1960 360 F BODY 12-STRING RECONSTRUCTION IN GREENGLO

Take a trashed 360F body, add a StudioCalifornia-built 12-string neck, re-bind it in checkerboard, add new fretboard and triangular markers in pearl, new plastic parts in gold, a Dane Wilder precision wiring harness-itself a work of functional art, and the result is bound to be striking when finished in a custom-mixed Greenglo burst. This guitar features newer scatter wound toaster pickups and newer-vintage hardware: knobs, tuners, and bridge and tailpiece courtesy of Winfield.

Our description would be “reinterpretation of a vintage guitar that was never originally in the Rickenbacker catalogue”. In fact, a 12-string “F” Bodied Rickenbacker didn’t come into existence until the second run of “F”s, in late 1966.

This one has a nice heft and balance and a great, full sound with jangly overtones. The neck is slim and chording is very easy owing to a 7.5” crown radius that fits the fingers just right.