RickenJagger 4000

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Re: RickenJagger 4000

Post by F15hface » Mon Feb 08, 2016 11:10 am

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Re: RickenJagger 4000

Post by Deed_Poll » Mon Feb 08, 2016 11:58 am

Wow, thanks for the kind words guys!

I thought I'd just post a quick pic of the work in progress bolt on 330 / 360 type model. Less of a hybrid, but still slightly offset.

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Re: RickenJagger 4000

Post by CorporateDisguise » Mon Feb 08, 2016 12:08 pm

Gorgeous! I think this model would look great as a Bass VI.

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Re: RickenJagger 4000

Post by Con-Tiki! » Mon Feb 08, 2016 1:13 pm

Deed_Poll wrote:Wow, thanks for the kind words guys!

I thought I'd just post a quick pic of the work in progress bolt on 330 / 360 type model. Less of a hybrid, but still slightly offset.

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this one might get the Ric-police after you...
first one is pretty lovely, I think the waist could be a little more dramatic, and the upper horn a little more 330. In my head, that looks cool anyway.
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Re: RickenJagger 4000

Post by InLimbo » Mon Feb 08, 2016 2:30 pm

Man. I'd love to see this with a more traditional Ric pick guard, lose the rhythm circuit, a WRHB in the neck, and a Hi-Gain in the bridge.

If you did that with a mastery trem, bound neck, and bound body, it'd basically be my dream guitar. Seriously.

The first design, that is.

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Re: RickenJagger 4000

Post by jrowan » Mon Feb 08, 2016 3:17 pm

I'm having an inappropriate physical reaction to this thread.

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Re: RickenJagger 4000

Post by Deed_Poll » Mon Feb 08, 2016 7:46 pm

InLimbo,
I was thinking about a more traditional guard too.

Here it is

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In theory, these would be super easy to make on the machine as it's all top routed with no contours and only a simple roundover on the back the same all the way around - not like a JM where you have to blend the larger radius into a smaller radius around the neck plate. The binding channel will take about 2 seconds.

My luthier's coming over in a few days to teach me how to do binding! :)
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Re: RickenJagger 4000

Post by mackerelmint » Mon Feb 08, 2016 7:58 pm

Oh! There it is.

That's the one I want.

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Re: RickenJagger 4000

Post by Deed_Poll » Mon Feb 08, 2016 8:01 pm

There is something about white Ricks with the white / black binding... This is how I'd have mine too. I'll probably do the prototype like this. ;)
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Re: RickenJagger 4000

Post by Deed_Poll » Mon Feb 08, 2016 8:10 pm

Here are more angles of the 628... I could probably offset it a little more, but it gets kinda dumpy looking. Definitely still a work in progress.

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Mackerel Mint, if I do make the prototype that way I'll give you first refusal after photographs!

If I do get the Rickenbacker police on me, maybe I could do one in the shape of a Gibson 335 only a flat top with the teardrop pickguard and tailpiece contour like this one... I definitely think there's mileage in it. Nobody's done that before as far as I know, maybe with good reason.
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Re: RickenJagger 4000

Post by mackerelmint » Mon Feb 08, 2016 8:27 pm

Damn the ricky police! They can't tell you what to do. :P

Yeah, if you do end up making the prototype like that... I'm deeeefinitely interested if you're going to be selling it on.

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Sorry, but it's really just the sexiest guitar design I've seen since I dunno when. I know I'm not being dignified, but... :whistle:
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Re: RickenJagger 4000

Post by Grey » Mon Feb 08, 2016 8:46 pm

The first one is great but that one really just looks like a standard 360 with some unnecessary changes, imo. The trem is cool but would it even work on a semi-hollowbody guitar with that ramp?

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Re: RickenJagger 4000

Post by Deed_Poll » Mon Feb 08, 2016 9:06 pm

Haha! Nobody ever got anywhere by being dignified! :D

Grey, I know what you mean. I'm kinda torn on the issue - I actually reworked an existing design that was a bit more unusual, based more on the 360 with the rounded edges, but I think I must have brought it too far the other way doing this one. It's difficult because I think a lot of people would like a more traditional Ricky style guitar to use for projects but at the same time it needs a little flavour and uniqueness from somewhere.

As far as the trek goes, thinking about it, even if it was solid there's no way the body is deep enough to take it. The trem route is 36mm, I think I did the whole body 35mm at its thickest! I don't know what's the shallowest you could get away with on the offset vibrato but with moving parts it's best not to take any chances.

It would almost be cool to have it routed from the back so you can see it, like a Strat without the backplate on. I've thought about this on other guitars, if you were careful to use countersunk washers and routed the body out really carefully you wouldn't need a plate on top at all.
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Re: RickenJagger 4000

Post by kdanie » Mon Feb 08, 2016 9:13 pm

I'm diggin' the 628 and I still love the neck with the aluminum bars instead of dots or blocks. I'm not normally a fat Ric fan but I HAVE been looking at the Ric drawing in my "inspiration" folder lately, mostly thinking about how to cut the ramp.

If somebody want's a straight up Ric, just go buy one from them...

For the trem maybe a modified Mustang style (new plate/no bridge attached), that takes up less room in the body.

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Re: RickenJagger 4000

Post by Homeless Blueless » Mon Feb 08, 2016 9:20 pm

Deed Poll, your RickenJagger design is superb.

The only thing that I'm not sure about is the toggle switch location, people like me with big flailing hands grabbing for the trem arm might be accidentally hitting the switch all the time.

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