The Painted Player Guitar Co.
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Deluxe Edition
Rickenbacker 330/6 (RIC Specification) – £2,299
Crafted using Rickenbacker’s stunning 330/6 (6-string), this is an excellent combination of Rickenbacker’s build quality and The Painted Player’s attention to detail to create an incredible piece of guitar art, featuring a set of original Hi-Gain pickups.
Supreme Edition
Rickenbacker 330/6 (Paul Weller Specification) – £2,499
The most accurate tribute to Weller’s original guitar, the Supreme Edition incorporates the original Gibson USA Humbucker modification in the neck position that Weller had done to open up the tonal range and versatility of his stunning “WHAAM!” Rickenbacker.
Ultimate Edition
Historic Rickenbacker 330 – (contact us)
Through our back catalogue of Historic instruments, kept under constant lock and key, we can provide you with an original Rickenbacker 330/6 from all manner of periods throughout the brand’s long-running history. From 80’s stalwarts to 60’s museum pieces - pricing varies on application but this truly is the definition of the ‘Ultimate Edition’ and is an absolute must for the dynamic and faithful collector.
THE PAUL WELLER WHAAM RICKENBACKER 330 TRIBUTE
In a time when the Mods were king and pop-art ruled over a ‘swinging’ London, few guitars have embodied the exact feeling and dynamics of those times than Mod-God Paul Weller's stunning "WHAAM!" pop-art guitar. Crafted using a beautiful Rickenbacker 330, the guitar was custom modified to feature the original Rickenbacker 360 pickup in the bridge position and a Gibson Humbucker in the neck position to create a far more intriguing and certainly more versatile guitar for Weller to use in the studio and on stage. The guitar featured in several iconic photographs of the period, most classically pictured behind Paul in a stunning photo shoot that revealed more of the guitar’s custom detailing, including a custom crafted clear scratchplate (allowing on-lookers to view the guitar's internal controls).
Of course, despite the custom modifications made to the guitar, it is of course the amazing artwork by pop-artist Roy Lichtenstein that will always allow this classic guitar to endure in the memory. Taken directly from Lichtenstein’s 1963 masterpiece, “WHAAM!”, based on a page from a 1962 comic book, the artwork on Weller’s guitar is truly iconic, one of the first examples of pop art in the artistic world.
