Surely it's a Fireglo 330? Not this one. The 3 clues are the 21 fret neck, the f-hole instead of the cats eye, and finally the Trapeze bridge, instead of the R. Rose Morris had a massive role in bringing Marshall Amplifiers to the world, and they had a strong enough performance for Rickenbacker to appoint them and produce a specific model range. Not to be confused with the Shaftesbury range of Rickenbacker style guitars offered by Rose Morris. Whether it was a cheeky strategy or a solution to dwindling supply from Santa Ana will probably never be known, but our extremely tenuous link here is that the Rickenbacker copies under the Shaftesbury brand were produced in the Matsumoku factory - a result of a close co-operation with Shiro Arai. But this beauty is a Californian one - a real one. Pete Townshend got through a few but we'll not mention that.
A better write-up of the work carried out on this is here
The tenuous link as mentioned above, and the fact that here at Matsumoku Guitar & Bass, we can't resist showcasing lovely old guitars like this, I feel that this is worth a mention.
Just listen to it... What a sound.
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