Rickenbacker only ever made 6 Capri solid top 325 (5/8 scale, hollow-body electric guitars and all were made in a batch at the start of the guitar’s existence in 1958. The 1958 Rickenbacker solid top 325 is certainly one of the most rare guitars ever made. Hailed as the holy grail of electric guitars by most collectors The Rickenbacker 325 Solid Top early prototype model, exactly like John Lennon’s historic Hamburg model that he used from 1962 at the birth of the beatles in Hamburg, to the cavern in Liverpool, to Ed Sullivan in front of 100 million viewers! all the way to 1980 when he even used it on his last recording session the day before his tragic death.
