Owned by Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi!

This 15 1/4-inch thin-body (1 1/2 inches) convertible twelve-string guitar weighs 8.50 lbs., with a nut width of 1 9/16 inches and a scale length of 24 3/4 inches. Maple body single-bound on the bottom edge, with a single-bound "cat's-eye" or slash soundhole, maple and walnut neck, bound rosewood fretboard with 21 frets and triangular sparkle crushed pearl inlays extending completely across fretboard. Individual Kluson Deluxe tuners with oval metal buttons. Two Rickenbacker chrome bar "toaster" pickups with outputs of 8.95k and 10.45k and a "comb" string converter to disengage six of the twelve strings. Two-piece split-level white plastic pickguard. Five controls (two volume, two tone, and one blend control) plus three-way selector switch. Seven-sided black plastic knobs with metal tops with black lettering. Rickenbacker bridge and Rickenbacker "R" tailpiece. "Rick-O-Sound" stereo and "Standard" jack inputs. This guitar is in near mint condition, with only a minimum amount of belt buckle scarring on the back and a few little marks. Housed in its original Rickenbacker silver hardshell case with blue plush lining (8.50). One of only ninety-two Model 366/12 convertibles in Fireglo made in 1968.

This guitar belonged to Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi. With a card (measuring 7 1/4 x 3 3/4 inches) printed at top: "Richie Sambora" and inscribed: "Rickenbacker 12 string Convertable [sic]/Used on the 'Crush' album on/the song 'Older.'/Richie Sambora." Together with a picture of him holding the guitar.

"Rickenbacker's 'string converter' guitars first appeared in 1966. Inventor James E Gross came up with a converter 'comb' mounted to the body of a 12-string that could be manipulated to remove from play all or some of the second strings of each pair...Gross wrote in his explanatory letter to Rickenbacker of the converter's ability to allow single strings to be used for bass notes while retaining unison pairs for the higher strings 'for a dirty "twang" or mandolinish sound'. He also said that the converter made the 12-string easier to tune 'by starting with the six and then tuning the secondary six to the first six', and that it could facilitate a quick change from 12-string to six-string (and back) at the flip of a switch...Rickenbacker went ahead with the converter -- 'Now two guitars in one!' said the publicity -- and in their July 1966 pricelist showed three models with the chrome converter 'comb' fitted to the body: the 336/12 (in other words a convertible 330/12) at $529.50; the 366/12 (360/12) at $579.50; and the 456/12 (450/12) at $339.50. In each case these were priced between $45 and $55 more than the non-convertible versions" (Tony Bacon and Paul Day, The Rickenbacker Book, p. 45).