I was just going to say bc my mother had a twelve model like this from fuji but in black as well as a 4003 bass in lime green to golden honey burst. The bass was better than the original it was copying.
Wiring Suggestion - The green capacitor is supposed to have 2 ends, one end broke off. It looks like you soldered the lead to the same end and eliminated the capacitor from the circuit. Please get a replacement capacitor and solder it like: End#1 --|(-- End#2. That may improve the sound of the circuit and will at least implement the circuit s intended
What a great find. It would cost more than $20 for a piece of rosewood, just to make the fretboard. I'm sure it's worth quite a bit more now. Nice work!👍😎🎸🎶
Reminds me of about 5 years ago I found a 11964 Harmony Bobkat with some really sweet D'earmond gold foils for $20. The next was warped but I steamed off the fretboard and reglued it while clamped to a flat table. The frets and nut could be replaced but it is quite playable and sounds great so I left it alone.
As long as you end up with every fret level and true, it doesn't matter how you achieve this. It's best to start by making sure every fret is well seated. Press them back in, with a bit of glue if necessary. Then I always tape off and mark with a sharpie, but I would rarely attack the frets with a file, as I only want to remove the bare minimum material. My latest success has been to cut a 1" wide strip of 1000-grit wet & dry paper, then wrap one end around a 9" aluminium spirit level, pull the other end tight and tape that. No need for double-sided tape, so the paper comes off easily afterwards.
I bought a red Harmony Rocket, single cut away, hollow body guitar from an antique store in New Jersey and it too had micro-phonic pickups. But I loved it. I'd get this awesome feedback, similar to one of the White Stripes first albums. It felt like the top of the guitar body was hovering up and down. I loved it. I only paid $60-$75, can't remember exactly the price. I like the black and white checker style binding on the Pyramid guitar. Great find. I'd put a Rickenbacker truss rod cover on it just for fun! Not to try to sell it as a Rickenbacker.
That's a cool guitar, my friend. I have a quick story for your edification. There was once an Epiphone les paul that needed some fret leveling. The tech neglected to tape over the pickups before leveling. Naturally, all those nickel/steel particles migrated to the pickups and made them unusable. Had the tech been able to remove the neck to do the fret work, he prolly would have and damage to the pickups might not have happened.
@@ant1sokolow People who don't know any better (yes, me, a long time ago) have been known to polish frets with 0000 wire wool, which _does_ create particles, and _is_ magnetic...
The way that you have rewired that capacitor bypasses it so it is no longer being used. Caps have two legs on them, one in and one out, the one that broke off of that skinny bare wire should've been reconnected. Instead though you connected the wire to the cap leg whereas you should've connected the cap leg back to the cap. Have a look at it again and you'll see a little stump on the corner of the cap that is pokey wire. That is where you should reconnect that skinny wire. Sorry, tough one to explain.
I like it. My electric is very similar to this (set neck and no trem). Ive not seen very many like it on social media and none in the wild. Thats a really cool find.
I own 2 very similar instruments, 6 string like this in Fireglow (mine's a little more red), and a project Sunburst 12 string that needs a bridge and tailpiece but is quite clean. My luthier said the tops are Spruce. Bolt on, bound necks but block inlay instead of shark fin. Super tiny frets. Guitars from Aria/Ideal/Encore (my 2) and possibly this "Pyramid" axe...were likely ALL produced by Fujijen at one time or another, as the factory stamped "Japan" or "Made in Japan" on the neckplate of these 3 brands pretty consistently. Mine also reads "Steel Reinforced Neck". Go figure... In my estimation, since the Ric 360 did not come out until 1965, the closest I can date these guitars according to pretty reliable guitar-knowledge people (who were not just alive then but playing) is roughly 1965-1975. In the 70s it seems like Japanese guitar manufacturers really focused on clones of Fender & Gibson models and by this time most of the 60s super-groups associated with Ric guitars had broken up and/or moved on to other gear (Beatles, Who, Birds, Buffalo Springfield etc.) so the allure of these instruments was diminished as I'm sure also were the sales of them, being that they were never inexpensive to begin with. These guitars also all used similar tuners, vol/tone pots and p'ups (yes, they're terrible & microphonic), but mine are like Hofner "Staple Head" type; weak humbuckers that read about 4.7-4.8 resistance. I can OD 'em, but straight up distortion...not so much. I dumped that crappy Bigsby and (plastic saddles!) bridge and put in a Winfield trapeze and a T.o.M. type bridge on the wood base. Improved sound 1000%, but the Gibson spaced bridge puts the strings a little close to the edge of the fretboard so at some point I'll re-do the bridge saddles & new nut to better specs. It's playable, but still a project. These guitars get LOTS of attention when you pull them out at the music store or the gig. The vibe they exude is undeniable, but Ric guitars (not basses), get ignored by most players unless they're REALLY into them, or the artists that use them.
My guess is the routs in the headstock are reminiscent of the Rickenbacker 12 string guitars which are routed all the way through to accommodate the extra six tuners.
I live in The Netherlands. I once bought a Dutch semi acoustic Egmond guitar on Queen's day (our former Queen Beatrix' birthday on April 30) for 7,50 Dutch guilders, at that time the equivalent of about $ 3,-. It was in such good condition that the costs restoring it amounted to 50 Dutch guilders, and that included strings😊
Better vood quality than 99% of the Mass produced planks of today. I had a "Shaftesbury" 12 string in black, it was my 1st playable electric guitar. If any-one sees a big sticker of "Robin" frim Batman series that was my baby.
Pickups were styled similary to DeArmond "Toaster-top" pickups ---- i'd try wax-potting them to tame the noise. A set of actual DeArmonds on that guitar would be sonically awesome.
Cool $150=$200 guitar...let alone $20. Get a new cap though, you just put the two wires in series! Nice vid. Those big ones are oil caps, but in plastic instead of paper. Probably 1950's. You see them in late 50's and early 60's tube amps, and they're usually leaking DC. However, in a guitar cavity, theres no heat, (and little to no voltage) so yours are probably just fine. Thanks for the effort and cool video!
I have a very similar guitar under the Ideal brand. The difference with mine is that it’s bound on top and back and it has dot inlays. Same pickups. Very cool low-output single coils which sound a bit like the classic “gold foil” pickups. I replaced the foam under the pickups with something stiffer and non disintegrating and at one 😊point stuffed softer foam inside, thinking it would help with the feedback (not realizing it was the microphonic pickups). A very cool cheap 60s guitar.
I have two other Ricky copies from that era as well, one being just like the Ideal except not bound on top, but not as round as yours. Mine is more like a 330 to your 360 style. The other one is a slightly different body, more like a 360, but a little more meat on the top bout. That one has slots in the headstock for a 12 string, but this is only 6.
I recently got a made in Japan ES 335 copy with the Gibson headstock. Bolt on neck, says “B B” on a little plate pinned to the headstock. Can’t find another like it. $20. Great video
The green cap was broke off at the leg so I'd replace that! Wax pot the pickups to dull down the micdophonic sound.. cheap enough to throw some full size alpha pots in it and I'd replace the switch also as they are normally garbage! Great find tho for the price!
I've got to go to more garage sales. I have become jaded by them. Because for so long the ones that I go to are a bunch of kids clothes and crap I wouldn't even take to Goodwill.
I don't think this guitar is from the 60' but more probably from the 70'.(up to early 80')when FujjiGen start to build OEM guitars for various importer brands in USA and Europe. In the 60' they were more into the domestic market. Models were less direct(less accurate ?) copies of US big brand ones.. A characteristic of FujiGen guitar of that era is the good quality of luthery and very poor pickups and electronics. The one shown is really nice but probably almost unplayable with that much microphony. . Perhaps wax potting can help, but the pups seems to be almost totally enclosed and i'm not shure it would work. Also the attachment to the body may be improved... Some more work...
Definitely ‘60s, those pickups were one of the earlier types Fujigen used on Ric copies. I have almost the exact model with a slightly different tailpiece and cheap single coils with humbucker covers branded “Apollo” that is from ‘66-‘68. You also see this model being branded Greco out of the Fujigen factory starting around ‘68, with yet another different trem system. My guess is ‘65 or ‘66.
I wonder if the pickups could be disassembled and potted in paraffin wax? I sounded like something was physically loose inside the one you were flipping aroound.
It is a nice looking guitar and the price was right. But you HAVE to get different pickups, or solve the microphonic problem if you expect to sell it or use it. No one will put up with that problem nowadays.
yeah, it's Brazilian. Indian wouldn't have the dark stripes...... and Fujigen...... wow...... (I would like to see what type of nut slot files you used) awesome video...
I once owned a guitar identical to that guitar. It was an Aria Diamond. It had fake diamond set it the headstock. It was passed down to a younger sibling or something and it disappeared.
I'm more than a little in the dark about guitar wiring, but that one loose cap put me in mind of a treble bleed. Especially since the tone controls both seem to have their own (oil) caps. How off-base am I?
I once found an acoustic electric guitar in the trash, I took it home. It is a "Morris". Not sure if anyone knows what that is. It plays perfectly fine though. I still have it.
That shows, there is nothing wrong with mini pots. Look how long they have last for example in this Videos old guitar. It really shows, reality says different vs the market adds and myths making. Well wishings and all the best furthermore.
A beautiful guitar. Lovely color. Good they put brand on top.🎉Not fooling anyone. Is it for sale? How much if it is? Beautiful shape for its age. Maybe buzzing frets, person gave up playing it instead of fixing it. A good deal. I bought a Lyle Plectrum Banjo. Someone changed the head. Strings too low and buzzing. Quit playing it. 1970's like new. Luthier just cut neck lower so strongs were higher. No string buzz. Plays perfectly.
Is that Chickenbacker for sale? If so, what price? Also, I saw that Canadian Inukshuk Flying V Guitar. Gorgeous Looking and Sounding and Wel Built. I couldn't get to his site. Do you have a way to contact him? Those are your 1st 2 guitars I looked at. Are you Canadian? From where? Funny. Some guy said that Inukshuk Guitarsand some guy in Alberta should get together. They don't realize the distance apart they are. LOL. Maybe not from Canada. Happy Canada Day, a bit late. I'm impressed with your site and your honesty.
Not sure if I'm going to sell it yet. Yes Canadian, I'm from Alberta near Edmonton. Here is James (creator of Inukshuk guitars) e-mail: jaymzmcneice@hotmail.com Cheers
, I'm American but spent most of 1992 in the Calgary area. The Edmonton Folk Festival was by far the best music festival I ever attended, they had some great players that year (Ry Cooder and David Lindley, Martin Simpson, and others). Rock, blues, bluegrass, Irish music, African bands; slide guitar and fiddle workshops, jam sessions and collaborations....... something for everyone. This may have been before your time and I don't know what the festival lineups are like now, but boy that was one heck of a 3-day musical weekend !
It's steel wool particles that you need to worry about, which I do not use for fretwork. It's usually not an issue because I'm quite careful, but if any fret filings accumulate on the covered pickup (again not as big an issue on covered pickups) is takes a second to remove. If it was uncovered pickups, I would take extra precautions
Rickenbacher's have their name on the headstock ON the plastic plate. They don't have an aluminum plate that says "Pyramid" on them. This is like a Rogue issue guitar that was a Rickenbacher copy - but before Rogue came around as a brand name. See if the pickups and wiring are good and if it tunes alright. I wouldn't expect to sell it for more than $450.
It's very easy to remove afterwards if any fret filings accumulate on the pickup. I'm careful so it's usually a non-issue or just takes a second to clean up. Typically it's steel wool particles that you need to worry about which I do not use for fretwork.
The head stock routs are to allow installing 6 more tuners to make it a 12 string. That is how Rickenbacker does it.
Correct.... but only if RIC is making a 12 do the routes happen.
I was just going to say bc my mother had a twelve model like this from fuji but in black as well as a 4003 bass in lime green to golden honey burst. The bass was better than the original it was copying.
For 20, it would be a great deal even for a wall ornament. They guitar is beautiful.
Great buy! You could wax pot the pickups that might help and while doing so fix the buzz at the eighteenth fret.
Wiring Suggestion - The green capacitor is supposed to have 2 ends, one end broke off. It looks like you soldered the lead to the same end and eliminated the capacitor from the circuit. Please get a replacement capacitor and solder it like: End#1 --|(-- End#2. That may improve the sound of the circuit and will at least implement the circuit s intended
I did realize that and threw in another cap! Thanks!
What a great find. It would cost more than $20 for a piece of rosewood, just to make the fretboard. I'm sure it's worth quite a bit more now. Nice work!👍😎🎸🎶
Reminds me of about 5 years ago I found a 11964 Harmony Bobkat with some really sweet D'earmond gold foils for $20. The next was warped but I steamed off the fretboard and reglued it while clamped to a flat table. The frets and nut could be replaced but it is quite playable and sounds great so I left it alone.
When levelling the frets I was taught to take full sweeps of the fretboard with a levelling beam so that they are all filed equally
I use a fret rocker after I level to ensure all frets are level. I have a leveling beam also, but I don't find I use it very much
As long as you end up with every fret level and true, it doesn't matter how you achieve this. It's best to start by making sure every fret is well seated. Press them back in, with a bit of glue if necessary. Then I always tape off and mark with a sharpie, but I would rarely attack the frets with a file, as I only want to remove the bare minimum material. My latest success has been to cut a 1" wide strip of 1000-grit wet & dry paper, then wrap one end around a 9" aluminium spirit level, pull the other end tight and tape that. No need for double-sided tape, so the paper comes off easily afterwards.
ONE OF THE BEST GARAGE FINDS EVER...CONGRATS MAN....BOUGHT FOR JUST 20 BUCKS, NOW GOES FOR 2,000....
2000 bucks? Wanna share WHT you're smoking 🚬
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Great stuff, but that video game music after 10 seconds is annoying.
Fair enough... Lol
@@boechlerguitarsandrepair Thanks man for the reply. Just found your channel, looking forward to seeing your work!
Yes...that video game noise has gotta GO...PLEASE..
I bought a red Harmony Rocket, single cut away, hollow body guitar from an antique store in New Jersey and it too had micro-phonic pickups. But I loved it. I'd get this awesome feedback, similar to one of the White Stripes first albums. It felt like the top of the guitar body was hovering up and down. I loved it. I only paid $60-$75, can't remember exactly the price.
I like the black and white checker style binding on the Pyramid guitar. Great find. I'd put a Rickenbacker truss rod cover on it just for fun! Not to try to sell it as a Rickenbacker.
That's actually a really pretty guitar. I like it!
Metal filing from the frets to the pickup a no no. Tape off the pickup.
Forgot that step this time! Fortunately no issues. Thanks for the reminder
Great find. Good work.
That's a cool guitar, my friend. I have a quick story for your edification. There was once an Epiphone les paul that needed some fret leveling. The tech neglected to tape over the pickups before leveling. Naturally, all those nickel/steel particles migrated to the pickups and made them unusable. Had the tech been able to remove the neck to do the fret work, he prolly would have and damage to the pickups might not have happened.
You read my mind
Old wives tale. The frets are non magnetic, and the file (which is) is way harder than frets and would not generale particle.
@@ant1sokolow People who don't know any better (yes, me, a long time ago) have been known to polish frets with 0000 wire wool, which _does_ create particles, and _is_ magnetic...
@@ParaBellum2024 Does that cause problems ?
@@ant1sokolow Yes, because any tiny pieces of steel that come close enough to the pickups will be attracted to them.
The way that you have rewired that capacitor bypasses it so it is no longer being used. Caps have two legs on them, one in and one out, the one that broke off of that skinny bare wire should've been reconnected. Instead though you connected the wire to the cap leg whereas you should've connected the cap leg back to the cap. Have a look at it again and you'll see a little stump on the corner of the cap that is pokey wire. That is where you should reconnect that skinny wire. Sorry, tough one to explain.
Done and done! Thanks
I saw that too. Nice spot!
Beautiful Rick copy.... I have a set neck Jay Turser JT-80 Rickenbacker 325 copy and absolutely love it!!! Keep rockin'. 👍🎸
I like it. My electric is very similar to this (set neck and no trem). Ive not seen very many like it on social media and none in the wild. Thats a really cool find.
Look into wax dipping to remove the microphonic quality of the P/Us
That's really cool. Id be tempted to change the pickups too.
I own 2 very similar instruments, 6 string like this in Fireglow (mine's a little more red), and a project Sunburst 12 string that needs a bridge and tailpiece but is quite clean. My luthier said the tops are Spruce. Bolt on, bound necks but block inlay instead of shark fin. Super tiny frets.
Guitars from Aria/Ideal/Encore (my 2) and possibly this "Pyramid" axe...were likely ALL produced by Fujijen at one time or another, as the factory stamped "Japan" or "Made in Japan" on the neckplate of these 3 brands pretty consistently. Mine also reads "Steel Reinforced Neck". Go figure...
In my estimation, since the Ric 360 did not come out until 1965, the closest I can date these guitars according to pretty reliable guitar-knowledge people (who were not just alive then but playing) is roughly 1965-1975. In the 70s it seems like Japanese guitar manufacturers really focused on clones of Fender & Gibson models and by this time most of the 60s super-groups associated with Ric guitars had broken up and/or moved on to other gear (Beatles, Who, Birds, Buffalo Springfield etc.) so the allure of these instruments was diminished as I'm sure also were the sales of them, being that they were never inexpensive to begin with.
These guitars also all used similar tuners, vol/tone pots and p'ups (yes, they're terrible & microphonic), but mine are like Hofner "Staple Head" type; weak humbuckers that read about 4.7-4.8 resistance. I can OD 'em, but straight up distortion...not so much.
I dumped that crappy Bigsby and (plastic saddles!) bridge and put in a Winfield trapeze and a T.o.M. type bridge on the wood base. Improved sound 1000%, but the Gibson spaced bridge puts the strings a little close to the edge of the fretboard so at some point I'll re-do the bridge saddles & new nut to better specs. It's playable, but still a project.
These guitars get LOTS of attention when you pull them out at the music store or the gig. The vibe they exude is undeniable, but Ric guitars (not basses), get ignored by most players unless they're REALLY into them, or the artists that use them.
My guess is the routs in the headstock are reminiscent of the Rickenbacker 12 string guitars which are routed all the way through to accommodate the extra six tuners.
I think you're right!
That was a great bargain!👍👍
Dip the pickups in a mini fryer at 130 degrees filled with paraffin wax until there are no more bubbles,clean them up and away you go !
Interesting! Maybe I'll try that!
Use a thermometer mate,I've seen a few melted lol!
It's a very cool guitar.
I live in The Netherlands. I once bought a Dutch semi acoustic Egmond guitar on Queen's day (our former Queen Beatrix' birthday on April 30) for 7,50 Dutch guilders, at that time the equivalent of about $ 3,-. It was in such good condition that the costs restoring it amounted to 50 Dutch guilders, and that included strings😊
Worth 20$ for sure. Gonna have to get some pickups for that thing.
Sweet find!
Frets need further levelling from 15th up. Definate string buzz up there and on first string. Great bargain find, but pups are disappoining.
Better vood quality than 99% of the Mass produced planks of today. I had a "Shaftesbury" 12 string in black, it was my 1st playable electric guitar. If any-one sees a big sticker of "Robin" frim Batman series that was my baby.
That is a very cool find!!
It's a nice find. Those old Bigsby knockoffs just never stay in tune.
Holy mac and cheese! U snagged a good one. 👍 thanks for posting.
Really nice job, and awesome clone.
Pickups were styled similary to DeArmond "Toaster-top" pickups ---- i'd try wax-potting them to tame the noise. A set of actual DeArmonds on that guitar would be sonically awesome.
Cool $150=$200 guitar...let alone $20. Get a new cap though, you just put the two wires in series! Nice vid. Those big ones are oil caps, but in plastic instead of paper. Probably 1950's. You see them in late 50's and early 60's tube amps, and they're usually leaking DC. However, in a guitar cavity, theres no heat, (and little to no voltage) so yours are probably just fine. Thanks for the effort and cool video!
I have a very similar guitar under the Ideal brand. The difference with mine is that it’s bound on top and back and it has dot inlays. Same pickups. Very cool low-output single coils which sound a bit like the classic “gold foil” pickups. I replaced the foam under the pickups with something stiffer and non disintegrating and at one 😊point stuffed softer foam inside, thinking it would help with the feedback (not realizing it was the microphonic pickups). A very cool cheap 60s guitar.
I have two other Ricky copies from that era as well, one being just like the Ideal except not bound on top, but not as round as yours. Mine is more like a 330 to your 360 style. The other one is a slightly different body, more like a 360, but a little more meat on the top bout. That one has slots in the headstock for a 12 string, but this is only 6.
Yeah that fretboard is gorgeous.
Nice job man.
I recently got a made in Japan ES 335 copy with the Gibson headstock. Bolt on neck, says “B B” on a little plate pinned to the headstock. Can’t find another like it. $20. Great video
its a beatiful japanese guitar...
Such a great find
them older Japanize guitars can vary wildly in quality. looks like you got a pretty good one
Fantastic find. Should tape the fret board before doing fret work.
I do tape on maple fretboards, on rosewood it's easy to clean up afterwards if there are any rub spot etc
I'm new to your CZcams Channel. Thanks for sharing 🎸🎶✌
Yr pickups would in fact be "Stereophonic" if it had the Rick-o-sound system and plugged in to two or more separate cabs.
Cool.God bless.
Four years ago I got a maher flying v..
For 20 dollars it was brand new with dust on it..
Now i have 12 guitars 😊
What a find! Would be fun to run it through the Mosaic 12-string pedal just to see what it sounds like.
The green cap was broke off at the leg so I'd replace that! Wax pot the pickups to dull down the micdophonic sound.. cheap enough to throw some full size alpha pots in it and I'd replace the switch also as they are normally garbage! Great find tho for the price!
I've got to go to more garage sales. I have become jaded by them. Because for so long the ones that I go to are a bunch of kids clothes and crap I wouldn't even take to Goodwill.
Good garage sales are few and far between, but every now and then you find a crazy one with amazing deals. Those are the ones that keep me coming back
Wowwww. Great find man.......
Turn around sell it for$500! Go out and get another one! Repeat! Good stuff!
cool find man!
I don't think this guitar is from the 60' but more probably from the 70'.(up to early 80')when FujjiGen start to build OEM guitars for various importer brands in USA and Europe. In the 60' they were more into the domestic market. Models were less direct(less accurate ?) copies of US big brand ones..
A characteristic of FujiGen guitar of that era is the good quality of luthery and very poor pickups and electronics.
The one shown is really nice but probably almost unplayable with that much microphony. . Perhaps wax potting can help, but the pups seems to be almost totally enclosed and i'm not shure it would work. Also the attachment to the body may be improved...
Some more work...
Definitely ‘60s, those pickups were one of the earlier types Fujigen used on Ric copies. I have almost the exact model with a slightly different tailpiece and cheap single coils with humbucker covers branded “Apollo” that is from ‘66-‘68. You also see this model being branded Greco out of the Fujigen factory starting around ‘68, with yet another different trem system. My guess is ‘65 or ‘66.
Good job it was only a $20 guitar. Commensurate fix up!
I wonder if the pickups could be disassembled and potted in paraffin wax? I sounded like something was physically loose inside the one you were flipping aroound.
What a find!
Nice find. 70’s Japanese fujigen made Ric clone. Don’t like the headstock though.
Nice score a chibson from china or Japan who cares 🎸😂. Trying to buy a double neck 12 & a 6 string 🎸👍 no luck yet 😂🎸 thankyou for sharing 👍
That’s a pretty good score. I would have paid more if I came across it. I can’t afford a Rick, that guitar is a sweetie.
It is a nice looking guitar and the price was right. But you HAVE to get different pickups, or solve the microphonic problem if you expect to sell it or use it. No one will put up with that problem nowadays.
For 20 bucks, that's a steal, even if you have to replace all the electronics (but I'm guessing you won't need to).
Lol look at that truss rod cover. It isn't even lined up with the nut. it is actually wider lol! I would totally rock that guitar.
yeah, it's Brazilian. Indian wouldn't have the dark stripes...... and Fujigen...... wow...... (I would like to see what type of nut slot files you used) awesome video...
www.philadelphialuthiertools.com/luthier-tools/files/guitar-nut-file-set-10-files/ these are the ones
Very cool
good guitar mate...
WE USED ONE OF THOSE ON OUR NEW ALBUM
Just a 'bravo' for showing the dub version of the electronics repair...
Worth $20, if it hangs on a wall. If it plays at all, bonus! If you can fix it up, winwinwin.
You could probably get some inexpensive goidfoil pickups to put in it fo not too much
Yeah! Rickenbacker.NOT Rickenbocker!😁
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Pot those pick-ups,or shield them! Other than that Great find !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Those routes are to mimic the Rick 12 string headstock.
Wow, 400V capacitors, those are never going to fry.
I once owned a guitar identical to that guitar. It was an Aria Diamond. It had fake diamond set it the headstock. It was passed down to a younger sibling or something and it disappeared.
I'm more than a little in the dark about guitar wiring, but that one loose cap put me in mind of a treble bleed. Especially since the tone controls both seem to have their own (oil) caps. How off-base am I?
60s, when FujiGen were perfecting their craft.
Sweet
I would leave 3 strings on it and play slide
I once found an acoustic electric guitar in the trash, I took it home. It is a "Morris". Not sure if anyone knows what that is. It plays perfectly fine though. I still have it.
Those are Japanese made acoustics that were made in the '70s, '80s, etc. They are nice guitars
I think you need to pot those pickups in wax to get rid of that whole microphonic thing.
replace pots and pickups too.
That shows, there is nothing wrong with mini pots. Look how long they have last for example in this Videos old guitar.
It really shows, reality says different vs the market adds and myths making.
Well wishings and all the best furthermore.
I am somehow always surprised how knockoff guitars often sound quite close to the guitars they emulate. Hell of a deal. I would have given $50, hehe.
Sweet 600$ profit.
A beautiful guitar. Lovely color. Good they put brand on top.🎉Not fooling anyone. Is it for sale? How much if it is? Beautiful shape for its age. Maybe buzzing frets, person gave up playing it instead of fixing it. A good deal.
I bought a Lyle Plectrum Banjo. Someone changed the head. Strings too low and buzzing. Quit playing it. 1970's like new. Luthier just cut neck lower so strongs were higher. No string buzz. Plays perfectly.
Is that Chickenbacker for sale? If so, what price? Also, I saw that Canadian Inukshuk Flying V Guitar. Gorgeous Looking and Sounding and Wel Built. I couldn't get to his site. Do you have a way to contact him? Those are your 1st 2 guitars I looked at. Are you Canadian? From where? Funny. Some guy said that Inukshuk Guitarsand some guy in Alberta should get together. They don't realize the distance apart they are. LOL. Maybe not from Canada. Happy Canada Day, a bit late. I'm impressed with your site and your honesty.
Not sure if I'm going to sell it yet. Yes Canadian, I'm from Alberta near Edmonton. Here is James (creator of Inukshuk guitars) e-mail: jaymzmcneice@hotmail.com
Cheers
, I'm American but spent most of 1992 in the Calgary area. The Edmonton Folk Festival was by far the best music festival I ever attended, they had some great players that year (Ry Cooder and David Lindley, Martin Simpson, and others). Rock, blues, bluegrass, Irish music, African bands; slide guitar and fiddle workshops, jam sessions and collaborations....... something for everyone. This may have been before your time and I don't know what the festival lineups are like now, but boy that was one heck of a 3-day musical weekend !
Cover the pickups with tape! Metal filings will destroy your pickups.
It's steel wool particles that you need to worry about, which I do not use for fretwork. It's usually not an issue because I'm quite careful, but if any fret filings accumulate on the covered pickup (again not as big an issue on covered pickups) is takes a second to remove. If it was uncovered pickups, I would take extra precautions
Reminds me of a rickenbacker
Wow
Unless frets are damaged, why would you file before checking action?
It was buzzing all over with high action, looking at eye level it had high spots. Confirmed before filing with a fret rocker
No sir, that guitar didn’t jangle
Definitely not a Rick style bridge. They did not use rollers.
Nice video, but lose the music .
That seems to be the consensus. Lol
Rickenbacher's have their name on the headstock ON the plastic plate. They don't have an aluminum plate that says "Pyramid" on them. This is like a Rogue issue guitar that was a Rickenbacher copy - but before Rogue came around as a brand name. See if the pickups and wiring are good and if it tunes alright. I wouldn't expect to sell it for more than $450.
any polarity issues with both of the pups pointing in the same direction?
Doesn't seem to be
Change pickups or wax pot them. Would be the way to go nice worth more than 20$
new pups and its a winner. Are the pups wax potable?
They are fully sealed but I think there is a method to place them in boiling wax, haven't tried it
Im sure beating the shit out of the pickups with a flathead gave it some interesting character as well....
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yeah...but it ain't stereo...
I really don't understand why you wouldn't cover the pickups when you file the frets wtf
It's very easy to remove afterwards if any fret filings accumulate on the pickup. I'm careful so it's usually a non-issue or just takes a second to clean up. Typically it's steel wool particles that you need to worry about which I do not use for fretwork.
I'll give you $100 for it ?
I've actually had an offer for $500! I think I'm keeping this one though
I don't blame you . Thanks