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Topic: Rickenbacher panda - years of production |
John Groover McDuffie
From:
LA California, USA
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Posted 1 Feb 2012 3:42 pm |
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| What is the range of years in which the bakelite "panda" Rickenbacher lap steels were made? Are serial # records available to pin down the year? |
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Jerome Hawkes
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Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 1 Feb 2012 3:52 pm
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1935-1955ish is where the vast majority fall, though I read where they stayed in the Ric catalog til 1973.
They are pretty easy to date within a 2 year range based on certain features specific to that run of instruments. The bodies were probably made at one time in a large production run.
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Rick Aiello
From:
Berryville, VA USA
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Posted 1 Feb 2012 4:25 pm
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Some good info on the prewars can be found here ...
http://www.horseshoemagnets.com/_sgg/m5m5_1.htm
Click on PreWar Bakelites ...
Postwars didn't have serial numbers ... But can easily be ID'ed by features like Logo, tailpiece, headstock cover, etc ...
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Ron Whitfield
From:
Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 1 Feb 2012 5:10 pm
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| Please, PLEASE, PLEASE stop calling these pandas! |
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Garry Vanderlinde
From:
CA
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Posted 1 Feb 2012 9:08 pm
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| Ron Whitfield wrote: |
| Please, PLEASE, PLEASE stop calling these pandas! |
I don't get it Ron, why not "Panda?"
Well how do you feel about the name “Tuxedo”?...
Here’s my "Pand..oops..." and his feline friend "Shamu". 
Lots of good info there at:
http://www.horseshoemagnets.com/_sgg/m5m5_1.htm
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Ron Whitfield
From:
Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 1 Feb 2012 9:50 pm
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It's like calling Shamu, fuzzface. It's just not right, and must stop immediately!  |
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Mitch Druckman
From:
Arizona, USA
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Posted 2 Feb 2012 10:50 am
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| I don't understand why some players find the Panda nickname so offensive. I think it quickly identifies the guitar. It's no worse than calling a guitar a Frypan. |
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Ron Whitfield
From:
Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 2 Feb 2012 1:05 pm The panda must die!
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It's akin to pulling a prank on the Indian Chief in your avatar by putting talc powder in the sound horn and blowing it his face. Just shouldn't be done. I don't like calling a frypan that or pancake, but those names have decades behind them, plus they never had a designation other than Axx, plus everybody calls it a frypan and turning that tide is impossible for now. Panda was recently coined by someone being too cute, maybe ignorant of it's proper designation, and possibly not even a player. It's a Bakelite/B6 etc. This is not a perfect world, but let's not go out of our way to make it even less so with unnecessary silliness. Think of the sanctity!
We now return you to your normal programming. |
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Morgan Scoggins
From:
Georgia, USA
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Posted 2 Feb 2012 1:39 pm
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Political correctness has run amuck!!
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Jerome Hawkes
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Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 2 Feb 2012 1:40 pm
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when i took my '38 chrome panel B6 over to a friends house, his son FREAKED out when he saw me pull it out - he said - "THAT'S BATMAN'S GUITAR!!!" and watched me play it all night. its odd, i would have never thought about it, but the chrome panel B6s do look really Sci-Fi...esp for 1930's
....so, we can now call the CHROME bakelites.....BATMAN'S
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Ron Whitfield
From:
Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 2 Feb 2012 3:22 pm Occupy Steel Guitars!
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| Morgan Scoggins wrote: |
| Political correctness has run amuck!! |
Yes, it has.
Fortunately, we're talking about steel guitars, where sanity is trying to retain it's foothold instead of allowing it to run away mindlessly like PC did.
Jerome, Batman of course is cool, but I hope you didn't warp that youngster's mind! |
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Bill Creller
From:
Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 2 Feb 2012 7:45 pm
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They are great guitars, no matter what the nick name  |
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