What's up with this Ric?

Jon Light (deceased) · Post by **Jon Light (deceased)** » 23 Nov 2004 3:09 pm

This Buy & Sell listing:
http://steelguitarforum.com/Forum9/HTML/000735.html

Super nice looking guitar. I have never seen that piece of hardware that attaches the pickup before. But there's plenty of things I have never seen before. Anybody familiar with that bracket?

Post by **Brad Bechtel** » 23 Nov 2004 3:13 pm

That's a nice looking guitar, but I've never seen a bracket on the tailpiece like that before.

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Ron Whitfield · Post by **Ron Whitfield** » 23 Nov 2004 3:24 pm

Buy it!

Jon Kostal · Post by **Jon Kostal** » 23 Nov 2004 4:25 pm

I can only guess that these homemade pieces were put on for some kind of strap arrangement. The owner passed away so I can't ask him, and his wife has no idea.

Jon

The ebay listing.[This message was edited by Jon Kostal on 23 November 2004 at 04:26 PM.]

Jon Light (deceased) · Post by **Jon Light (deceased)** » 23 Nov 2004 4:32 pm

Thanks Jon. My apologies that I didn't ask you directly if you could shed any light. I repeat, that is a beautiful guitar.

Jon Kostal · Post by **Jon Kostal** » 23 Nov 2004 5:26 pm

Thanks, Jon. (good name) Yeah, it's a very cool guitar. An 8-string is a nice one to have. Really great tone.

thanks,

Jon

Denny Turner · Post by **Denny Turner** » 23 Nov 2004 7:02 pm

There was a Ric Steel tailpiece that facilitated a whammy bar! I am not sure but I think this tailpiece is one with stabilizing plates to lock out the tremelo mechanism.

Here's a couple of pics of the Rick vibrato on a B6.

Aloha,
DT~
[This message was edited by Denny Turner on 23 November 2004 at 07:39 PM.]