White Bakelite Rickenbacher

Steven Cearley · From: Portland, Oregon, USA

Someone has emailed me regarding a trade. He has a white bakelite rickenbacher with red knobs, no date. Anyone seen one of these? Would this be a student model and not worth as much as the other style bakelites? Thanks, STEVE

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Rick Aiello · From: Berryville, VA USA

It is either an Ace ... or an Academy.

Both are student models and generally go off in the $250 - $300 range on Ebay.

The Academys have horseshoe magnet pickups and are flat out GREAT especially for the $$$. String thru the body, molded nut and bridge ...

The Ace has that molded handrest ... and although some of the ebay sellers say "theirs" has a horseshoe pickup under there ... the couple I have seen just had conventional style pickups (or I would have bought them).

I have seen brown, red and white ones ... I even saw one that was blue cast Al ... still kickin' myself for not gettin' that one.

Here are my two ... my Ace is a "leftover" Academy that got an Ace sticker put on it ...

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[This message was edited by Rick Aiello on 17 September 2003 at 05:30 AM.]

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