Each 660/12TP comes with a gold pickguard engraved with Tom Petty’s name. In addition to the neck upgrades, the 660/12TP also features high-quality Eastern Rock Maple solid-body construction, checked binding, and vintage-accurate pickups, knobs, and tuners. With his signature model, he widened the neck taper for improved playability. Despite his affinity for Rickenbacker’s 12-strings, he always felt that their necks were a bit too small to fit all those strings. Petty reportedly loved small-necked guitars, but with 12-strings, he needs a little more bulk to play accurately. The Rickenbacker 660/12TP (TP stands for Tom Petty) featured top-of-the-line materials and a neck built specifically for Tom’s “demanding” standards. Petty’s signature model was based on the guitar that helped bring Rickenbacker into the mainstream: the fireglo 660/12 featured on the album “Damn the Torpedoes”. In 1991, after years of showing off what Rickenbacker guitars are capable of, the manufacturer finally decided to give Tom Petty his own signature model, the 660/12TP.
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See the full list of Tom Petty guitars and gear below. He’s also played numerous other electric and acoustic models as well. Tom Petty is most known for playing Rickenbacker guitars, however initially, a Fender Stratocaster was his main guitar for much of the first several albums he released with his band the Heartbreakers. I think it’s better that they get used.” Petty bought loads of vintage gear on tour wherever he went and constantly used it onstage. As Petty said in an interview with Vintage Guitar magazine, “If I see something that’s really special, I buy it just because I don’t want it to be lost to the sands of time or be put behind glass or something. If you want the inside scoop as to how he created his iconic sound, here’s a list of the guitars and gear Tom Petty has used over the decades. He was nominated for 18 GRAMMY awards, won three, earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, was inducted into the Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame, and is currently ranked 91st on Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Artists list. Over the years, Petty has cemented himself as one of the most legendary artists and songwriters of the modern era.
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