Chickenbacker 12 string Tom Petty Edition Make it Stop 

I stumbled upon this channel and god do I love it. Something special about a crotchety old Canadian man yelling at a guitar, just the best thing to watch. Like listening to your grandpa fix stuff. I LOVE IT! Also super informative, which is lovely, keep it up Dave!

I recently bought three from China. And they’re flawless. Everything straight out of the box. Sent them in for a set up. And was told. All three were perfect. Just a string change. The Rickenbacker bass 4001 the 360 and the 12 string ! But Dave. I would still send my Gibsons to you ! Love the videos. I never miss a one. Thank you. Aloha from Oahu Hawaii !!

im never taking in a Chibson again! next video.. Chickenbacker LOL

"I'm just gonna tune it up" < four hours later. >

So a Chinese copy of a Ricky that with a bit of setup is fully playable...! Will wonders never cease?!? Thanks Dave for showing some of us how an expert can almost save anything! Enjoy the good weather - it will not last.

You do have to admit that is a good looking guitar

I see this video is about 4 years old... but it really helped me out today. The way you took multiple measurements and double checked everything to be as accurate as possible and explaining why was so thorough ... I learned something. I will do that on every guitar that I will work on. I am not a luthier, but I can see that I need to buy those tools you used that I don't have. Excellent video and Thank you so much.

When I have to restring my 12 string Ricky I have to check myself into a mental facility afterwards but love it.

Except for the wonky tailpiece it looks actually pretty well made.

When you said the drummer choked, mind went to Spinal Tap. Drummer choked on vomit, but it wasn't his own vomit.✌️

In the upper 80’s here in Chicago. Love it! I have a deep psychotic hatred for winter.

The truss rod cover and tailpiece hurt my soul.

ha ha Make It Stop , that made me Laugh , Thanks for the Movie

That Tim Pretty signature Bichenrocker wasn't a complete disaster, I'm surprised!

Cracks me up how they'll bother to replicate the logo and use the name, but then put an obviously fake tailpiece on them.

Even genuine Rickenbackers are notoriously temperamental, A Chinese one must be frightening.

Awesome intro lol. Long time watcher. Thanx for the free education.

Reminds me of a 1990 B.C. Rich Platinum Series guitar I bought (new) out of desperation and played at a gig (which we got fired from after the first set) when my main guitar and back up got broken. I had no time for changing my presets so I played it thru what I had. It sounded like cats fighting. Now referred to as...The Catostraster! Lol. Also, I knew a guy who I played with back in the day and he became a crackhead for a while and he kept pawning stuff to support it. He had a Rick bass and he would pawn it, get it back, pawn it etc. until finally he let it go for good. I saw him after those times and asked him whatever happened to his Rick and he told me the story of how he pawned it for crack. Ah! I said, so you lost The Crackenbacher! Too effin funny!

Oh! Chickenbacjer. 😂 Doh! NOW I get it. Thanks.

Happy 2024 New Year, Dave

I actually have a Chickenbacker, & if that’s all you had to do to it, their quality has come WAY up since I got mine! I think you expect a little too much from these guitars that mostly cost around $200 shipped. They are what they are, & to be honest, that one actually looks pretty decent. Even seemed like it might sound good, just from the little bit of twanging on it ya did. Guy prolly paid around $300 for that, when a real one is prolly about $3-4 grand. I understand why there is a market for these, but if I had to do it over, I wouldn’t

"Gooched things" LOL

Iv'e had American Rickenbacker 12's come in for strings, that was an air of reassignment really!!

OMFG GOOCHED THINGS INTRO IS AMAZING!!!

This thing gave me goochbumps

Beef stew mac and cheese sounds delicious. Maybe he has a franchise in his future.

I know, I know. I've got one too. The light decision Dave. May you lest in peace !

Hey Dave, I love your videos and look forward to them. I had a dream the other night that you changed the paper on your workbench but thanks to your next video I realized it was just a dream. Sigh.....

Dave's remake of Nightmare on Gooch Street.

I spent most of good Friday re stringing and tuning my Chickenbacker 360/12 Thinking about employing a full time roadie to look after the bloody thing for me!

Tom Petty is rolling in his grave screaming "what the flying fuck is this?!?!?!?!?!?"

Had FB do the same thing to a group I had...30,000+ members...one morning, just gone and never a response as to why. I kept it moderated closely too to make sure no FB rules were broken. So will always remain a mystery and I didn't bother putting up a new group page, fed up with FB. On another note, I am waiting on tuners to finish up a 12 string project from parts guitars I had laying around. Mid 60's Baldwin 335 copy body with a Vox 12 string neck, P90's, trapeze tailpiece (and like Ric used to do, maybe still does, use one slot for 2 strings), original Baldwin bridge that has nylon saddles with serrations on each saddle so string placement is adjustable which makes it perfect for 12 stings instead of the original 6. Chinese electronics...So all in it will be under a $100...probably give the guitar to one of my grandkids. Fun stuff!

I like your teminalisist!!!

Gino has more than one famous rock and roll moment under his belt, but the last one I am familiar with came the night before the release of the Goddo DVD at The Mayfair in Ottawa. The band is in their lodging for the night and beverages are being consumed. The bathroom is occupado, and Gino can't wait. It's a ground floor room, and it's night time, who's gonna see him draining the weasel right? He goes outside, walks behind a tree, falls into a hole, and breaks his leg! Greg and Doug showed up though. We watched The Pretty Bad Boys Return and then headed next door for pints and autographs. Good times

Killer dwarfs are coming to my city next month. Gonna check them out!

Did you have your last dance with Mary Jane before you work on that guitar

it's 9/21 here in NE, and we do in fact, have another 2 Summerlike days coming up.86 is tomorrow's/today's forecast. and yes, Winter does SUCK.

Here we go, Dave doing the samething again. 😂😂😂

Can you tell if this could be strung the "rick" way with the high strings after the lows? Probably would require a new nut, but would it work with the bridge?

What would you recommend for to upgrade machine head tuners on chickenbacker?

Please enable video subtitles. I live in Brazil and would love to understand what you say! Thank you

That intro had me laughing so hard

Great vids Dave. Always learning something from your vids

That is a Rockingbetter. I think they were a Jay Turser guitar. I saw one in L.A. The hack "R" tailpiece is the clue. From what I understand, Jay Turser got the snot sued out of them.

Looks good. They’re 300 bucks. A lot cheaper to take it to a repair guy and have him make it right

Make wall art out of it ,ya can't play it anyway without a complaint from the Byrd's. It's a petty complaint.

You the man Dave

This may sound like a dumb question, however I also believe there stupid question are the ones you don’t ask... How does one zero out the caliper to get the proper fret measurement? I’ve never used the sliding rule end to measure anything I’ve only used the jaw side or the finger side or whatever the exact term for that side is.

"It don't play very good at all"--so it's just like a real Rickenbacker!

Dave’s World of Gooched Things!

I've got a friend who owns a guitar store and someone can in with a Chibson Jimmy Page 1275, wanted $200.00 for it. He explained the he couldn't sell a counterfeit or tribute guitar, so no deal. He called me and asked if I'd be interested. So I said yeah, I'd take a look, he said he wanted to trade it for an Epiphone 12 string and fifty bucks. . I got there with my Samick 12 string and case. I asked my friend to do a once over. He said the necks actually looked good, he tuned it and checked the intonation. I offered the guy my Samick and $25.00, he took it. I had my friend do a set up a few frets needed leveling, and restring it. He said it's close, as good as an Epiphone 1275. So I had about $80.00 cash into the guitar. I wound up replacing the 6 string bridge, the tuners, and the nuts. Funny thing is, I have a friend who plays in a few bands and she has the real Gibson. She told me that most people regret buying these after a few months, but they are incredibly difficult to sell and not take a bath on. I got over the thrill in about two months.

I meant to ask before, where did you get that digital caliper that will do fret height? I have two, and neither one will do that.

When you buy these, you'll end up spending quite a lot just to make it playable. Pickups, bridge, and tuners, at least. Maybe even a fret job. I've got a couple, One was decent, the others, wall hangers.

It's funny. Comment starts with saying guitar has shitty fretwork...yet setup was done without any changes to frets. That means ..I assume..that frets were not shitty at all?

Drummer choke is so real!

So what do you think of the guitar over all?

What name brand calipers are you using please ... Thnx ...

So what did you do with that Randy rhoads chibson????

Beautiful guitar,sounds nice. Is that a two piece pick guard or is it broken?🤔

I kind of liked that one. Didn't seem like too much trouble...which is a miracle for any electric 12. Good set of pickups maybe and boom. The real ones are obscenely expensive..

Love the vids. Yes the weather has been great, I live north of Guelph. Have you ever worked on any of the newer Chinese gretsch's??

Wow your good yea? Lol ima have to send u some of mine.

I would like to see a video where the truss rod is broken and you fix that?

Truss rod or no truss rod?

Come on Dave. An instrument is an instrument. Don’t mess with the dream. We all buy crap from time to time. And I was gonna send you my chickenbacker bass !! And my ol’ Ovation Magnum II 1974 bass

Dave where did you get those telecaster trays??

Rickenbacker 12string guitars are supposed to be strung low-high. The one in your video is high-low. I wonder if that's the cause of any problems.

It was “limited” to whomever wanted one. I feel bad for the 12 people that bought that thing.

Great intro ! :-)

If you string with octave string in bottom position you get a much more kingly jangle tone

Did Tom Petty actually sign that?

Like Dave

Is there a manufacturer out there whose guitars are decent right out of the box, ones that are within the means of a working stiff?

Is the neck wider on the Chickenbacker than a normal Ric neck? If so, it may be worth having just for that reason alone...I never could get used to that extreme narrow finger spacing on a Ric, something Ric refuses to change though people have complained about it for years. I have a 60's 360 12 Japanese copy that is very accurate except for an 1/8th inch wider neck...plays better for me than any Ric I have owned and plenty jangly.

@dave Wish you had played a few chords after you fiddled with the string height. The clone is not a neck-through as the original 660, wrong tailpiece. Seen some MIC 660 TP's with the wrong pickup spacing. A difficult body to build IMO. Originals of these go for 8 grand. Better strings are night and day for these MIC units. There's no video of this particular 660/12 solid body clone I can find to hear what the guitar sounds like after set-up. The semi-hollow "cat's eye" ones of the Ric 12 seen on YT sound awful. And the people playing them in the videos can't tell the difference.

Man, that looks like a mess. It's hard enough for _Rickenbacker_ to get a Ric 12 right, let alone a Chinese copy.I could use that truss rod cover though, for my 360/12. I have the old style that gets bitten into by the strings.

The STRINGS ARE ON WRONG. For this model of Rick starting with the 620 THE LOW STRING IS FIRST opposite to the usual high string on top it should be on the bottom. That's Rickenbacker's design for this series of 12's. Look closely at the string arrangement on the originals of these.

If that was a proper Ric, that colour would look gorgeous.

Chickenbacker....😂😂😂

When I was a kid, we used to call all Japanese stuff shit and that’s when they were more than half of the American made counter part. The Chinese version is about ten percent and they have it down. We’re in denial and that means trouble

Kentucky Fried Chickenbacker

Where can I buy one of these?

Amazing weather in your parts. Millions of people on the other hand are getting bombarded with floods, man made weather events, and earthquakes one right after another. There is not a single weather event that cannot be induced by electromagnetic frequencies, and aerosol dispersion. People are dying, being forced from their homes, having their property bought up for pennies on the dollar, and are never able to return to these places again due to all the new ordinances, insurances not covering flood damage, and numerous other laws being put into place making it impossible for them to return. Research the patents ALL of these countries have on weather manipulation, and all of the corporations admittedely spraying us on a daily basis with strontium, aluminum, barium, bunker fuel, lithium, carbon dust, nanoparticulates, and many other things. Feeling like crap? Yeah, we all are, there is a reason. These storms can be guided using electromagnetic frequencies using nextrad radar, and many other land AND water based equipment, which pulse us with EMFs all day, and are extremely harmful to ALL life, and can (and is) being used to manipulate us in every way conceivable. All of this is patented and documented. Research agenda 2030 and 2050, and see how these disasters coincidentally occur along the lines of the proposed (construction is already under way) of the bering sea international railroad. Before all of you brainwash zombies respond with "its climate change" everything I said can be easily verified with minimal effort. Including the fact that farmers have been doing this from their barns since 1894 using balloons. If you are too lazy to do any of that, how about you put down your phones for a few minutes, and freaking look up.

Asweome video. It may be fake, but sure looks good. Found it on good old ali Express for $328. $428 with case. Just had to look.

I bought one of these and mine was nothing like the picture that I chose it from !!! It came as a short scale with a neck more like a cricket bat than a guitar tried to contact the supplier …..gave up in the end !

The shop I fix gee-tahs in has the 6-string version chxbacker in Grey Poupon gold. Its in about the same condition as your Petty. People always ask me if I'll be doing a set-up on it. aaaa...no!

The Chickenbakers is a music group... you can find them on facebook img.discogs.com/tGMPvKYRmwd90MnDuZPnm15mhi4=/fit-in/600x612/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-13774926-1560848808-8906.jpeg.jpg

After all that time watching you work on this "masterpiece"...you could have at least played the thing!

What disrespect for the spirit of Tom Petty; on another note, please do more Chinese guitars purely for the entertainment value. I would play the Breakdown on that bad boy.

If I'm not mistaken, the strings seem to be switched. Meaning the high octave string on the bottom. Not, on the top like every other 12 string. Is this a secret to the Rick sound? Please Sir, about the secret. :)

Seriously- you never plugged it in???????????????

It's a 12 string, of course you were crying a little bit. I'm ain't gonna blame you for that.

Time for a sandwich.

plus, real rickenbacker 12-strings have the heavy string on top...and the octave-up string below...this one is reversed :)

I have a Korean made Schecter bass. I tuned it a month ago and it only lost a quarter tone in that time. Very stable. Just buy American or used from Korea, Japan, or Europe.

I would have removed the high strings and just have it as a 6 string until the nut and frets are proper then add back the high strings.

i just spent way too long lmao over "chickenbacker"

The AvE of guitars

A nice guitar. Sorry Mr Petty: The first thing that came into my mind with it being a 12-string was the guitar intro to 'Mr Tambourine Man'.

I don't know why, but you remind me of George Carlin if he worked on guitars...