Woah! Triple Neck Ricky on Ebay

Jason Hull · Posted 13 Jul 2011 3:32 am

Found this on Ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/steel-guitar-rickenbacker-3-board-10string2eightstring-/280709056004

I can see myself playing this with Cab Calloway, performing "Minnie the Moocher", as in The Blues Brothers.

Hot and classy!

Erv Niehaus · From: Litchfield, MN, USA

It looks to me like somebody covered the Rick with white formica and sparkly tape.

Doug Beaumier · From: Northampton, MA

Yes, that formica looks like an owner add-on. I hope he didn't destroy the original finish.
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Erv Niehaus · From: Litchfield, MN, USA

If he used contact cement, that would pretty much take care of the original finish. Sad

Mike Neer · From: NJ

It looks like he screwed white birch paneling onto the guitar. Yuck! This is the model that Lee jeffriess refers to as the "trailer park" model. Laughing

I had one, too, and Lee bought his from David Lindley (you can read the story in our interview).
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Erv Niehaus · From: Litchfield, MN, USA

This is what they're sposed to look like:

Eric Stumpf · From: Newbury, NH 03255

also known as "The Winnebago".

Jason Hull · Posted 15 Jul 2011 5:15 pm

It could only be improved by gold-sparkle binding, a'la the Gretsch White Falcon. Whoa!

Bill Creller · From: Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)

Many guitars were cobbled back when they were a dime a dozen, and sold cheap at music stores.
A friend bought a 30s bakelite at a music store back then, for 75 bucks, and they were glad to sell it.

So it wasn't a big investment involved when the owner wanted to "customize" it.
I rescued a D8 String Master that had cheap jewelry glued to it in various places. Weird........

Jason Hull · Posted 16 Jul 2011 4:52 am

Bill Creller · From: Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)

Sorry, I didn't think of taking pics of it. I re-finished it blonde. Derrick Mau has it now. Sometimes I wish I would have not sold it, but too many guitars etc.

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