Pete Townshend Style Bakelite Rick sighted on Ebay

Jon Light (deceased) · From: Saugerties, NY

This is a forum member. He has told the tragic story of how UPS lovingly handled this guitar.
I think ebay is a great idea for this. How can you even begin to guess how to price this? There is a real need for parts out there. So how bad do you want 'em? Here they are.
This will be interesting to watch.

Jim Cohen · From: Philadelphia, PA

Judging from the spelling of "Rickenbacker" (i.e., with "k" not "h") I'd say this is a post-war model. These are not the ones selling near $1K. (I can't quite make out in the photo if it has a tail piece or thru the body, but I'm betting it's the tailpiece model, i.e., post-war).

J D Sauser · From: Wellington, Florida

1949 through the mid golden '50s.
I recently bought a same model but in one piece and good playing condition, but with the white plates sanded to the bare metal (I presently have'em re-painted to original specs).
The strings are through the body anchor like on the earlier so called "pre-war" ones, however, like all so called "post-war" models, it's bridge is not an integral part of the body's moulding and it has the narrower horse-shoe pick-up.
It still kills me to see what UPS did to it.
Sadly, I've never seen replacement necks available but I'd be interested for the remaining parts.
... J-D.

[This message was edited by J D Sauser on 30 July 2000 at 02:43 PM.]

Bob Stone · From: Gainesville, FL, USA

It will be interesting to see how the bidding goes. Bakelite can be glued, but that break is at a highly stressed area.

Wayne Tanner told me that a few years ago he had his Ric sitting on a stand and dropped it when attempting to move it across the stage. It broke right in half (he didn't say where it broke). He put it back together with some good adhesive and plays it today!

There seems to be a lesson here. Be extra careful when shipping a Bakelite Ric. I have a friend who is a glass artist. He has been shipping his pieces,which sell for thousands of $, for 20 years via UPS, etc. and has never had a piece break. He uses a box-within-a-box system--something like we use with guitars only more extreme--and LOTS of styrofoam and bubble pack.

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