

Rosewood fretboard with 21 original medium-thin frets and white dot inlays. Maple neck with a nut width of just under 1 5/8 inches, a short (three-quarter) scale length of 21 1/4 inches and a medium-to-thick profile. Asymetrical double cutaway, 12 3/4 inch wide and just under 1 1/2 inch deep maple body with a single f-hole (running at 1 o'clock) on the top. This super rare Model 325 weighs just 6.30 lbs. Incidentally, a photograph of Thielemans at a 1958 US trade shows a 325 that is likely to have been the very guitar later purchased by Lennon in Hamburg.An Exceptionally Fine 1967 Rickenbacker 325 - The 'John Lennon' Modelġ967 Rickenbacker 325 (three pickups with vibrato)

Fogerty modified his model to include a Gibson humbucker pickup.

Lennon's 1958 model was among the first batch made and has the pre-production feature of a solid top with no sound hole. These instruments gained prominence due to John Lennon's use of a 325 during the early years of The Beatles. The body is unbound, semi-hollow, with an angled sound hole, and boasts "crescent moon"-style cutaways. Production models were 20 + 3⁄ 4 inches (530 mm) short scale, dot fretboard inlays, and a small ( 12 + 3⁄ 4-inch-wide ) body. The 325 was designed by Roger Rossmeisl, a guitar craftsman from a family of German instrument makers. The Rickenbacker 325 is the first of the Capri series of hollow body guitars released in 1958 by Rickenbacker. Mapleglo (natural), Jetglo (black), Fireglo (red sunburst) Maple alder on 50s instruments & reissues.īubinga (1960s–2000s), Paduak (late 1950s), Chechen (current). Rickenbacker 325C64 (A reissue of the 1964 model 325 played by John Lennon)
