Sir Paul, it works for me), but I fully understand why it does annoy people. I hate companies that do half-ass retooling for lefties, never fully committing to the process, and Rick is a prime offender. I've heard the whole argument that they're just a small operation and can't afford to make lefty-specific components since the market share's so small, yadda, yadda, yadda, but as a consumer if I'm paying upwards of $2500 for an instrument I don't see why I can't have a simple plastic name plate that reads the correct way or a properly oriented bridge/tailpiece for my guitar. They slap a righty "R" tailpiece on their guitars (a piece of crap to begin with that's notorious for cracking), which can't even be intonated properly! Completely Inexcusable.

[Agent00Soul]

Never in the field of lefty history was so much complained over by so many to so few.

Props to WC!

[Carmine]

Never in the field of lefty history was so much complained over by so many to so few.

Props to WC!

Rick-diculous, isn't it?

[Retag]

I also do not mind the righty headstock/faced plates, but what annoys me about Rickenbacker are the electronics.

I simply cannot comprehend how a manufacturer of guitars and basses would think it is perfectly acceptable to wire standard (logarithmic) pots are "lefties" (counter-clockwise rotation for an increase). They must have the intelligence to realize that pots do not function properly when wired in this manner.

I think it is silly for manufacturers to awesome that us lefties would like to turn a knob the reverse. I have no issues turning *any* volume knob clockwise, whether it is my stereo or a left-handed instrument. But if they want to make this assumption, at least provide lefty pots.

How many Rick owners here have rewired their instrument?

I've never personally been offended by the righty headstock/faced plates on earlier lefty Ricks (Hey, if it worked for Sir Paul, it works for me), but I fully understand why it does annoy people. I hate companies that do half-ass retooling for lefties, never fully committing to the process, and Rick is a prime offender. I've heard the whole argument that they're just a small operation and can't afford to make lefty-specific components since the market share's so small, yadda, yadda, yadda, but as a consumer if I'm paying upwards of $2500 for an instrument I don't see why I can't have a simple plastic name plate that reads the correct way or a properly oriented bridge/tailpiece for my guitar. They slap a righty "R" tailpiece on their guitars (a piece of crap to begin with that's notorious for cracking), which can't even be intonated properly! Completely Inexcusable.