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Topic: Post-war Rickenbacker "Panda" with BROWN fretboard |
Fred Kinbom
From:
Berlin, Germany, via Stockholm, Sweden.
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Jon Nygren
From:
Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 1 Aug 2008 5:57 am |
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| I like that alot too! |
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Erv Niehaus
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Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 1 Aug 2008 6:36 am
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I doubt if the fretboard is original.
On a bakelite Rickenbacher, the fretboard is not a separate piece, it is actual part of the one piece neck. |
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Ron Whitfield
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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 1 Aug 2008 10:33 am
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Deffinitely odd, as the original neck is there, but from the limited photo shots available, it looks like the 'wood' may be inlaid. And seems to have been done quite well.
I'd be asking for more/detailed pix befor plopping down the dough. But it's already got 10 bidders at over $500, so some are jumping at it. |
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Harry Sheppard
From:
Kalispell, MT USA
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Posted 1 Aug 2008 5:26 pm
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| Looks like wood grained contact paper to me. Even more interesting is the serial number stamped into the headstock. I have never seen one on a post war Bakelite. |
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Ron Whitfield
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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 1 Aug 2008 7:01 pm
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I think you nailed it with the contact paper, Harry. Makes way more sense.
I didn't see those stamped markings on the headstock's end, or have I ever, either. |
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John Billings
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Ohio, USA
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Posted 2 Aug 2008 8:14 am
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| I clicked to enlarge the pic of the headstock/nut area. Then I used Zoom to get really close. To me, it's wood overlayed on the original fretboard. The space between the strings and the fret board looks to be about 1/8" or less. Look at the shadows of the strings. Did these guitars originally have raised, Bakelite frets? If so, they probably gone. Sanded off to glue on the wood. |
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Erv Niehaus
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Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 2 Aug 2008 8:19 am
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The guitars originally had raised bakelite frets.
On the later models, the frets were highlighted with white lines on either side of the raised frets. |
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Rick Aiello
From:
Berryville, VA USA
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Posted 2 Aug 2008 8:42 am
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| The raised frets are still there ... the contact paper/vaneer/whatever ... is simply cut and pasted in between each fret. |
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John Billings
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Ohio, USA
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Posted 2 Aug 2008 9:25 am
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| You're right Rick! I just zoomed in on the 4th picture, and you can see the original black bakelite first fret. And the first string is the correct height above the fretboard. I was zoomin' on the 3rd pic before. Camera angle made it look different. |
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Rick Collins
From:
Claremont , CA USA
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Posted 2 Aug 2008 9:43 am
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I have a post-war Ric. just like that (without the inlay).
If that's real burl veneer, I must say it's prettier than the original fretboard. |
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