Re: Any Rickenbacker 620 owners out there?
Love 620's, neck are a little skinny but not unusable. Never played a poorly made one fwiw.
I dig them
I don't know where you got this from. The 620 necks are anything BUT skinny. Neck width at the nut is a full 1 5/8" wide and the neck is actually pretty thick and full. Not at all like a modern "C" shaped Les Paul and not even close to a Wizard or a PRS.
It is a very well made instrument. It even has the "Rick-O-Sound" (stereo jack).
I absolutely don't think of it being a "0ne-trick-pony". (I don't think Tom Petty would think so either). But it DOES do the jangle exceptionally well, so well that you get the feeling that that's all that it does. The neck pup is not muddy! It's as jangly as the bridge pup. But just like any guitar, the neck POSITION is going to sound fuller (with more mids and bass) and louder, and thus give the impression of being muddy when compared to the bridge pup.
They are as easy to string as any trapeze tailpiece guitar on the market, and neck adjustments are the same as any other guitar...you take off the truss rod cover and adjust the truss rod when/if needed.
I don't know where many of you are getting your information, but it is dead wrong. I've had my 620 Fireglow for about 10 years and find absolutely nothing to complain about (unlike Gibson, LTD, PRS SE, etc.).
Plus, the fret ends are the best factory finished job of
any guitar. Smooth as silk. Out of 3 dozen guitars that I own that were purchased, I can only say that about two other guitars...and the Ric is even better than those two. Other than these three exceptions, I have had to do a fret job on every guitar I have ever bought. I'm very picky about frets. That's one of the main reasons I even got into building guitars in the first place. The 620 doesn't need any work...it just needs to be played.
One other thing:
Yes the pups can't be height adjusted...just like all dog-ear P-90 pups. You can raise them by adding a shim under the pup and to lower them you can remove the thick neoprene spacer that is already there (I wouldn't recommend doing that, however, because it does mess with the tone).
If you want that Ric sound, the 620 is the best value of any.
