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by treehousecollections
Tue Jan 31, 2012 4:32 pm
Forum: Effects, Amps & Gear, Pedal Building
Topic: Have you seen the new Yamaha amps?
Replies: 33
Views: 8511

I took classical lessons in the late sixties and a music store in Midland had just started selling Yamaha stuff. My parents bought a Yamaha classical guitar for me. Yamaha had a speaker set up in the store, which was hooked to an off brand amp. The speaker was about three feet wide and five feet hig...
by treehousecollections
Fri Dec 30, 2011 3:42 am
Forum: All Other Guitars
Topic: I want one!
Replies: 26
Views: 9038

He made one in butterscotch it says down below, Sounds tasty look like baby do.
by treehousecollections
Thu Dec 29, 2011 3:22 am
Forum: All Other Guitars
Topic: Rickenbacker 850
Replies: 22
Views: 13607

Very possibly true. The hole is positioned at the center of balance of the instrument, so it hangs neither neck nor body heavy. On my own '56 Combo 400 (according to the serial number, it is the 88th solid body Rickenbacker ever made!), the back of the guitar's body was clad with friction material....
by treehousecollections
Thu Dec 29, 2011 1:38 am
Forum: All Other Guitars
Topic: New cheap guitar:Peavey T-25
Replies: 28
Views: 16893

westtexasred wrote:Thanks for the posts. It's a nice guitar.It weigh just a little more than my tele 7.6 lbs,my tele weighs 7.4 lbs.

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It looks like oak.
by treehousecollections
Thu Dec 29, 2011 1:32 am
Forum: All Other Guitars
Topic: I want one!
Replies: 26
Views: 9038

BillClay wrote:^
Yeah, next you're gonna tell me that he doesn't actually play using strings that are made from melted down cadillac fenders.
He can if he wants.
by treehousecollections
Thu Dec 29, 2011 1:30 am
Forum: All Other Guitars
Topic: I want one!
Replies: 26
Views: 9038

Left_Hand_'Stang wrote:why does he wear that hat... it looks either like some weird sea creature or Bibble from Polka Dot shorts.
I went to see them in Dallas last year with Tom Petty and he told the story of the hat. It was handmade for him by a fan in Africa- must have been a special fan, he wears it a lot.
by treehousecollections
Thu Dec 29, 2011 12:17 am
Forum: All Other Guitars
Topic: Baked maple is the shape of things to come.
Replies: 21
Views: 9921

gaybear wrote:my peavey fretboard was well worn for sure. that's one of the things i liked about it, because it was kind of a record of my own playing.
My Rickenbacker sure wore in the high frets. It is Rose wood, I think. I think they use maple now and it is stained much darker.
by treehousecollections
Wed Dec 28, 2011 11:42 pm
Forum: All Other Guitars
Topic: Rickenbacker 850
Replies: 22
Views: 13607

westtexasred wrote:
treehousecollections wrote: I can't remember what the hole is on the back of the 850.
Its for a saxophone strap
I wonder who thought of that, I bet Rick is the only company that had a saxophone strap hole.
by treehousecollections
Wed Dec 28, 2011 11:40 pm
Forum: All Other Guitars
Topic: Rickenbacker 850
Replies: 22
Views: 13607

desertan wrote:WOOF!!!
by treehousecollections
Wed Dec 28, 2011 6:55 pm
Forum: All Other Guitars
Topic: First guitars
Replies: 98
Views: 44467

Hey Nyck, I never saw a fretless guitar,except for a cello if you hold it wrong. I wonder if your fretless wonder would have sounded like an electric Cello, Ha. The things we did. I had to paint my Rickenbacker gold pick guard black. I am sure glad I didn't do the truss rod cover too.
by treehousecollections
Wed Dec 28, 2011 6:37 pm
Forum: All Other Guitars
Topic: Baked maple is the shape of things to come.
Replies: 21
Views: 9921

The Headboys are pretty good, I don't really hear anything distinctive from the SG. It may be the effects. It looks good and the specs make for a well playing guitar. Gibson produces quality and always has. West Texas Red, have you played the SG or the new Les Paul? Has anyone in here? I was just wo...
by treehousecollections
Wed Dec 28, 2011 6:24 pm
Forum: All Other Guitars
Topic: Rickenbacker 850
Replies: 22
Views: 13607

Hi , I belong to the corporate Rickenbacker forum and did have the same pictures up there last year. I can't remember what the hole is on the back of the 850. If you look at all the 850's they have differences. My guitar is a single pickup, toaster type. It is authentic, because it copies nothing. I...
by treehousecollections
Mon Dec 19, 2011 9:33 pm
Forum: All Other Guitars
Topic: Rickenbacker factory tour 2011
Replies: 14
Views: 4102

I wish they had made a video of their production back in the late fifties. I have a guitar made during that time and it is so well made. I think the new ones are probably more precise guitar to guitar than back then. The brown strip through the middle of the neck on my guitar looks like it is walnut...
by treehousecollections
Mon Dec 19, 2011 9:14 pm
Forum: All Other Guitars
Topic: Rickenbacker 850
Replies: 22
Views: 13607

Pictures of my guitar

I am sorry I forgot to put the link in to my pictures. http://s993.photobucket.com/albums/af54 ... 1956-2010/

I have searched the world over to find another one and am still hoping someone will recognize her.
by treehousecollections
Mon Dec 19, 2011 9:12 pm
Forum: All Other Guitars
Topic: Rickenbacker 850
Replies: 22
Views: 13607

New man here

Hello, I am new here and love the site. I got here through Googling Rickenbacker 850. West Texas Red I have never seen these pictures. The only 850 I have seen belonged to Tony Blair. I hail from West Texas, Midland to be exact. I am now in the center of the state. Where did you find those pictures ...

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