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Rickenbacker 360/12 Fireglo Semi Hollow Fire Glow Guitar With OHSC
Rickenbacker 360/12 Fireglo Semi Hollow Fire Glow Guitar With OHSC
The world's most popular twelve string electric guitar boasts all of the deluxe features of its Model 360 cousin. A standard for recording for more than thirty years, its haunting, melodic chorus has continued to benefit from evolution. The slimmed and re-contoured neck now makes the 360/12 easier to play than ever.
Careful acoustic research has resulted in the full, rich and warm sound of this popular model. Two single coil pickups on a full size body are accented by a traditionally shaped sound hole. The 24 fret Rosewood fingerboard is punctuated by dot inlay fret markers, with full double cutaways permitting access to all the frets.
The 360/12 was among the first electric 12-string guitars and undoubtedly one of the most popular ever made. That still holds true today. It was given worldwide attention when George Harrison used it on many Beatles recordings, and has been the "go to" electric 12-string for many guitarists since then.
Rickenbacker used an innovative headstock design that incorporates both a slotted-style peghead and a solid peghead, thereby eliminating the need for the larger headstock normally associated with a 12-string guitar. Another feature unique to Rickenbacker 12-strings is the ordering of the courses. Most 12-strings have the octave course on the bass side of the standard course; Rickenbacker reverses this convention. This feature along with the semi-hollow body design and thru-body neck structure contribute to its unique timbre.
- Body Type: Semi-Acoustic
- Neck Type: Set-in
- Body Wood: Maple
- Neck Wood: Maple
- Fingerboard Wood: Rosewood
- Neck Binding: Yes
- Scale Length: 62.9 cm (24 3/4'')
- Neck Width at Nut: 41.4 mm (1.63'')
- Neck Width at 12th Fret: 49.05 mm (1 .931'')
- Frets: 24
- Crown Radius: 25.4 cm (10'')
- Fret Marker Style: Triangle
- Tailpiece: ''R''
- Bridge: 6 Saddle
- Machine Heads: Schaller
- Type of Pickups: Hi-gain
- Output Type: Mono and Stereo
- Overall Length: 101.6 cm (40'')
- Overall Width: 38.1 cm (15'')
- Overall Depth: 38.1 mm (1 1/2'')
Serial # 2235688