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I have several prewar frypans.
Please have him contact me if he still needs these photos.

Beautiful.
You really need a Model G.

Mine does not.

No, I haven't.

The look is similar. Here is an SW.

http://cdn1.gbase.com/usercontent/gear/ ... hir_so.jpg

There are several on EBay currently.

jps wrote:I bet the girls really like that collection of yours!

I call it my adolescent d**do collection.

Would you mind comparing the tone of the red ones versus the green? I've heard so many people say the red ones have a hotter sound. My collection is currently in storage while I move into a new house. As I remember it, the red bars are coated metal and the green bars are Bakelite with lead centers....

It's probably a CW, the forerunner of the Jerry Byrd.

I don't care for the thin, hollow tone of the postwar Model S/NS.
The prewar Model 59 sounds very full and fat.

It's a J-6 model.

I'm posting this for the benefit of historians and collectors. The Rickenbacher/National connection, George Beauchamp, is well known. Therefore, this post.

http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=243006

I don't have any skin in this game.

Which width came first? The 1-1/2 inch magnet was used on the earliest frypan lap steel guitars as early as 1932. The 1-1/2 inch pickup his considered to be one of the best steel guitar pick ups ever made. I prefer it to the 1-1/4 inch. It was produced until sometime early during World War II. After...

Yes. Get a 500k audio taper pot. Stewmac has them.