The Steel Guitar Forum

Is there a site that shows the different Rick guitars and the name or model number of each instrument ?

Rick Aiello's website is a good place to start. Check his "Steel Museum".

Steinar

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Rickenbacker has an extensive gallery of their guitars in their gallery, but it only starts in the 1950s (so far). I'm sure they'll add more pictures as they go through their own archives.
Also check some pictures on my web site.

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Brad's Page of Steel
A web site devoted to acoustic & electric lap steel guitars

A note about the Rickenbaker web site. The old product catalogs from the 30's are way off in time sequence. I have not been there for a while but I remember seeing several guitars that had not been introduced being represented several years too early.

Rec'd an inquiry today about a Ric Seven stringer; 7 grooves at the nut and bridge; yet, it has 8 tuning knobs.

Any discussion?

Any pictures?

I've seen seven and eight string Rickenbacker Bakelite steel guitars before, but they're pretty rare. I'd love to see what something like this looks like.

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Brad's Page of Steel
A web site devoted to acoustic & electric lap steel guitars

Ray:
I just noticed the bridge on my D-8 Rick has 16 grooves, now what is that all about ? I don't think that was an option, but who knows ?

I checked each of my Ricks and they all seem to have "markings" for string slots BETWEEN the six or seven strings that are in place. That is at the bridge end.
Was the necks wider for seven or eight strings models or did the strings simply hang over the edge? Curious minds want to know.

Hey Ray.......here's some shots...not that kind...

Would recomend book "The Complete History of Rickenbacker Guitars" by Richard R. Smith available from Scotty's Music. Has many pics dating back to 1932 Frypans. Also history of company and founders. Also:

Have a Rick D-8 Deluxe as pictured on page 43 of the book that may be for sale to Forum members. Excellent cond./OHSC. Tone is about as close to a Frypan as you could get....entire guitar made of heavy cast aluminum. Do not want to put on ebay.

Hey, Howard, is that an old National New Yorker I see on the left. Great power and sound. Looked sharp in those days too. I played a lot of jobs with that one...al

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That it is Al, that it is...

Bobby Ingano had (or has) a seven string with eight tuners.(not to be confused with his eight string which he uses with seven strings). We didn't figure out why it was built that way,But Rickenbacker did some strange things, like guitars made of parts from different years/models.
Derrick Mau has a late bakelite which has a rectangular logo plate, like would be used on a console.
Howard...Nice seven string you have there. <font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by Bill Creller on 25 December 2005 at 06:52 PM.]</p></FONT>

Here's my 7 stringer Bill talks about. Rickenbacker must have ran out of logo's so they used what ever they had.

Hi Brad,

Something like this?