RIC serial number

Jim Vogan · From: Ohio City, Ohio 45874

I just acquired a 6 string Ric from forum member Jim Cowen, the serial # is c3401. Doe's this mean Jan. 1934? Also for future referance I need to know where to buy replacment keys, just in case. I love this instrument, I can feel the vibrations when I rest my hand on the pickup. Now I need to replace my Jerry Byrd records. I have found a lot of them on the net. Jim Vogan

J D Sauser · From: Wellington, Florida

As far as I know, there is no way to understand or find any coherent order in early Rick's serial number before the company changed to RickenbacKer.
Based on what I remember your guitar looking like on the pictures on e-bay, it was a model offered between 1940 and 1945.
It would also seem that some old style guitars have been made even after their model type was discontinued, out of old parts, on request.
You may want to check the codes on your pots. If they're both original (?), that could give you a clue of the date after which the guitar may have been assembled.
Anyway, it's a nice guitar you bought.

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