Auction: Estate of Ray Krick, INDIANA

Rick Abbott · Post by **Rick Abbott** » 15 Jun 2016 10:25 am

Here is a link to the sale in Rochester Indiana:

http://www.manitourealty.com/krick.html

Ray built his own steels, there are three in the sale. All are pull release, all sound great. The odd looking one was a sort of joke. He used barn hinges and cables on a plank of wood, very very primitive, but it sounds great. The fake vomit and other glued on debris is free with the guitar. I believe they are standard height, and the two single necks have lighted fret markers. There is a Session 500 that looks showroom new and a Session 400LTD that looks as good, but needs the volume pot cleaned. The K-Ped pedals are light-beam technology that Ray patented in 1964, the one with the electrical cord is the original. There are a couple other pedals; a Shobud and a Goodrich L120. There are some other electronics and whatnot.

He sand cast all the parts, pedals, ends, keyplates. He made all the pickups, usually wound to about 18K.

See the handbill and pictures on the link above. I took a few pictures, but many are too shaky to use...tremors from a medicine. I'll upload some below.

Rick Abbott · Post by **Rick Abbott** » 15 Jun 2016 10:32 am

Rick Abbott · Post by **Rick Abbott** » 18 Jun 2016 7:22 pm

I'll try to post a sheet showing the tunings for the steels, as they are not "standard."

Rick Abbott · Post by **Rick Abbott** » 21 Jun 2016 5:21 pm

I have NO idea what the D-10 has as a second tuning. Ray used the C6 chromatic for decades. He could play ANY style on it. E9 stuff sounded correct, C6 stuff was probably compromised on the low end. He was an E9 player really, but with THIS tuning...he did stuff his own way...always!

It seems that he described the function of the change and not a typical "copedant" the way we think of it.

Rick Abbott · Post by **Rick Abbott** » 23 Jun 2016 4:29 pm

Saturday, 10:30am, folks. Thanks for looking.

BTW, I'm not making anything from this sale, I'm just helping Ray's family out.