The original 4080's was built for Geddy Lee of Rush for four of their albums: A Farewell to Kings, Hemispheres, Permanent Waves, and Moving Pictures. The Rickenbacker 4080 Double Neck Bass & Guitar was a double neck guitar consisting of a four-string bass for the top neck and a six-string or twelve-string guitar for the bottom. It comes with the original black hard case with a blue plush lining. This 4080 is in very nice condition with only light weather checking and a few dings. Electronics include a two position neck selector switch on the upper right bout, a pickup selector switch, volume and tone controls for each pickup (4 total) and a master tone control all on the lower right bout. There are two Rickenbacker pickups for the bass and two for the guitar. Guitar depth is 1 1/2" It is equipped with Rick-O-Sound. Overall length is 44" and the width is 18 3/8". Other features include chrome hardware, white pick guards, a combination tailpiece/bridge on the bass and six way bridge and an "R" tailpiece on the guitar. while the bass keys have vertical lines and the guitar keys sport a raised star. It has individual Grover tuning keys on both necks and both are stamp pat. The 24 fret guitar neck is 1 5/8" at the nut with a scale length of 24 3/4". The 20 fret bass neck is 1 5/8" at the nut and has a 32 1/4" scale length. Both bolt-on bound necks have rosewood fret boards with triangle inlays. Straight necks, all valid frets in good condition, no repair o other. Rickenbacker started making a limited production run of doublenecks in 1975 - before that they were special order only – with three models – onejust guitar (12-string /6-string) and two with guitar and bass – the 4080-12 (4-string on top, 12-string on bottom) and the 4080 (4-string on top, 6-string on bottom). A rare collectible 1981 Rickenbacker model 4080 double neck (six string 480 guitar and four string 4001 bass). This Rickenbacker 4080 Double Neck Bass & Guitar is very rare and ultra cool Rickenbacker guitar.
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By the time of the "Damn the Torpedoes" album, his trademark guitar was a RIC 620/12.1980 RICKENBACKER 4080 model Twin neck, White, RARE,EX code BA555 See all photo in web site In 1965 Petty was sporting a hollow body double bound RIC Model 365 WB guitar in Fireglo. Tom Petty's association with Rickenbacker goes back a long way. This is a 1966 short scale guitar similar to the Rickenbacker 325 model except this is an Electro ES16. There were 807 fire glo models, 6 lefthanded fire glo models, 186 black or Jet Glo models and 1 black left handed model. SALE PENDING The Rickenbacker 360-12 was introduced as 12-string version of the 360 in 1964, along with a number of cosmetic and hardware updates to the series. Rickenbacker / Electro ES16 Guitar - 1,500 (Salem) Here is an absolute Gem of a guitar. Each guitar will be accompanied by an individually numbered Certificate of Authenticity and Origin. The Company will manufacture only 1000 of these instruments. The instrument is available in Fireglo and Jetglo. A Rickenbacker vintage case is included with each instrument. The neck on the 660/12TP was designed to Petty's demanding standards. Using neck through body construction, this 12-string instrument features "checked" binding, vintage pickups, vintage knobs, gold pickguard and nameplate, vintage keys designed to Rickenbacker specifications, trapeze tailpiece and a 12 saddle bridge. The Tom Petty Limited Edition, Model 660/12TP, is entirely hand made in America from solid "charactered" Eastern Rock Maple with a fully inlaid 21 fret rosewood fingerboard. Serienummer 556 av 1000 tillverkade, med certifikat, nyskick. Rickenbacker 660/12 TOM PETTY Limited Edition.