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Bring Us Your Rickenbacker Bass For Lemmy' izing
We Will Reconstruct Or Retop The Body & Headstock Wings From Walnut
We Have Detailed Pictures Of The Carving So We Can Recreate It Perfectly
We Will Replace All The Pickups & Bridge & Tuners
We Will Replace The Fingerboard, Install Star Inlays & do a Full Set Up
Average Price In 2010 $4,000.00
Legally We Cannot Construct One Of These From Scratch
So You Must Start With An Original Rickenbacker
Custom Blueburst Refinish $1.000.00
You won't be able to tell it's an aftermarket
Custom Paint Jobs
You won't be able to tell it's an aftermarket
Modified Rickenbacker
This Rickenbacker model is unlike any of the other
Beatle sounding Rickenbackers.
In fact it sounds and plays great right off the shelf.
This guitar is the only guitar under $1,000.00 I know
of made from Solid Walnut
with a 24 fret double octave neck through body design.
The Stock pickups are also really good. It is
available in Chrome or Gold hardware versions.
Modifications Performed
1.
Heel totally
removed
2. Neck shaved thin
3. Blackback Pickups installed (Step
routed into body)
4. Linear String Rotation 40 to 1
precision locking tuners
5. 1500 G neck modification
 This
guitar gets my vote as one of the best guitars on the market for the price. It
has all the right components. The price is
extremely low. No other low cost American made guitar has a neck through
body with 24 frets and a solid Walnut body. The stock pickups are great.
The "Black Backs" TM in the customized version are better
but the stock pickups are better than most other stock pickups that come
installed in most PRS & Gibson guitars.
The modifications on
the guitar as performed above by Guitar Tech Jim Van Campen are all
excellent improvements. In my opinion the only one that is absolutely necessary
is the slimming of the neck. The only real fault that the guitar has is the neck
is too big. As long as you need to slim the neck you might as well remove
the stupid looking heel from hell, It protrudes way too far from the body.
(see the picture above)
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Left "Van Campen" Modified Rickenbacker Guitar
The stock model is on the right, see the large heel
Not as bad as the PRS heel
 
Left the Van Campen Modified Rickenbacker Guitar
The stock model is on the right
March 04 1996
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