From what I read, they may have predated Rickenbacher.
A fellow Forum member was kind enough to make a replacement cover plate for me.
The old one was removed and a plastic one had been installed somewhere along its travels so I opted for one closer to photos.
This is made of walnut and, being very creative looks like they used mandolin tuners to make a 7 string guitar. My father was a 70 year plus lap steel player and I recently went through his collection. He did like this one.
It has a huge old telephone? .. magnet inside up against a wound blade pickup.
A true magnet “powered†lap steel.
I have attached some images.
Interestingly, I saw this link. The guitar in the link is not my guitar in the photo but it is the only other walnut one I have seen an image of..
https://reverb.com/item/9881358-1930-s- ... demo-video
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