List of Rickenbacker products

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Rickenbacker International Corporation

Industry	Musical instruments
Founded	1931
Founder	George Beauchamp and Adolph Rickenbacher
Headquarters	3895 South Main Street, Santa Ana, California, USA
Area served	Global
Key people	George Beauchamp, Adolph Rickenbacher
Products	Lap and Console steel guitars Guitars Bass guitars Electric violins Electric mandolins Electric banjos Amplifiers
Website	Rickenbacker.com

This is a product list of items manufactured by Rickenbacker International Corporation, and predecessor companies, including musical instruments, amplifiers and accessories. The three Rickenbacker Vintage series (B - 1st, V - 2nd and C - 3rd) are listed in numerical order within the relevant product sections, not as a separate grouping, as are Specials and Limited Editions.^[1][2]

• MODEL A "Frying Pan"
  • Model A-22 6 string
  • Model A-22 7 string
  • Model A-25 6 string
  • Model A-24 7 string

• MODEL ES
  • Model ES-16
  • Model ES-17

• Spanish Guitar (standard)
• Ken Roberts Model Spanish Guitar
• Model SP
• Model B Spanish Guitar
• Vibrola Spanish Guitar

• Model 800
• Model 850

• Tenor Guitar

• Model 1999 (4001 Export)

• Model 3000
• Model 3001

• Model 4000
  • Model 4000 FL

• Model 4002 - Studio

• Model 4003w

• Model 4003sw

• Harpo Marx (Electric Harp)
• Electro Violin

R35B

• No. 700
• No. 21-D-1
• C300 (3/4 /D/S)^[53]
• C400
• C430^[54]
• C600 (D/S)^[55]

• 664 Microphone

• No. 300 - Pedal Volume Control for Hawaiian and Spanish guitars

• Pics 14-C
• Speed pics 61-C

• MS-10c
• MS-11C

Pick Display Cabinets, Hawaiian Guitar Stand, Electro Strings, Slides, Amplifier Covers, Amplifier Legs, Guitar Legs, Amplifier Tube kits, Dust Cloth, Phantasmagorion, ^[56]

'Fireglo' (a shaded red), the company's longest running color option, has been made available every year since 1958, with 'Jetglo' (black) and 'Mapleglo' (natural) right behind, being made available every year since 1959. The colors' names usually have official abbreviations (such as 'JG' for 'Jetglo').

• Fireglo (FG) - a sunburst color; deep dark red that fades into a lighter maple center
• Jetglo (JG) - black
• Mapleglo (MG) - Natural
• Walnut (W) - Walnut unlacquered body with natural unpolished maple neck and fretboard. Introduced 2014 (not the same as WAL).^[57]
• Matte Black (MBL)
• Matte Autumnglo (MAG) - a matte sunburst color; deep brown that fades into a yellow center

Non-standard, only available for 650 series:

• Walnut Oil Finish (WAL)

Non-standard, 480/481/483 Series:

• Among the 'special' colors available for the 480 series guitars, AutumnGlo (AUTUM) and Walnut (WAL) are often mistaken as being the same. AutumnGlo on the 480 series represented a flat matte finish, where Walnut designated the same color and burst, but in a traditional lacquered finish.

• Blonde (1954 - 1957)
• Brown (1954 - 1957)
• Green (1954 - 1957)
• Turquoise Blue (1954 - 1957)
• Jet Black (1954 - 1957)
• Autumnglo (1957 - 1983)
• Natural (1957 - 1960)
• White (1957, 1969 - 1999)
• Burgundyglo (1963 - 1983)
• Azureglo (1969 - 1984)
• Ruby Red (1978 - 1984, 2012 - 2017)
• Silver (1978 - 1984)
• Red (1984 - 1997)
• Turquoise (1989 - 2002)
• Midnight Blue (1986 - 2019, mid-1960s 360/6's)

Rickenbacker produced a 'color of the year' for most of their models from 2000 to 2006.^[58]

• 2000: Sea Green
• 2001: Desert Gold
• 2002: Burgundy
• 2003 - 2004: Montezuma Brown
• 2004: Blue Boy
• 2005: Blue Burst
• 2006: Amber Fireglo

Other finish options:

Recently (as of February 2024), special limited edition runs (typically 25 units) of instruments have been commissioned including British Racing Green (BRG), Snowglo and Pillar Box Red.

Additionally, a selection of models were released to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of Rickenbacker in Dark Cherry Metallic (DCM),