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Topic: Unusual Frypan on Denver Craigslist |
Jack Hanson
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San Luis Valley, USA
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Glenn Wilde
From:
California, USA
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Posted 5 Nov 2019 4:58 am |
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| Can't confirm but it sure looks old to me. Those tuners are a nightmare though. I would imagine Rickenbacher would stop them pretty quickly from building that unless it was licenced, then there would be patent nos. stamped into it. An odd one, interesting for sure. |
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Jerry Wagner
From:
California, USA
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Posted 5 Nov 2019 3:29 pm
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| Interesting guitar! It looks like a long-scale. If it really checks out to be from the mid-1930's, it's a very early knock-off of Rickenbacker frypans. I'm pretty sure Rickenbacker never made any 8-string frypans, although they started making 7-string short-scale frypans in 1934. If you're not really planning to play it much, just play it as-is. To make it tune easier, those tuners could possibly be replaced with Grover mini-rotomatics or Steinberger gearless tuners from StewMac. Either would be OK for tunings that have a high "E" string. With the top string tuned higher than "E", it's probably best to use the Grover mini-rotomatics or something similar, if they'll fit the existing tuner spacing. |
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Steven Black
From:
Gahanna, Ohio, USA
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Posted 10 Nov 2019 2:11 pm Fry pan steel guitar
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| That is a knockoff fry pan headstock is different. |
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Glenn Wilde
From:
California, USA
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Posted 21 Nov 2019 5:06 pm
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| There is actually another one of these for sale on Reverb, from the private collection of Ben Harper no less. He don't know what it is either. |
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Daniel McKee
From:
Corinth Mississippi
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Posted 21 Nov 2019 5:35 pm
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| it says on reverb that the scale is 29 1/2 |
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Glenn Wilde
From:
California, USA
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Posted 22 Nov 2019 5:01 am
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| This is now on eBay if anyone's after it. |
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Regan Branch
From:
Alabama, USA
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Regan Branch
From:
Alabama, USA
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Posted 23 Nov 2019 10:45 am
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| Has a particular warm sound to it that's actually really pleasant. |
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