10-String Bakelite Ric Alert!

Dana Duplan · Post by **Dana Duplan** » 13 Sep 2005 4:38 am

I expect it won't be around for long, so if anyone is looking for one of these:
www.gruhn.com

DD

Post by **Brad Bechtel** » 13 Sep 2005 7:33 am

http://www.gruhn.com/photo/EU2583.jpg

What a beauty.

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John Billings · Post by **John Billings** » 13 Sep 2005 7:35 am

Rick Garrett · Post by **Rick Garrett** » 13 Sep 2005 9:09 am

I have one exactly like that guitar only the panels are white on my guitar. Is that chrome plate I'm seeing there? Almost looks like black plates.

Rick

Mike Neer · Post by **Mike Neer** » 13 Sep 2005 9:31 am

I had one a few years ago--rescued it from a Guitar Center showcase for $800. Needed help, though. With some help from Rick Aiello, got it restored nicely and sold it, but I never fell in love with it. Didn't really make much money on it, either.

AJ Azure · Post by **AJ Azure** » 13 Sep 2005 12:54 pm

I just wet myself lol

I didn't even think they made an 8 much less a 10 string!

Rick Garrett · Post by **Rick Garrett** » 13 Sep 2005 2:59 pm

Mine has a tone thats realy incredible. To my ears at least. Really, REALLY fat sounding.

Rick

P.S. What about the plates on that guitar. Chrome or black?

Mike Neer · Post by **Mike Neer** » 13 Sep 2005 3:05 pm

Chrome

Andy Barlo · Post by **Andy Barlo** » 14 Sep 2005 11:58 am

Dana, you were right. It didn't last long. I went to that website this morning to look at it again and was GONE. Maybe one of our members is now the proud owner.

Gerald Ross · Post by **Gerald Ross** » 14 Sep 2005 12:05 pm

I'm curious to hear what type of music people create with this 10 string guitar.

To me the string spacing looks too close for slanting and fast picking. String spacing looks very pedal-steel like.

Do people approach this guitar as a non-pedal pedal steel?

On a side note:
The headstock looks a bit quasi religious-icon-like to me and a bit Darth Vader-ish.

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Mike Neer · Post by **Mike Neer** » 14 Sep 2005 12:09 pm

These might have been set up for the Alkire tuning, although mine had a nut slotted for 2 sets of bass strings--one being on the bass side and the other in the middle, as if it had 2 separate tunings. That was actually one very cool aspect of it and that's how I used it.

Rick Garrett · Post by **Rick Garrett** » 14 Sep 2005 12:22 pm

Mines C6th. I play some blues, country, southern gospel and even a little hawaiian music.

Actually I haven't played my Rick since I got my new Super Slide 12 string. Guess I need to take it out of the case and tune it up.

Rick

Gerald Ross · Post by **Gerald Ross** » 14 Sep 2005 12:23 pm

You're right Mike, I never thought of the Alkire headset for this guitar.

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Gerald Ross
'Northwest Ann Arbor, Michigan's King Of The Hawaiian Steel Guitar'

CEO, CIO, CFO - UkeTone Records
Gerald's Fingerstyle Guitar Website
Board of Directors Hawaiian Steel Guitar Association

[This message was edited by Gerald Ross on 14 September 2005 at 01:23 PM.]

Richard Halverson · Post by **Richard Halverson** » 19 Sep 2005 9:24 am

Hi. This one has flat plates on both sides of the pickup. I thought all the plates
should be rasied? What is your thought on
this?
Thanks Richard

Rick Garrett · Post by **Rick Garrett** » 19 Sep 2005 12:09 pm

Don't know if your question is for me or not but, the plates on either side of the pick up on my guitar are flat. All the others are raised. The tone and tuning knobs go through the flat plates on either side of the pickup.

Rick

P.S. I wonder what it would do to the value of my guitar to the plates chrome plated. Sure does look better than my panda.