Rickenbacker 325


The Rickenbacker 325 is the first of the Capris series of hollow body guitars released in 1958 by Rickenbacker.

Overview

It was designed by Roger Rossmeisl, a guitar craftsman from a family of German instrument makers. Production models were short scale, dot fretboard inlays, and a small body. The body is unbound, semi-hollow, with 2 o'clock angled sound hole, and boasts the "crescent moon"-style cutaways. This series is currently available only in "C" reissue form. These instruments gained prominence due to John Lennon's use of a 325 during the early years of The Beatles. John Lennon's 1958 model was among the very first batch made and has the pre-production feature of a solid top with no sound hole. All subsequent production short-scale 300-series Rickenbackers had sound holes until the late 1970s.

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