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Topic: Price for steel body Ricky ? |
Steve Honum
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Oregon, USA
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Posted 9 Feb 2001 9:54 am |
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Got a line on a nice little 6 string Rickenbacker lap steel. Brown finished steel body. Snap over cover on tuners, plastic fretboard over the steel neck (or sheet metal). Real good condition. Vintage '49-'53, horeshoe pickup. Appears to be all original. It's a nice little guitar but have heard the bakelite models are alot better. Is $400.00 a good price on this piece?
Haere mai |
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mickd
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london,england
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Posted 9 Feb 2001 1:04 pm
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Steve
you can get that sort of thing on Ebay for more like $300 - but then you're buying unseen/unheard, so if you've played this one and you like it maybe its worth the extra to you.
You won't get a Bakelite for anything like $400.
Mick |
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Michael Johnstone
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Sylmar,Ca. USA
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Posted 9 Feb 2001 1:50 pm
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| Pay as little as you can of course - but those things sound damn good. Sweeter and glassier,in my opinion than Bakelite ones. I have a top-of-the-line metal body Rick 8-string Silver Hawiian G-Deluxe in mint condition that I've been offered $1800.00 for. So just like Stringmasters and Bakelites,there are only so many of them and as time goes on people are gonna start hording them.I had a chance in 1977 to buy a 4-neck Stringmaster for $250 but passed because it had no case or legs.DUH............A nice one of those now goes for $2500 -MJ- |
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Andy Alford
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Posted 9 Feb 2001 3:31 pm
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| Its a GREAT sounding guitar.I love mine.If you play it alot it becomes a real important part of your music.I could have sold mine last night for alot more than 300.00.They are well built steels. |
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