Electric Guitars On eBay

Rickenbacker is one of the oldest brand names in the manufacture of electric guitars. The firm is headquartered in Santa Ana, California, and all of its production takes place there. Rickenbacker is the largest guitar company to manufacture all of their guitars within the United States, which is a key factor in their consistently high quality and prices.

Rickenbacker guitars are noted for their distinctive jangle and chime. They are very trebly instruments and, unlike most electric guitars used in rock and roll, are often played cleanly, without distortion. Because of their tone, the guitars are favored by jangle pop, power pop, and British Invasion-style groups. Though there are exceptions, most hard rock, metal, and punk outfits eschew Rickenbacker guitars because they are not as well suited to tougher, grittier sounds as are other guitars; Rickenbacker basses, however, are a staple of the hard rock genre.

One interesting application of a “Rick” is by Joe Walsh of the Eagles, who uses them almost exclusively for slide guitar with a generous touch of distortion - typically through a Dr Z Mazerati amplifier.

For this section, I’ve included the most popular models including the Rickenbacker 360, Rickenbacker 330, Rickenbacker 620 and two section for Rickenbacker basses - the Rickenbacker 4001 and the Rickenbacker 4003. I’ve created two special sections for Rare Rickenbackers and another for Vintage Rickenbacker. Lastly, which will probably irk a few people, I’ve created a section called Rickenbacker Lennon, which includes the 325 Rickenbacker (3/4 guitar with a very flat fret board radius) and the Rickenbacker 350 (also played by Lennon at various points).