| Author |
Topic: Hilo frying pan? |
Russ Young
From:
Seattle, Washington, USA
|
Posted 30 May 2005 9:07 am |
|
Is anyone familiar with this Hilo Hawaiian Guitars "frying pan?"
"Hilo" was a name used on Weissenborn-style guitars built in the 1930s (by Oscar Schmidt?), but I suspect the only connection is the name. |
|
|
 |
J D Sauser
From:
Wellington, Florida
|
Posted 31 May 2005 1:17 pm
|
|
I must say this one left me stunned. It is without a doubt the best Frypan copy I have ever seen. The neck however look like it may not be hollow like the early Rickenbacher Frypans, so I wonder how that thing sings... Only seems to need for one of Ricks new pickups!
... J-D. |
|
|
|
Gerald Ross
From:
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
|
Posted 31 May 2005 3:50 pm
|
|
I've seen these types of frypans many times at both HSGA Joliet and Aloha International in Winchester, IN.
People there said that these are "Guy Choi"(sp?) frypans. Either Japanese or Chinese copies. You can identify them by the plastic tortoiseshell colored back plate.
Someone help me with this one.
------------------
Gerald Ross
'Northwest Ann Arbor, Michigan's King Of The Hawaiian Steel Guitar'
Gerald's Fingerstyle Guitar Website
Board of Directors Hawaiian Steel Guitar Association
|
|
|
|
Bill Creller
From:
Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
|
Posted 1 Jun 2005 4:59 pm
|
|
That is a post-war frypan, open back, solid neck. Rickenbacker sold parts to the guy named Choi, but still made them under Rick logo. I had a 1956 catalog of Rick stuff which had the A22 frypan in it, and at that date it had a black plastic fretboard instead of the raised frets in the casting.
Bobby Ingano likes the solid neck more than any other guitar, and he has had a lot of instruments. It's unclear what Rickenbacher and Choi had going, and some people figured that all solid necks were Choi. I had never heard till now about the Hilo brand. The solid necks had a decal on the headstock instead of the metal Rick plate. They were made in long and short scale, and Derrick Mau has a long scale. I made him an aluminum bottom plate for it, and the tone is different with the plate off, or with it on, or with the original brown bakelite bottom cover. Who knows what that is all about (???)[This message was edited by Bill Creller on 01 June 2005 at 06:06 PM.] |
|
|
|
Jeff Au Hoy
From:
Honolulu, Hawai'i
|
Posted 1 Jun 2005 5:06 pm
|
|
| I like the taste of bach choi. |
|
|
|
Bill Creller
From:
Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
|
Posted 1 Jun 2005 5:09 pm
|
|
| Jeff, you need to come to Winchester, and have fun with us. |
|
|
|
