That current owner is me.
Trust me when I say that it was a wreck. The body on this guitar was super mangled from the routes (which went through the X-bracing in the top, compromising the structural integrity of the top, and into the neck tenon. And the back had early stages of curling.
Plus the neck angle was so shot that it was completely unplayable, and there were plenty of other minor issues as well.
I’m not “restoring” it, I extracted the neck and what original RIckenbacker parts still existed on it, and I’ve installed the neck into a rare double bound Fireglo ‘66 body that had a mangled neck. There is nothing sad about it, the end result is way better than what how this thing arrived to me, in an abused, unplayable state.
All factory original finish, too. The neck was a good match to the body I had.
so much brass!!!
