Rickenbacker 650S Review

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Overall Rating 4.5

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Features 4.5

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Quality 2

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Reliability / Value 5

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Rickenbacker 650S Specs

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  • Body Shape: LPS  
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  • Number of Strings: 6  
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  • Body Type: Solid Body  
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  • Scale Length: 24-3/4"  
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  • Body Construction: Double cutaway  
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  • Body Construction: Neck-thru  
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  • Body Wood: Walnut  
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  • Pickguard: Yes  
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  • Neck Joint: Neck-through  
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  • Neck Wood: Maple  
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  • Fingerboard Material: Maple  
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  • Fingerboard Inlays: Dot  
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  • Number of Frets: 24  
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  • Nut Width: 1.75"  
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  • Tuners: Schaller  
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  • Bridge: Saddle Lock  
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  • Hardware: Gold  
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  • Number of Pickups: 2  
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  • Pickup Switch Type: 3-way Pickup Selector  
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  • Bridge Pickup Type: Humbucker  
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  • Neck Pickup Type: Humbucker  
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  • Controls: Volume  
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  • Controls: Tone  
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  • Humbucking Pickups with Mono Output.

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Few guitars can match what Rickenbacker's 650S offers in its price range. That's why many musicians decided to go for 650S, and if you decide to do so as well, you surely won't be sorry. With almost nothing to add to this beautiful instrument, rest assured it will serve you well.

This guitar is fitted with all the features you could possibly wish for, for a playing style that goes with this kind of instrument. Carefully chosen features leave no guitar player's desire unfulfilled, which makes Rickenbacker's 650S an extremely well featured guitar with which you'll be thoroughly pleased. Highest grades for 650S's features!

Rickenbacker did a good job. 650S is built well, the finish feels just right, the hardware is solid. While playing for a longer periods of time you can expect 650S to stay in tune and you will be pleased while playing, because the neck is extremely comfortable. You might find that over time metal parts will oxidize a bit, but that's normal and nothing to worry about. Rickenbacker did a really good job with 650S guitar.

650S is a reliable guitar that will go to hell and back with you, and would want to do it again. It's a magnificent instrument that is reliable on stage as it is in studio. It will stand the beating and still would not lose its charm and ability to perform. Rickenbacker did make the instrument that should be considered the most reliable in its class!