Gear

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  • Updated: Feb 23, 2010
  • Current Endorsement Relationships

  GIBSON Electric Guitars
  GODIN Acoustic Guitars
  D’ADDARIO Strings
  TRAYNOR Amplifiers

  • Updated: Feb 23, 2010
  • Stage Gear

  Electric guitars: GIBSON Les Paul “Classic” 60’s reissue, chambered (with 500T ceramic magnet pickups). Gibson ES-345 (stock); Gibson 6 / 12 doubleneck.
  Electric acoustic: Godin Spectrum.
  Favourite studio acoustic: Yamaha LS-36.

  AMPS: Traynor Custom Special 50 [single 12"] and 100H [4 x 12]. Celestion G12 speakers.

  Pedalboard: electric, VOX Tonelab SE.
  For acoustic, TC Electronics G Natural.

  D’Addario strings on all. On electrics, .010 to .052, on acoustic, EJ21 [jazz light, .012 to .052].

  • Updated: Oct 27, 2009
  • This and that…

  Rik uses a regular size heavy pick, and also has acrylic nails on his right hand.

  Favourite studio guitars also include Yamaha L-55 acoustics, 6 & 12, Pacifica electrics [custom shop, with Seymour Duncans], AEX 1500, Laskin handmade classical, and a Fender [customized] Esquire Japanese reissue with Barden pickups.

  In 2007, DEAN reissued a limited edition Flying V from the Triumph Allied Forces era.

  Rik also owns a Baby Sitar electric, and a collection of Yamaha SLG ’silent’ guitars, as well as a Godin Grand Concert; and a full range of archtop electrics from Yamaha, including a custom AES-2000, an SA-2200, two AES-1500’s, an original issue AEX-1500 [and his Kiyoshi Minakuchi custom shop favourite, "Jackie"].