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Topic: Identify Rickenbacher |
Robert Moeckly
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California, USA
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Posted 5 Jan 2012 11:15 am |
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Is anyone able to identify the Rickenbacker? The photo is not good, but maybe someone can identify it for me.
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Michael Lee Allen
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Portage Park / Irving Park, Chicago, Illinois
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Posted 5 Jan 2012 11:26 am
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SW-8...
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Robert Moeckly
From:
California, USA
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Posted 5 Jan 2012 11:56 am Thank you!
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| Fantastic. Now I need to determine a price. It is in perfect shape with original case. I am guessing it is from the late 50's vintage |
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b0b
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 5 Jan 2012 12:03 pm
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I have one from mid-60s but it doesn't have the head cover. It's red. I think I paid about $400 for it. Great sounding instrument.
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Bill Creller
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Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 5 Jan 2012 12:04 pm
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| Late 50s or even into the 60s.(?) The frypan pictured in the catalog has a black fretboard, and not cast-in frets, which is toward the last of the frypans sold. |
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Robert Moeckly
From:
California, USA
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Posted 5 Jan 2012 1:08 pm Thanks!
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| Thanks to all! |
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Jerome Hawkes
From:
Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 5 Jan 2012 1:21 pm
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i have the 6 string, 1st version (1953-4) which didnt have the big chrome control plate like yours - i paid $400 for mine in exc cond - wonderful RICK sound.
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Michael Lee Allen
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Portage Park / Irving Park, Chicago, Illinois
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Posted 5 Jan 2012 1:33 pm
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Catalog page is circa 1955-56. The A-22 shown is the so-called "reissue Frypan".
The OP's guitar is an eight string, count the tuner buttons and strings.
b0b, if your red one is a six string it's part of the later 100 series and it never had a headstock cover...
Above is Rickenbacker's last steel guitar catalog that they used throughout the 1960's.
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b0b
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 5 Jan 2012 1:49 pm
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Right. Mine wasn't made with a head cover. It's appearently a Model 100. The great tone is due to routing the strings through the body at the bridge end, and of course the horseshoe magnet pickup.
I also have a 780 Console pedal steel, as pictured above. It doesn't sound as good as the lap steel, IMHO.
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Jerome Hawkes
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Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 5 Jan 2012 2:51 pm
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I always assumed those 50's + pickups were faux horseshoe. They do sound good and Ricky.
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Ron Whitfield
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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 5 Jan 2012 3:20 pm Who's the mystery lady?
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Is this Lovey Lui?
I have the real/full photo and have always wanted to confirm her identity. It's from a photo shoot that included other prominent Hawaiian steelers promoting Rickenbacker steels. |
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b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 5 Jan 2012 10:47 pm
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| Jerome Hawkes wrote: |
| I always assumed those 50's + pickups were faux horseshoe. They do sound good and Ricky. |
Not faux at all. My first lap steel was the same model. I shipped it via Greyhound round about 1972 and they broke the horseshoe piece. The pickup was useless without it. No output. It's a magnet all right, not just a hand rest.
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