Lot n° 14
Estimation :
1500 - 2500
EUR
RICKENBACKER - SILVER HAWAIIAN LAP STEEL 6 electric strings - Lot 14
RICKENBACKER - SILVER HAWAIIAN LAP STEEL 6 electric strings
Brand: RICKENBACKER
Model / Provenance: SILVER HAWAIIAN LAP STEEL 6 strings electric / USA
Serial number: D1184
Year: Late 30's (1938/39)
Weight : 7,3 Kgs (this lap steel has been filled with a kind of wood paste, certainly to avoid feedback)
Provenance: Maurice SUISSA Collection
Body and neck :
Body: Semi-hollow, stamped metal, presumably filled with wood pate
Color: Nickel plated finish
Fittings: Original chrome-plated metal, backelite bridge, table-inserted strings
Knobs: 2 chrome domes (replacement)
Electronics: 1 original horseshoe "SC" pickup, jack output on bass side, 1 Vol, 1 Tone, potentiometers and capa have been replaced (it seems that a tone has been added over time, making it a 1937)
General condition front and rear body: Original 90%, very nice and very good condition, slight traces of play.
Handle:
Logo: "Rickenbacher Electro" Los Angeles underlined with lightning bolts and "RE" emblem
Neck/Fingerboard: Metal / black dot markings
Saddle: 53.6 MM
Serial no.: D1184 stamped above the headstock
Tuning: Original 3X3 Kluson style in good condition
Color : Nickel plated finish
General condition front/rear neck : ORIGINAL, VERY GOOD VINTAGE CONDITION
Case : Non-original guitar gigbag
Observations:
A fine example of a Rickenbacker Silver Hawaiian Lap steel Guitar worthy descendant of the "Frying pan". One of Ricken' best-known classics, from 1937/40. Nickel-plated metal, with a deep-drawn hollow body. The pre-war 1 1/2" inch (38.5mm) "horseshoe" pickup is patented. By mid-1937, the expected patent had not yet been approved. It was finally validated in August of that same year! This pickup is still considered one of the best-sounding pickups ever produced, and gives these pre-war Rickenbackers their distinctive spirit and ambience.
(Current tuning: E B E G# B E)
MAGNIFICENT, BRIGHT, IN VERY GOOD CONDITION, POWERFUL, NOT 100% ORIGINAL BUT SUPERB SOUND.
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