Electro Lap Steel Electric Guitar, made by Rickenbacker (1962)
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Electro Model Lap Steel Electric Guitar, made by Rickenbacker (1962), Los Angeles.
This lovely crimson-and-chrome lap steel is one of the fairly uncommon Rickenbacker "studio branded" products from the early 1960's, something that became increasingly rare as the company's Beatle-fueled boom kicked in after early 1964. It is a fairly basic student-grade instruments, designed for the teaching studios that had been a major part of Rickenbacker's business in the 1950's. It is still built to the company's high standards, branded only with a small "Electro' nameplate screwed to the treble side (facing the audience, if there was one!)
The body is a single carved piece of maple with decorative indents on the sides, finished in the same red as the company's "Fireglo" instruments but without the sunburst "glo" center. It uses the 1950-60s version of the venerable but always great-sounding horseshoe magnet pickup unit Rickenbacker developed in the 1930's, by this point seen only on Steels and basses. That unit is well known for its singing tone and powerful overdrive facility, and despite its student orientation this is a professional quality, great sounding steel with a lot of power and cut.
Overall length is 29 5/8 in. (75.2 cm.), 6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm.) across at the widest point, and 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm.) in depth, measured at side of rim. Scale length is 22 1/2 in. (572 mm.). Width of nut is 2 in. (51 mm.).
This steel is completely original and unaltered -- it looks like even down to the strings -- and shows only very minor wear. There are some small dinks, dents and scuffs to the finish and light corrosion spots on the metal but really this does not appear to have been used much. Probably somebody stopped going to their Hawaiian guitar lessons back in 1962 and it's been languishing ever since! It still resides in the original HSC which has same external wear but is also very well preserved. Excellent + Condition.
This lovely crimson-and-chrome lap steel is one of the fairly uncommon Rickenbacker "studio branded" products from the early 1960's, something that became increasingly rare as the company's Beatle-fueled boom kicked in after early 1964. It is a fairly basic student-grade instruments, designed for the teaching studios that had been a major part of Rickenbacker's business in the 1950's. It is still built to the company's high standards, branded only with a small "Electro' nameplate screwed to the treble side (facing the audience, if there was one!)
The body is a single carved piece of maple with decorative indents on the sides, finished in the same red as the company's "Fireglo" instruments but without the sunburst "glo" center. It uses the 1950-60s version of the venerable but always great-sounding horseshoe magnet pickup unit Rickenbacker developed in the 1930's, by this point seen only on Steels and basses. That unit is well known for its singing tone and powerful overdrive facility, and despite its student orientation this is a professional quality, great sounding steel with a lot of power and cut.
Overall length is 29 5/8 in. (75.2 cm.), 6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm.) across at the widest point, and 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm.) in depth, measured at side of rim. Scale length is 22 1/2 in. (572 mm.). Width of nut is 2 in. (51 mm.).
This steel is completely original and unaltered -- it looks like even down to the strings -- and shows only very minor wear. There are some small dinks, dents and scuffs to the finish and light corrosion spots on the metal but really this does not appear to have been used much. Probably somebody stopped going to their Hawaiian guitar lessons back in 1962 and it's been languishing ever since! It still resides in the original HSC which has same external wear but is also very well preserved. Excellent + Condition.