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It's also considerably more battered than it looks in that pic... its clearly had a fairly hard life, and when I got it I spent a bit of time touching up a lot of the finish damage - it was quite unsightly, not subtle natural wear - with black Tamiya model paint . It's also lost its fingerboard finish and been refretted with slightly bigger frets, which I like.
It's actually an odd model - in theory, when it was made the only 381 available was the V69, which has the 'vintage' knobs, vintage plexi truss rod cover and Kluson machineheads with no threaded front collar. OK they could all have been changed, but there's an impression on the headstock from this TRC, and no sign of any mark from the longer sharp point of the plexi one or any evidence the tuner holes were drilled out… so I think it's original like this. It did come with Toaster pickups, but I wasn't convinced they were original and I prefer High-Gains anyway on the 6-string models so I changed them. In fact, the High-Gains were originally developed for the 381 in 1969 so it seems wrong to me that the reissue comes with Toasters!
Anyway, I don't want to hijack this thread too much . DarnWeight's one is really nice too, especially as it also has the full-width fingerboard inlays - I think 2008 might be the year they reverted to these, but I could be wrong.
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I agree completely on the 330/360 choice. Obviously they sound similar, but I've never played a 330 that was as nice to play as any of the 360s I've tried.
I saw REM on that tour in Dublin. It had a life changing effect on me as well. I have not used Esso or Exxon since. Unlike the tour I am not particularly green, but Michael was so earnest that I would feel terribly guilty even now.
Interestingly, the 18-year old TRC on mine is pristine white with no sign of yellowing. It wouldn't surprise me that it's spent most of its life in a case though (no fretwear at all).
BTW I love that 381. I prefer the sharp crescent moon shape of the 330 to the rounded 360, but never understood why they only bound the back and not the front of 360s. 330 shape, front binding, sharkfin inlays, and the Roger Rossmeisl "German Carve" on that 381... lush.