Rickenbacker 330/6

My rickenbacker 330 is a really cool atumn glow color. I think the guitar is an 88, as I bought it used. The guitar came in great shape,and the previous owner took great care of the guitar. The rick has 24 frets and individual tone and volume controls for the two pickups. The guitar neck has dot inlays and chrome hardware. The cool thing about ricks is the little blend control that can do a lot for the sound of a rickenbacker. This is guitar has a a lot of useful features .

ok first off, the big complaint about ricks is that you cannot play lead on them. I have to agree to this some what. Stay away from this guitar if van halen and fast guitar runs are your deal. This guitar is a great rythmn guitar, a great live guitar, very versatile and I can play lead on the rick well. I like a variety of music , but I go for stuff like oasis, U2, the cure, jimi hendrix, a great deal of differnt music. I play through a fender hot rod deluxe, and use various boss pedals, a vox wah, and an ibanez tube screamer.i Can pretty much do whatever I want to with this guitar.The rick is suprisingly thick through a metal zone ( watch the feedback on the neck pickup!)Using reverb,you are in clear chordal heaven, kicking in a tube screamer, gives a great rock over drive. I like this guitar because it is a lot thicker that a fender, yet not as chunky as a gibson with humbuckers. It is a great guitar if you want a an alternative to fenders and gibsons.

My finish is a nice sunburst as it fades from red into an almost briwn color. I have seen the edge of U2 with my same guitar. Every aspect of my guitar is great. I like to use 10's on my guitar and they feel really nice, the neck is nice and smooth . The string spacing and the neck width might be a little to small for some players.The guitar feels great for me though.

I have played a couple gigs with this guitar. It is light so you can stand up for hours palying this rickenbacker. I have had no problems with this guitar. Sometimes it goes out of tune, but I think this common with most guitars anyway.Most people I talk to say that Rickenbackers are the best crafted and built guitars on the market today. The craftsmenship is superb.

i bought it used, so there was no warranty, had no problems either

I have been playing for 5 years now, and I am really happy with this guitar. It is a great rock guitar, and is very versatile. I think you should give it try. If it was stolen I would buy it again. Rickenbacker doesn't make this autumn glow anymore,whcih is a real shame.I have a 62 vintage ressiue strat, and a les paul standard. When I go out and play i choose the rick. I like the statemnet it makes. I am not one of the dime a dozen players who have strats and act like they are the great stevie ray vaughn. The rick is awesome, I wish the neck was a little bigger, but that's ok. Also sometimes I have to pull out the les paul when I want to play lynard skynard's freebird or any other fast guitar song. This guitar is highly recommended

I purchased my Rickenbacker 330/6 in March of 1998 being made in 1997. It came with a custom SKB, Rickenbacker cloth, 3 keys, and official Rickenbacker adjusting tools. It's considered a thinline hollowbody with a beautifully glossy finish called fireglo which fades from dark red around the sides to a lighter red in the center and is made out of maple with a thin rosewood neck. It has a bass and treble pickups which are high-gain. It has Shaller tuning heads and while at first I had to tune it every couple days, I now only need to tune it about once in every two weeks. It has a tailpiece and the by the straplock shaped like an "R" and all the components (including this) are chrome. Has 24 frets and is handmade in America.

It has quite an amazing array of sounds ranging from a bright Beatles sound to a to a dark bassy sound that can get so bassy that a chord will sound like a note on a bass. My musical style is mostly Rock. My favorite things to play are the Beatles and Led Zeppelin. I use a Mesa/Boogie with it's clean and distorted channels and am planning to get a WAH WAH pedal. This guitar is so amazing it can even sound like a acoustic guitar. I really don't have any dislikes but I do love the tonal ranges that this guitar can create. It is noisy but in a good way. It would also sound great for blues players having a strong bass pickup. Awesome if you like to play the early Beatles songs.

I find the action on this guitar wonderful. It is so light and dreamy that I can now play ten times better than with my old Yamaha 112M. The finsh on this guitar is flawless. I fell in love with this guitar the first time I played. The finsh and feel of this guitar are much better than that of a Les Paul Standard which was what I was originally going to purchase. The pickups never seem to pickup any annoying sounds. The only thing I ever needed done to it was it needed an intonation after a friend tuned it off to play "Across the Universe."

I believe this guitar could withstand anything and I can tell, after you've had it for a few weeks, the need for tuning is minimal. The hardware on this guitar excelent. My only complaint is that it is hard to string but with all the ups, what's one little down. Nothing is perfect, but my Rickenbacker 330 gets pretty close to perfection and is more than any guitarist can ask for. I don't see a need for a backup because it's about as dependable as they come (I also couldn't afford it). Th e finish seems extremely strong and dependable.

Warranty: 5 yrs. Customer service: wonderful; even if I e-mail them, I still get a responce within no longer than a 2 days.

I have been playing for 3 years. I wish I would have got made the upgrade to a vintage case because I prefer the vintage look over the modern (they both unique in a good way.) I compared it to the Gibson Les Paul Standard and Classic, and a Fender Custom Shop 1960's Telecaster. If my RIC got stolen I would definitely buy a new one. I love the tonal versatility but extremely dislike changing strings on it because it is awfully hard to do and I have broke a few strings doing so.