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Topic: Silver Hawaiian Open up |
Jeff Highland
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New South Wales, Australia
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Posted 23 Oct 2021 12:41 pm |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hON0gxPpP4
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John Dahms
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Perkasie, Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 23 Oct 2021 7:06 pm
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In the interest of clarifying- serial numbers on early Rics are not yet fully sorted out but there are some things that can be noted about them. The Prefix A then the number was used on frying pans (the first Ric model steel). Some frying pans had B prefix numbers. B is also seen on very early Bakelite steels quickly followed by a C prefix. Most Bakelites had C numbers. The highest C number I have seen is in the C3700s. That guitar was sold with an amp that can be dated to spring 1942.
Model 100 Silver Hawaiian serial numbers have a D prefix. I have an early one from 1937 numbered D44.
E prefix numbers were used on model 59 guitars stamped from steel.Serial numbers were hand stamped one digit at a time and appear to be consecutive within each model. Post war they dropped the serial numbers.
The "Rickenbacher" headstock plate became a decal somewhere around the time of D1500 (about the time of WW2). The Mallory cap shown in the video must have been used for a period of several years as I have seen one on a model 59 with newspaper (for sound dampening) with a date of Aug. 1945 in it.
There was a post discussing the black tar-like substance found in some guitars several years back on the forum and maybe it can be searched and found.
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Rick Aiello
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Berryville, VA USA
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Posted 24 Oct 2021 4:16 am
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| It's a creosote/pitch material ... don't chip any off or your house will smell like a fence ... I had to get at a jack once ... chiseled out a chunk ... put some silicone on it to act like a bandage ... ha,ha ... it's in two of my Silvers and my A25 ... Which are my best sounding Rickys |
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Glenn Wilde
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California, USA
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Posted 24 Oct 2021 6:10 pm
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| Rick Aiello wrote: |
| It's a creosote/pitch material ... don't chip any off or your house will smell like a fence ... I had to get at a jack once ... chiseled out a chunk ... put some silicone on it to act like a bandage ... ha,ha ... it's in two of my Silvers and my A25 ... Which are my best sounding Rickys |
Tone Creosote, that's the secret! |
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Joe Cook
From:
Lake Osoyoos, WA
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Posted 25 Oct 2021 5:27 am
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| More importantly, why is it there in the first place? I wonder if my NS and D16 have it? |
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