2019-2020 Rittenberry Prestige Custom

Derek Puckett · Post by **Derek Puckett** » 7 Jan 2020 8:05 pm

Here is the new Rittenberry Prestige Custom, this body is 1/2 longer than the standard prestige, with an emmons style keyhead, a split tail neck(optional) color coordinated flocking and the options to have arm pads in other colors as well.

Johnie King · Post by **Johnie King** » 9 Jan 2020 6:51 am

Thanks for posting your beautiful Prestige. Does this Prestige have a longer scale?

Randy Carson · Post by **Randy Carson** » 9 Jan 2020 9:44 pm

1/2 ? half inch? please explain thanks

Derek Puckett · Post by **Derek Puckett** » 10 Jan 2020 11:45 am

Hey everyone, thanks for the comment the scale is the same, the 1/2 is to accommodate the Emmons style key head

forrest klott · Post by **forrest klott** » 10 Jan 2020 12:07 pm

Thatâ€™s purty as a speckled pup in a red wagon!

Did Gary go away from the JCH fretboards, or did you have him do that one on request?

Beautiful axe!

Skeeter

Derek Puckett · Post by **Derek Puckett** » 11 Jan 2020 6:40 am

No the prestige guitars still have the jch style, the reason of using this board the color of the blue on this board is similar to the color of the guitar, Gary had the body built when I started helping him and we collaborated on matching the flocking and the fret board.

Bill Dobkins · Post by **Bill Dobkins** » 11 Jan 2020 6:50 pm

Derick, Nice Ritt. do you like the sound of the Ritt/Katana combo. I sure like mine.

Derek Puckett · Post by **Derek Puckett** » 11 Jan 2020 10:14 pm

I love it trough every amp but had to put a speaker in, the brights on the katana was to harsh still tweaking on it and the clean channel is too quite with the gain turned down. But I’m 15” speaker guy so it will take little to get use to. I got it for weight I was tired of dragging the NV400 around. I installed a eminence basslite in it and so far so good.

Dale Rottacker · Post by **Dale Rottacker** » 12 Jan 2020 8:49 am

Derek Puckett wrote:I love it trough every amp but had to put a speaker in, the brights on the katana where to harsh still tweaking on it and the clean channel is too quite with the gain turned down. But I’m 15” speaker guy so it will take little to get use to I just got it because of weight. Got tired of dragging the NV400 around. I installed a eminence basslite in it and so far so good.

Derek, I’ve always been a 15” guy myself, ever since leaving my Fender Twin. BUT, I really love my Ritt through my Telonics SuperTwin with TT12’s in it... It absolutley has all the Range I thought I had with my 15’s... I talked at depth with Buck Reid a couple of years ago about his reason for using a 112 instead of a 400 with a 15” and his explanation made total sense, even to this non tech guy... I also have two Rick Johnson Cabs with TT15’s in them, AND can use them as extension speakers with the Telonics. Just for giggles, you may want to try a TT12 in your Katana... I know that these TT speakers tend to eliminate any of the weirdness I was experiencing before putting them in.

Roger Crawford · Post by **Roger Crawford** » 12 Jan 2020 1:08 pm

Is the Emmons style key head for aesthetics, or is there a tonal difference?

forrest klott · Post by **forrest klott** » 12 Jan 2020 1:16 pm

I guess Iâ€™m confused lol...itâ€™s a Prestige then, correct?

Dale...Iâ€™d love to hear what Buck had to say about 12â€ vs 15â€™s. If you donâ€™t want to post, please PM me.

Thanks!

Skeeter

Dale Rottacker · Post by **Dale Rottacker** » 12 Jan 2020 2:27 pm

forrest klott wrote:I guess Iâ€™m confused lol...itâ€™s a Prestige then, correct?

Dale...Iâ€™d love to hear what Buck had to say about 12â€ vs 15â€™s. If you donâ€™t want to post, please PM me.

Thanks!

Skeeter

Forrest, Iâ€™m sure I wonâ€™t word it as well as Buck, but as I remember, it had to do with 15â€™s needing to be pushed harder to get all those frequencies but arenâ€™t, where the 12â€™s reach their frequency efficiency at a much lower level... Hope I got that correct... I know in order to save a BUNCH of weight, I went to an ELF for bass in church with a 10â€ speaker and it takes care of the church very well with a pretty good bassy sound... It surprised me a lot.

Derek Puckett · Post by **Derek Puckett** » 12 Jan 2020 5:25 pm

Hey, roger, I feel it adds some different overtones, I believe it’s a mix
Of the string length,and the tuner shaft being in contact with the keyhead transferring sound.

Derek Puckett · Post by **Derek Puckett** » 5 Sep 2020 8:23 pm

Going to Hawaii!! One off guitar with 9 pedals and 9 knees. This one was fun to build. We have another beautiful guitar going to be finished soon.

Johnie King · Post by **Johnie King** » 6 Sep 2020 4:12 am

DEREK that’s a beautiful prestige l really like that design.
I feel that Gary an you build one of the best pedal steels that you Can own.
Look at the bell cranks you don’t have too remove the round cross shafts too add a bell crank an Expensive milled End plates, just good quality down too the last screw.
Just labor intensive an high cost Materials go into Gary’s PRESTIGE STEELS.

Dick Hitchcock · Post by **Dick Hitchcock** » 6 Sep 2020 5:31 am

A beautiful job Derek...You and Gary do some excellent work, and build a quality steel..
keep them coming, and tell Gary HEY for me OK?

Gene Tani · Post by **Gene Tani** » 6 Sep 2020 8:53 am

Really beautiful, don't know if my steel is envious or jealous. Both!

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I never modded my Katana except for putting different preamps and compressors thru it but the baffle or cab depth was an issue

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Lots of other speaker recommendations if you google "katana speaker swap upgrade"

Dale Foreman · Post by **Dale Foreman** » 6 Sep 2020 10:49 am

Hey Derek, whoâ€™s that new Prestige build for?

Dennis Wireman · Post by **Dennis Wireman** » 6 Sep 2020 11:56 am

Nice looking custom there but it would be hard to beat this one
nothing like a Rittenberry

Derek Puckett · Post by **Derek Puckett** » 6 Sep 2020 6:25 pm

Loved being a part of that guitar Dennis. I love building beautiful,quality guitars.

Derek Puckett · Post by **Derek Puckett** » 6 Sep 2020 6:43 pm

Johnie yes, our patented bellcrank is one of a kind, you don’t have to fight removing shafts to change setups with plenty of adjustment it makes it nice to build and do repairs.

Dale Foreman · Post by **Dale Foreman** » 7 Sep 2020 12:12 pm

I love my Ritts!

Kelcey ONeil · Post by **Kelcey ONeil** » 7 Sep 2020 5:04 pm

Is the split neck for the split tuning block, or just kind of going along with the Emmons style theme?

Kelcey ONeil · Post by **Kelcey ONeil** » 7 Sep 2020 5:04 pm

Is the split neck for the split tuning block, or just kind of going along with the Emmons style theme?

Derek Puckett · Post by **Derek Puckett** » 10 Sep 2020 7:38 pm

Just going along with the nostalgia old style out, normal prestige necks have split tuning it’s just a wrap around.