It does have various shortcomings though, the finish seem very soft and scratch prone and there are numerous slight blemishes around the body and neck. It sell for less than 1/10th the price of the real deal. I watched a YouTube video of a guy opening a real 325 up, and I'm really impressed by how the Chinese copy produced nearly all of the 325 hardware, very correctly. This one doesn't have an authentic vibrato, but a Bigsby style as stand in. The Rickenbacker 325 is a solid body short scale guitar that seems almost child sized, with three Rick "toaster" pickups. This two guitars in question are a Rickenbacher 325, the sort that John Lennon made famous in the early sixties, and Hofner Violin Bass, made famous by Paul McCartney in the early sixties. I came across some more Chinese clones, and it's been fun seeing what Chinese manufactures to in order to make a pickup for bottom dollar that is at least decent enough to assure repeat business.
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