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i will still query the prices...

Exactly my thoughts. They said each guitar gets polished 1,5 hours by skilled workers. From a company perspective thats around 150$ labour alone just for polishing it.

I was seriously impressed with the skill involved.

The thing is, that its not just one. It a lot at a time. Multiple that $150 by how many they do a day. Then you have the right answer.@@Chris-yy7qc

@@ShortFuseFighting Stick with a Samick.

Yes, you get what you pay for. I own two of them, I know.

They're not that expensive in the scheme of things. I buy nothing but used anyway. I currently have an '83 320 (non vibrato sibling of the famed 325) and guitars were made way differently versus CNC. They're hand routed for the old process, so open up an older Ric and you'll see how it's not very pretty nor precise. The shaping of the body and neck, paint and extensive polishing is all done by hand. The necks changed depending on the year and unit of production. Hence why they went to CNC to keep neck shape and profiles consistent. Rics made before late late 90s are conversion varnish. All Rics today have UV cured finishes. Both are hard, durable and have glass like finishes. When taken care of properly, they last forever and shine up instantly.

Agreed!

Wood is wood and every guitar is different. No mater how perfectly they are made.

Rick basses suck ass...actually

Even the best of the 4003s are no match compared to the 4001... that's just me, though

I think that is what is known as "quiet confidence". Of course he knows it will be good.

Rickenbacker was austrian ya mughead

@@oruletesfahejiz The guy who started it came from over seas yes, but it is an American company.

@@oruletesfahejiz Switzerland

Quantos mil dólares está custando um Contrabaixo Rickenbancker ai nas lojas americanas?

...while you keep butchering simple American English with such non-plurals as "companys." Great job, genius!

You're romanticizing. It's been proven over and over again that tone wood is a myth. That "sound" comes from the electronics and the person playing - nothing else. There are also no artisans in this video. Running a CNC machine is a job for a teenager.

@@DiarrheaBubbles If you only saw CNC machines in the video, you quit watching early.

@@Big_Bag_of_Pus Also, why would we take anyone seriously, who lacks basic reading comprehension skills? The OP wrote absolutely nothing about the type of wood contributing to the tone.

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ron bZoom oh wait till you get your taxes, what I did, never looking back..got the ruby red 2015 4003, love it!!

ron bZoom i waited, saved and planned for 15 years to find mine..

Good for you. Was it worth the wait?

absolutely. I have a 70s 4001s. i highly recommend seeking/saving for however long it takes.

***** I completely agree. However I think the happy few that pay top dollar for a new Ric don't do it for the sake of practicality. As I mentioned in another thread, people don't buy a Jaguar because of it's fuel economy or reliability. They buy because, it's a frigg'n Jag, baby! I think it's the same with Rics. People love 'em because they love 'em, expense be damned.

I agree... they are so mass produced now

They would notice lol. They sell every guitar they make and I've heard the waitlist for a new Ric is 2 years long even.

this is NOT what you call "mass production", @@sheerluckholmes5320 , and each and ervery instrument is feeding a worker's family

@@manuelfraiman5534 I'm a CNC programmer.... and those sure look like those are mass produced on a CNC.... but I guess they do have to sand them by hand.....and drop the "feeding their family" crap.......

Sheerluck Holmes how could you find the programming for a cnc to make a Rickenbacker? I know someone who owns a cnc machine and id like to make one

also I tend to think of bass guitars when I hear Rickenbacker not guitars.

On a Martin guitar one slip up and the guitar is destroyed. They don’t make second.

I wouldn't mind a few Knicks along as it doesn't effect the sound or playability

Very disappointed with 330 and 4001s bass bad fretboard finish they say oh it’s your fault neck constantly needs adjusting finish very thin on body buff marks not very well made wood is not dried properly

I have a mapleglo 4003 that i bought preowned sight unseen off of reverb and it's in great condition but one tiny thing i noticed recently even after all of this time that I've had it and played it (I can't put it down) is that on the right where the neck meets the body it appears that someone took a tiny little piece off of the body and filled it with some sort of wood resin and then the finish went on top of it and it wasn't smoothed out or anything. It doesn't bug me at all (obviously since i haven't noticed it until very recently and you can hardly see it) but I thought it was kinda funny.

Chris Squires blowed my head with his bass sound in the 70's. I was 15 and im an amatuer bass player and play along with Squire......"Roundabout".....kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Zr6lhdurvsu8h6s.html

It's nothing they can reproduce unfortunately. I have the 4001CS and it's the closest they got but still not quite.

+Fergal Quigley John Hall is a little eccentric, but he's one of the best manufacturers of guitars today. He stays true to his production methods and product which is more than can be said for other people. I mean, can you imagine Rickenbacker pulling a stunt like GIbson did with the 2015 models? No way, man. No way.

+Fergal Quigley Privately owned, not corporate. Like it or not, it makes a big difference on the priorities a company can set for itself.

Fergal Quigley Gibson's are terribly overpriced and ridiculous, in my humble opinion.....

Rickenbacker instruments are really made with care. A lot of time, hard work, and love goes into making Rickenbacker instruments.

Fuzzy Butkus You can buy a Gibson Les Paul Studio new for around $1,200. By the time you get your Epiphone up to par with Gibson by upgrading humbuckers, tuners, bridge, electronics, etc... you are around $1,000 and your finish is still poly instead of nitrocellulose and still an Epiphone. ; )

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The curves on the top and bottom look like they are from different instruments, in kind of a mesmerizingly weird way.

what about hofner?

TheBeatlesRock12341 I have played hofner guitars and basses, and back when mecca first introduced the huffier bass them and the guitars were only as good as Kay or silvertone guitars. it was that way up until the 80's when they started trying to build a better instrument to take advantage of the popularity of the Beatle bass. today the violin bass is built great and can be intonenated. but the price is way higher than the quality.

"Played Hofner guitars....."....heh heh!! I have a 1950's Hofner President....not even in the Official Hofner Legend book....not serial catalogued,cos in the beginning,Hofner kept no record of production. My friend who bought it originally,broke the neck off completely,a long time ago,,[about 50 years ago..],and being a model engineer [self-taught],and a coalminer,he used his loaf,and secured the neck back on with a home-made bolt and through-toggle,which doesn't look pretty....around the twelfth fret,but I have had this instrument since 1971,the original finish has,over time cracked minutely,the soundboard has cracks around the "F" holes,and it has been in my studio for 17 years where the temperature varies between almost zero degrees celcius,and ninety degrees in the summer,and guess what???......I could bring it down now,not having played it for a year or two,and the intonation will be as it was when it was built. The old Hofners were indestructible,even if a small repair was necessary here and there now and again!....AND....,they cost 28 Guineas 'in the 1950's[English old currency!] One Guinea= £1-1shilling One Shilling equals 5 pence in today's currency. So the guitar cost £29-40pence! 50-odd years later....STILL a great sounding,and looking guitar! Plus...Mother of Pearl inlays....NOT PLASTIC! Check out the original Hofner GOLDEN GUITAR...!!! Great Video..ignore the knockers who know nothing about guitars mate!!

@ don't you have a rickenbacker 325?

Kiesel does it well also

Go for it buy a RIC. I own like 3 basses and 2 guitars playability is super fine

I love the Ric aesthetic but (like most people) don’t love the 4003 tone, so I decided to build my own. It is really heartwarming to see people who take such immense pride in their work though.

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Dean, I play em all, matter of preference actually. Al - I'll go with you..

Ha! :)

Exactly

I have one P-bass and a Rickenbacker 4003 only; they are two differents animals but are both greats instruments. But the punch and the melodic approach of the Rick with the pick, for my humble opinion, is superior than P-bass. Instead The Last one is a Tank Groove machine with fingers.

Price of a Ric is very reasonable!! You pay more for much less quality with a Gibson. And don't get me wrong, I love my old Gibsons. but my Ric 360... there is no factory made instrument - and possibly no custom built either - that is in the same ballpark as Rickenbacker build quality.

I paid $999.99 for a new Fireglo 330 fifteen years ago and $1400.00 for a new Mapleglo 620 five years ago. I think these prices are fairly reasonable for an American made guitar.

@@michaelmcdonald8877 In 1980 I got a new 4001 for about $550. The p bass was about $450 back then.

They're using CNC machining on a computer program. The price is absolutely absurd and mark my words, will see the profits made by foreign companies who utilize the same technology and provide the same quality for a mere fraction of the price. If you want the best guitar on planet earth for cheap, buy a Korean guitar. These guys would be better off asking twice the price for hand crafted instruments. I'm sorry to be that way, but two thousand dollars is an absolutely ridiculous price for something that took 45 minutes to machine. That's just greed.

Ya, Charles could do with a shower and a clean up every month and maybe find a barber close by the homeless shelter.

Yeah because every guitar legend was a real clean cut "short back and sides" kind of guy! 🤣

El, they all look kinda skid row. I bet the older ricks are better quality. But what do i know , nuttin.

Also nice to see that this video is 6 years old! And they were already thinking about that stuff. Same goes with the finish they applied with next to no solvents. that's really great.

he would say that though wouldn't he?

Says the people that live in entirely wood made houses lol

I knew he would say that. Guitar manufacturers are under strict legal guidelines what woods they can use. Just virtue signalling.

@@robsonf6683 The framing and sheet ply timber in modern houses is also sustainably plantation grown,so what's your point.

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He does we supply them with the wood their orders take a pretty long time to put together and I used to think they are picky but in reality I now see why they are so picky these guitars are beautiful

It's polyester, and a majority of electrics use, due to California's VOC (volatile organic compound) laws.

@Jorg Sure, Fornikilya needs more.

Yes this is the beginning UV CURD . LIKE TO SEE IT IN THE MANUFACTURER OF 🚗. SHINE LIKE A DIMOND

@@robertgraf9265 it's about time

@Jorg Sorry, I get dyslexic went I try to type C A L I F O R N I A. There, that's better.

I'll translate...In 1973 for the first time I heard the band Yes and around that time I was 14 years of age and was captivated by the sound of the bass. Some time later I found out the sound came from a Rickenbacker. Today I'm still a fan of the sound of Chris Squire.

YES.! Yo tambien in 1973.

Made in the US, is what we gtr non American buyers are looking for ! Greetings from Costa Rica !

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Old people...

Just imagine what he looked like before he cleaned up for the factory tour. 🤣

Or like he slept under a truck last night.

This ain't no fashion show.Try to concentrate on the video.I find Charles one of the most insightful reviewers at Premiere guitar.Ricks are an acquired taste.Not for everyone but a well made instrument compared to a lot of junk out there.

@Roughman Hey, I'm a lawyer and I can't afford one, though I had a 4001 back in high school.

Plenty of inconsistency with them, just like any other company. Too bad they just act shittier about it.

I have a 330 and I recently played a used copy for sale at £150 (!) made by Indie Guitar co. It weighed a ton and felt and sounded so wrong. You get what you pay for...

DeadKoby thank you. I was wondering why I never see ric copies

MardukFilms In the 70's Shaftesbury made nice copies and in the 90's Tanglewood also..But nothing feels or sounds like the real thing. Since this I have also play a "Rockinbetter" Chinese rip off ... Firewood!

@@demilieu They use different fret wire now. Not an issue.

Amen!

Emotions & spirit do count. I was tired of hearing C&C this and C&C that. Think spirit & soul.

C "N" C. It stands for Computerized Numeric Control. You are thinking of C & C Music Factory: "EVERYBODY DANCE NOW!" : - )

Hey Tree Hugger, before you wrinkle your undies too much, I hope you realize something - the Natives in most of the countries where the cool wood is from often use it for firewood and/or tear it out and plant beans where it was. They are not managing it at all, so if Gibson gets hold of it, it will actually get appreciated.

@@captainamerica9353 Almost 70 percent of deforestation in Latin America is caused by commercial agribusiness concerns, not "Natives".

@@c.a.t.732 , you may be correct, but the fact of the matter is that precious wood is often used for firewood, so i figure it's better used by instrument makers. And another defense of Gibson is that all guitar, oboe, clarinet, piano makers have used exotic wood over the years. The biggest problem is the Chinese using it for furniture, they care how they get it, and use 10X as much as all the guitar builders combined.

@@captainamerica9353 Bottom line... what people, including Gibson or the Chinese, have been doing in the past by way of using up increasingly rare and endangered wood species is clearly unsustainable, as is the case with any finite resource. In the same way that efforts are being made to replace slash-and-burn agriculture in Latin America with eco-tourism and other more environmental-friendly sources of income, the use of sustainable woods in instrument manufacturing just makes sense in the long run.

@@c.a.t.732 , Sustainable wood has been used from the get-go on most guitars, and exotic wood on the high-end models. IOW, your bread-and-butter guitars have used maple, mahogany, walnut bodies and sitka (acoustic tops). Only a relatively few ever used Brazilian or similar Rosewoods and very few acoustics have Swiss spruce tops and ebony fretboards. So what I'm saying is that most good acoustics have used sustainable East Indian Rosewood bodies and Sitka tops for the last 50 years, and electrics Alder or Maple bodies. I have no problem with using more Cherry or Walnut but the use of the exotic stuff on instruments is nothing compared to using it for flooring, wall paneling and furniture for the rich Chinese.

Michael Deas

A little?

and that's his 'excited' look. maybe his dog died that morning

He looks like he's been doing heroine for the past week

A shit job by the "interviewer.

Just as the Ric plant has a high quality control regimen.......the Mgr. should demand the same from interviewers. i.e. no tour unless you at the very least comb your head & beard OR, wear a paper bag with cutouts!!

Totally agree with Mr. Trageser and Mr. Frank. I wonder if his mommy still makes Mr. Saufley's bed. Perhaps she drove him to the interview, too.

Yes the facts that he was there late and that he looked like he hadn't showered in a week and a half were very unprofessional.

The guy was so flat and unresponsive, would have been better with a dummy.

@@johnrogers9481 You mean it wasn’t a dummy???

A Rick for 200 wow your lucky

look at 20:30 setting the screw...

+jsilence418 Now is, great Chinese machines, making great American guitars.

jsilence418 My 1979 4001 is awesome!!! Even though it has to compete today with more modern basses I have, like Alembic (THE bass) and Yamaha, I always said the same: if I have to sell everything, I will keep only the Rick.

A Rick has a sound all it's own - keep the Rick!

@IngLouisSchreurs Rics are not in any way overpriced.

Agreed. He made homeless people look like English royalty!

Billy Stone Oh bullshit! If I've heard one story like this as the foundation for a rebuttal just to make me feel bad I've probably heard a billion! And if you're homeless just how the hell can you afford a computer much less the power to run the damn thing!?

Michael R Sounds like a pretty good night to me minus the glue sniffing haha.

He just looks like a regular ass musician. If he would've introduced himself as Jeff Tweedy I wouldn't have bat an eye.

Sad thing is the he ia probably getting paid to do this shit