Alden Beatbacker is available again.

ekwatts · Post by **ekwatts** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 1:52 pm

This is one of the better Ricky copies out there:

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 2:17 pm

Rockinbetter? Rockin' WORSE!

Not to my taste, I'm afraid. Nameplate looks homemade and the tailpiece is a travesty.

James · Post by **James** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 6:32 pm

In some ways it looks fantastic and in others it looks wonky. I guess that's improvement on most Aldens which are just wonky all round.

I think it's that there looks to be a lot of space between the pickups and then the bridge and tailpiece are cramped between the bridge pickup and the end of the body. I don't know how the actual ric version avoids that but I'm thinking it's an angled tailpiece to break up the straight lines.

ekwatts · Post by **ekwatts** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 6:50 pm

Perhaps it's a 24.75" or 25.5" neck as opposed to the ultra-short scale lengths of proper Rickenbackers?