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Topic: Help IDing a vintage Rickenbacher |
John Rosett
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Missoula, MT
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Posted 20 Oct 2010 8:19 pm |
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A friend sent me this email:
"My dad gave me a Rickenbacher (yes, 'bacher' not 'backer') lap steel. Speckled gray. I looked for it all over the place and see nothing exactly like it. There are a few similar. Maybe a knockoff? He wants me to send it to him and I was going to insure it. Anyway, now that I can't find it anywhere, it makes me curious. It looks similar to Rickenbacker Hawaiian model 100 from the 1950s."
I'd like to help her, but I'm no expert, so I thought that I'd turn it over to some real experts.
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Ben Elder
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La Crescenta, California, USA
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Posted 21 Oct 2010 9:54 pm
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Like this?
('50s, 100-series; long-since sold.)
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J. Wilson
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Manitoba, Canada
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Posted 22 Oct 2010 6:59 am
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I have seen one of these on ebay. Looks to me like it's been repainted with this texture at some point...
It sure doesn't look pre-war, which is the Rickenbacher period (vs.Rickenbacker)... but the older boys on here would know about this best.
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Brad Bechtel
From:
San Francisco, CA
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Posted 22 Oct 2010 8:32 am
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Without pictures, it's impossible to say what you have based on the description so far. I agree with Mr. Elder that it could be a Model 100, but it might just as well be any of a number of models.
Please post a photo so we can help identify it.
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