Phil O'Keefe Posted March 8, 2017 Share Posted March 8, 2017 If so, you might be able to get one of the very first electric guitars... http://www.delmarvanow.com/story/new...cord/98807730/ Check out this interesting article about one of the very first Electro-Spanish guitars. It was made by Rickenbacker... and yes, it sold for more at auction than any other guitar - at least that I'm aware of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Grant Harding Posted March 8, 2017 Members Share Posted March 8, 2017 Hey - what a bargain! If I was rich and dumb I'd be all over that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ancient Mariner Posted March 8, 2017 Members Share Posted March 8, 2017 Piece of junk - some fool has tried to relic it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Phil O'Keefe Posted March 8, 2017 Author Share Posted March 8, 2017 Hey - what a bargain! If I was rich and dumb I'd be all over that. IMHO something like that actually belongs in a museum due to its historical significance rather in some well-off dude's humidity controlled vintage guitar collection vault. YMMV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BG76 Posted March 8, 2017 Members Share Posted March 8, 2017 I would rather have that than a celebrity owned guitar or something. Very cool! Since I like Rickenbacker guitars a lot (I have a 300, 600, old steel and one of their little M-8 maps) I would love to see it in person. Hopefully it ends up in the Smithsonian or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bucksstudent Posted March 8, 2017 Members Share Posted March 8, 2017 If I had a spare 7.5 million, I most likely wouldn't buy brand name guitars anymore and have a luthier make them. I know it gets under Rickenbacker's skin when people claim Les Paul made the first solid body electric guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BG76 Posted March 8, 2017 Members Share Posted March 8, 2017 I would still buy name brand stuff. I've played nice small builder guitars but I will always be partial to the classics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted March 8, 2017 Author Share Posted March 8, 2017 I know it gets under Rickenbacker's skin when people claim Les Paul made the first solid body electric guitar. While Rickenbacker's Frying Pan was technically the first solidbody electric guitar, it wasn't designed to be played like an electro-Spanish guitar. It was a lap steel. And the guitar in the OP isn't solid, although it is a very early commercially available electro-Spanish model.... although the Stromberg Electro probably predated it as the first commercially available electric guitar model. Like the Ric in the OP, it wasn't a solid body either. George Beauchamp Paul Tutmarc, Les Paul, Leo Fender and Paul Bigsby can all lay at least partial claim to being solidbody guitar / bass pioneers. It really depends on how you want to qualify it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hellion_213 Posted March 8, 2017 Members Share Posted March 8, 2017 That's really cool, and I would like to see it one day, but if I had 7.5 million, I'd probably try my hand at running a guitar line, like Zakk and Chappers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Emory Posted March 9, 2017 Members Share Posted March 9, 2017 If some HC poster bought it, might see them in couple of weeks asking for suggestions on mods.... "I like it, but would really like a trem bar" or "Filtertrons or SD triple shot: which way should I go?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members uab9253 Posted March 9, 2017 Members Share Posted March 9, 2017 Yes that story occurred just a few miles from where I live. I had no idea there was a custom maker so close - I go to PRS all the time, but I can't say that I like the stuff that he makes. But I think the article did say it was going to a museum of sorts, so there's that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted March 10, 2017 Author Share Posted March 10, 2017 If some HC poster bought it, might see them in couple of weeks asking for suggestions on mods.... "I like it, but would really like a trem bar" or "Filtertrons or SD triple shot: which way should I go?" Doood... I really love it, but it needs a cutaway for better upper-fret access. Should I use a chainsaw or sawzall to mod it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators daddymack Posted March 10, 2017 Moderators Share Posted March 10, 2017 thanks for mentioning the Stromberg/Kay Electro...truly the 1st 'electric' guitar with a built in pickup [it worked more like a speaker driver/coil reversed than we think of pickups today, but the concept can be applied to make a 'beat box' from an old headphone, so is still viable]. Most people have no idea this even existed... in 1928! The Stomberg was a resonator guitar, rather than a 'Spanish', so I suppose there is some quibbling regarding the titling....I think owning one of the Stromberg Electros would actually be cooler than that Ric [was it Rickenbacker or Ro-Pat-In when that guitar was first marketed?], and I would be more interested in buying an original 'Frying Pan' than the one shown... Personally, I think 7.5 million is 'whack' for that guitar, seeing as how there are more known to exist...and I agree at least one of them should be in a museum, like the 'Log'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators daddymack Posted March 10, 2017 Moderators Share Posted March 10, 2017 Gotta use a Dremel...and it needs a DiMarzio SD at teh bridge, and a Lover P90 at the neck...or maybe some EMGs...and locking tuners, and a floyd... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Grant Harding Posted March 10, 2017 Members Share Posted March 10, 2017 If some HC poster bought it, might see them in couple of weeks asking for suggestions on mods.... "I like it, but would really like a trem bar" or "Filtertrons or SD triple shot: which way should I go?" Thread title: "Routing an old Gretsch for a Floyd Rose? Yay or nay?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members badpenguin Posted March 11, 2017 Members Share Posted March 11, 2017 No.... just no. The vintage market has gotten out of hand, and this proves it. I can't see a guitar valued at 7.5 million, just like I can't see a football player getting 20 million for playing a stupid game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators daddymack Posted March 11, 2017 Moderators Share Posted March 11, 2017 and yet... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hellion_213 Posted March 11, 2017 Members Share Posted March 11, 2017 Agreed, but it's not only guitars and pro ball players, look what the Barrett auction, televised, did to the antique/vintage auto market. You can't even touch a Vega or Maverick, not running, anymore for under a couple of grand. 7.5mil for a guitar is absolutely ludicrous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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