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Topic: I need a nut for a 10 string Rickenbacher Lap Steel |
Mike Maddux
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Cerritos, CA
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Posted 24 Jan 2007 2:12 pm |
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Its a 10 string model with the white faceplates.
I need a nut for 10 strings...someone took the original off and put an 8 string nut on.
Mike
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President - Southern Californa Steel Guitar Association
Regular Rig: Twin Reverb, Sho-Bud LDG |
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Gary Lynch
From:
Creston, California, USA
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Posted 25 Jan 2007 8:51 am
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Mike,
Does the pickup on your steel have ten pickup poles, one for each string? Or eight pickup poles?
Just wondering as I have seen both. During the later 1950's and into the 1960's, Rickenbacker built both lap steels and console steels using pickups with one or more less poles than strings. It sounds odd but it is fact. There are eight string steels with seven pole pickups, and ten string steels with eight pickup poles out there and they were factory installed. |
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Bill Creller
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Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 25 Jan 2007 4:14 pm
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If it's a bakelite, the bridge was part of the neck, at least on 6 thru 8 string. Was yours cut off? How are you going to install a new one?
Regards BILL |
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J D Sauser
From:
Wellington, Florida
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Posted 25 Jan 2007 7:51 pm
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| Bill Creller wrote: |
If it's a bakelite, the bridge was part of the neck, at least on 6 thru 8 string. Was yours cut off? How are you going to install a new one?
Regards BILL |
B10's all had a cast aluminum neck wit a screwed-on chrome plated steel nut.
The body was original bakelite but the bridge part must have been covered in the mold and a variety of metal nuts were produced... most of machined aluminum. As you can see some are around featuring hard wood bridges.
Mike:
I don't think you will find a nut, these guitars did not break usually and few were made You will have to have one made. I had a stain less steel bridge made based on the original aluminum briege and it sounded better. Later on I modified the part where my highest string rested on (E- o.o17) so that there was a faux bone insert.... to take some of the shrillness away. I don't have my B10 handy, so I can't help you much more then with these pictures of some B10 seen on the net:
 
... J-D. |
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Mike Maddux
From:
Cerritos, CA
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Posted 25 Jan 2007 9:56 pm
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ok well mabe I should have elaborated, does anyone know where I could get one made? Obvious facts aside. The steel is exactlly as above.
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President - Southern Californa Steel Guitar Association
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Bill Creller
From:
Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 26 Jan 2007 8:52 am
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In those pix, the nut appears to be held on with screws thru the neck from the bottom side. Is that how it's made?
BILL |
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J D Sauser
From:
Wellington, Florida
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Posted 26 Jan 2007 4:08 pm
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| Bill Creller wrote: |
In those pix, the nut appears to be held on with screws thru the neck from the bottom side. Is that how it's made?
BILL |
Yes, this is how it's made.
... J-D. |
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Mike Maddux
From:
Cerritos, CA
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Posted 26 Jan 2007 5:33 pm
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The pickup has 10 pole pieces and yes the nut screws in from the bottom.
Anyone have the ability to fabricate one of these? If not, do you know someone who can?
Thanks everyone
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President - Southern Californa Steel Guitar Association
Regular Rig: Twin Reverb, Sho-Bud LDG |
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J D Sauser
From:
Wellington, Florida
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Posted 26 Jan 2007 5:50 pm
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Most any precision tool shop can do it once you can provide them with the adecuate drawings. I had one for the bridge and the nut is very simple... but as I said, I am sorry... all my Rickenbacher stuff is in Switzerland and I won't see it for probably an other year.
... J-D. |
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