If you've got a spare five hundred grand this might be something you could buy.
For posterity:
If you've got a spare five hundred grand this might be something you could buy.
For posterity:
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
Yeah, replaced tuners and non-original case- make it $999-00. It 's anybody's guess what it is worth but even with the rest of the stuff. I would assume that the guitar was made by one of the Chicago makers- one of the faux resonator models would appear to be similar but in this case, a tenor guitar neck. Here is one- a few less dot markers and no pearloid overlay but the price is a little more down to earth!
I can only assume that this $500K guitar was the one that Jimi Hendrix learned to play on! Interestingly, the guitar still has the name spelled Rickenbacher- no second K- a later change. The headstock shape looks a lot like that used by Regal at the time for some tenor guitars.
https://reverb.com/item/2073001-melo...r-tenor-1930-s
Last edited by NickR; Oct-04-2019 at 10:12am.
Indeed rare and cool, but not worth $500K
In the ad they claim it is all original. Hmmmm.
I love Rickenbackers (or in this case 'Rickenbacher') . . . but that one at that price? I'll pass - thank you.
Does have a "matching" period amp...
Replaced headstock overlay, I assume? Don't know if the Waverly planetaries are original, but the "Swiss-cheese" headstock perforations would suggest that there should be a number of extra holes drilled right though.
$500K is incredibly unrealistic, to state the obvious.
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How about offering $499.000 . They may think you are offering $499,000 not $499 and accept it.
Ooooh - a Ric frying pan! I wouldn't mind adding one of those to my collection (it would make a nice companion for my 1937 Model 59 lap steel) . . . but at $500,000 I'll have to pass. Thanks anyhow MMuller!
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