Identification of my lap slide & value

chadmusgrove · Post by **chadmusgrove** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 7:35 pm

This is a lap slide that I got from my grandparents from what I can tell it looks like a 54 or 55 student model. Everything seems to be intacked shy of the tone pot needing replaced. Serial is U5418, I have the knobs but didn't put them back on for the pics. Any info would be great; thanks.

admin · Post by **admin** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 12:49 pm

Chad: Welcome to The Rickenbacker Forum. Some photos would be helpful in identifying the lap steel. Can you post a couple?

chadmusgrove · Post by **chadmusgrove** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 3:31 pm

chadmusgrove · Post by **chadmusgrove** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 3:44 pm

chadmusgrove · Post by **chadmusgrove** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 3:50 pm

chadmusgrove · Post by **chadmusgrove** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 3:52 pm

chadmusgrove · Post by **chadmusgrove** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 3:56 pm

admin · Post by **admin** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 4:00 pm

Chad: Thanks for the photos. This would be a Model 100 (Speckle) Lap Steel.

byu · Post by **byu** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 9:12 pm

I'd love to hear what this model sounds like. Can you post some MP3s (add strings first). I've been considering a lap steel purchase & they've been on eBay recently.

Cheers,
Bill

chadmusgrove · Post by **chadmusgrove** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 5:44 pm

I Need to Replace what I believe is the tone pot "the one closest to the pickup has come apart you can can turn it 360+ degrees." any recomendations for type I've heard of log and liniar type pots. Both pots are 500k and the codes read
"271-210 500k 137-" For consistancy I'll probably replace both tone and volume pots. And It's got one of the oldest style caps I've ever seen ".047 microferrad".

chadmusgrove · Post by **chadmusgrove** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 5:52 pm

Would repainting it destroy the value?

admin · Post by **admin** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 1:28 am

Yes, painting it would indeed reduce its value.