{"product_id":"1984-rickenbacker-325v59-capri-vintage-guitar-mapleglo-john-lennon-w-bigsby-b5-burns-knobs","title":"1984 Rickenbacker 325V59 Capri Vintage Guitar Mapleglo John Lennon w\/ Bigsby B5 \u0026 Burns Knobs","description":"Up for sale, a 1984 Rickenbacker 325V59 in excellent condition and in perfect working order, with all of the John Lennon-centric touches. This rare and discontinued Rickenbacker model is a faithful reissue of the 325 Capri, decked out with the original, factory-installed Bigsby B5 vibrato, Bigsby bridge with Ric-style mounting plate, and (ostensibly aftermarket) Burns knobs in the same fashion that John Lennon modified his 325. And while the 325V59 wasn't officially offered in the Rickenbacker catalog until 1985, this model has all date codes from the first few years of the '80s, including the XJ-prefix on the mono jackplate, making it one of the very first 325V59 models ever produced.A short scale Rickenbacker model that truly captures the classic jangle and percussive rhythm familiar to any Beatles fan, this instrument is outfitted with the original trio of Toaster Top single coils. The guitar is also featherweight at only 6lbs 7oz. Professionally setup here at Mike \u0026amp; Mike's Guitar Bar and strung with 11-49 roundwound strings, this Rickenbacker is dialed in with spot-on intonation and low action.The maple neck has a round medium C profile, and much of the depth and shoulder of the profile carve is attributable to the thick slab rosewood fretboard. The profile measures .885\" deep at the 1st fret and .965\" at the 12th. The original slender frets are practically perfect on the gloss-finished rosewood fretboard, showing only a touch of wear beneath the plain strings on frets 1-3 with well-rounded crowns. The scale length is 21\", as per factory spec for this short scale model, making it easy to execute chord extensions and navigate the fretboard quite speedily. The nut width measures 1 5\/8\". On the headstock, the original open-gear Grover tuners with unique long shafts (to fit through the thick Rick headstock) and butterbean buttons are intact and turn smoothly. The lucite gold original Rickenbacker truss rod cover is also intact.The electronics all function as intended, with an untouched wiring harness and CTS pots that date to the 22nd week of '81 and 24th week of '83, which speaks both to the extremely early nature of this model and the extremely small production totals for Rickenbackers in the '80s, as their batches of potentiometers lasted well beyond the year they were ordered. The mono jack plate has an \"XJ\" prefix, translating to October of 1984. The three-way pickup selector couples the middle pickup to the neck and bridge for tonal combinations only found on triple pickup models, and this guitar features a trio of Rickenbacker's higher output Toaster Top pickups offered in this era.The gold lucite pickguards do have light oxidation of the gold paint on the underside consistent with the age of the instrument, yet the WD-made sticker does suggest an aftermarket lower pickguard. The compensated Bigsby saddle is mounted to a shortened baseplate which matches the usual Ric bridge footprint, anchored securely to the top with two mounting screws. The bridge works in concert with the original Bigsby B5 vibrato tailpiece which is a very useful and responsive vibrato, perfect for quick warbles and moderate dives, jumping back to the original pitch with ease. The Mapleglo finish exhibits some minor finish loss adjacent to the rear strap button, with repaired seam separation at the neck heel and a sliver of factory filler around the neck pocket itself, with a tiny amount of additional filler at both ends of the back center seam. Wear is otherwise limited to a few faint scuffs and marks on the back and one very shallow finish scratch through the ambered gloss. The neck profile is flawless.","brand":"Rickenbacker","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40145934024890,"sku":"XJ1141","price":4499.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/4437\/4714\/products\/medium_af82638e-e975-41e0-9262-93d4c58cb29b.jpg?v=1751515380","url":"https:\/\/mmguitarbar.com\/products\/1984-rickenbacker-325v59-capri-vintage-guitar-mapleglo-john-lennon-w-bigsby-b5-burns-knobs","provider":"Mike \u0026 Mike's Guitar Bar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}