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Topic: Rickenbacher Round Neck Lap Steel?? |
Peter Schilske
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Germany
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Posted 13 Oct 2008 11:03 am |
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Hello, just saw this lap steel on ebay. Is this really a original Ricky?
RICKENBACHER ROUND NECK LAP STEEL GUITAR
Item number: 330278530947
All the best
Peter |
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Ron Whitfield
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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 13 Oct 2008 11:33 am
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| Sounds like the 'Spanish' Eletro, the early Bakelite standard plectrum style guitar. |
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Warren Slavin
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Southampton, PA, 18966. USA
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Posted 13 Oct 2008 12:31 pm Rickenbacher Round Neck --
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Here are a couple of pictures of the Rickenbacher
Bakelite Round Neck which was a Spanish Guitar -- Picture of Hal Aloma who also played Very Good Steel.
From the History of Rickenbacher Guitars by Richard Smith, Page 47.
Warren
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Ron Whitfield
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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 13 Oct 2008 1:36 pm Nice pix, Warren
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| Many have long misstated that these were long scale guitars and wanning about how they must sound as a long scale steel of this era, but they are in fact short scale like the B6's. You can see the bridge is substantially forward of the bridge position on a B6, however I'm not sure of the exact scale length, on either. |
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Peter Schilske
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Germany
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Posted 13 Oct 2008 1:58 pm Thanks
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As fast as ever. Thanks for filling the black holes of my steel guitar - knowledge - base.
Kindest regards
Peter |
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Bill Creller
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Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 13 Oct 2008 4:58 pm
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One of the folks from the steel guitar clubs has one of those. This past weekend in Joliet he and I discussed making a substitute neck for it, to use it as a steel.
I guess any scale would work on it that way, since the frets would be on the alternate neck, and I have a few 24.5" fretboards. Hard to say what would be best as a neck material, and what it would sound like. |
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Ron Whitfield
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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 13 Oct 2008 6:54 pm
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| Bill, I'd say something very dense but 'tone'y, like ebony. The neck/body join would be the critcal point, to have it super snug. |
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