String spacing on Rickenbacker frypan

Kekoa Blanchet · Post by **Kekoa Blanchet** » 19 Dec 2016 12:36 pm

Can anyone tell me what the string spacing is at the nut and at the bridge on a six-string Rickenbacker frypan? Just the distance from string 1 to string 6. Were these dimensions consistent throughout the production run of these instruments? Thanks for the help.

Noah Miller · Post by **Noah Miller** » 19 Dec 2016 1:30 pm

My 1950s A-25 is a hair under 1 7/8" at the nut and spot on 2" at the bridge. My late '30s A-22 is the same at the nut but 2 3/32" at the bridge.

Kekoa Blanchet · Post by **Kekoa Blanchet** » 19 Dec 2016 8:42 pm

Thanks Noah. The 2 3/32 measurement at the bridge is close to the dimension on a few other six string steel guitars I have lying around: Magnatone, JB frypan, Sierra, Rickenbacker bakelite. I wonder why they went to the narrower spacing on your later model frypan. Anybody know?

Bill Creller · Post by **Bill Creller** » 21 Dec 2016 5:34 am

The post-war frypan is a different animal, having a solid neck, open bottom with a cover etc, so the casting itself was changed from the early models, as well as the pickup & it's mounting...
No telling why, but saving money is the reason things like that are usually done !

Bobby Ingano always tells me that the post-war solid neck has more sustain !