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ALVIN DAVIES CUSTOM 12-STRING ELECTRIC 2003 I asked Alvin if he could make me a cheap Rickenbacker soundalike for recording. Although he was only keen on making acoustics at that time, I touched a nerve because he'd long had an ambition to make an "improved" Ricky 12 string. So in the end we chose my favourite 620 body shape and fireburst finish. Alvin dispensed with various Rickenbacker idiosyncrasies - the double truss rod, the mix-control, the closed tuning slots that make string-changes a nightmare, the large truss-rod cover that snags on strings, and the rather flimsy bridge, replaced with a Gotoh bridge/tailpiece. He also set the neck lower so we could avoid the need for a stepped up scratchplate. He faced it with a nice piece of flame-maple and gave it PRS style scraped edging. It also has genuine Ric vintage-style toaster pick-ups, factory rejects which were re-wound, and sounds and looks the biz - though I've improved the sound a bit by adding a 0.0047mF capacitor between the treble pickup and its volume pot, as Rickenbacker used to in order to cut the bass frequencies. |
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