The new Rick arrived in time for the band’s second appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. A gift from Rickenbacker provided a replacement for the road-weary original, a new Jetglo (black) 325 presented during The Beatles’ first American visit early in 1964. Later, he had the guitar refinished black. The Kauffman he replaced with a better Bigsby unit. The knobs he replaced quickly with smaller Hofner types. It had the cooker knobs that Rickenbacker fitted at the time and it had a Kauffman vibrato, neither apparently to John’s liking. He told an interviewer at the time that his semi-solid three‑pickup short-scale ’58 325 – which evidently had been on the shop wall for some time – was “the most beautiful guitar”.
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