Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

Oh - forgot to include that the top, white knob has a small crack in it - but it is still intact and functional.

Patti -
As a follow-up to your note - I posted info I received from the local expert.
You can view it under "RickenbacHer Electro lap steel - an A22??"
Best - karen-von

As a follow-up to interest expressed about this guitar on a related thread (Case for Pre-War Rick Steel Lap Top), I thought I'd share that I took this ricky to a local expert here in Virginia to have it checked out.
The owner hooked it up to a Blackface Princeton Amp and loved the resulting tone and ...

Patti
Welcome to the forum - just joined a couple months ago myself.
I am totally clueless regarding the other knob.
The guitar was working when my dad passed away in 2001.
We (the family) have not done anything with it (played it) since.
So it should still be in good working order since it has ...

I sold the amp on CraigsList - it was a Kalamazoo Model 1.
I kept the amp cord with the guitar, however.

Richard -
Thanks so much for sharing your opinion regarding the case - much appreciated.
Regarding the asking price - I'm assuming you mean for the case + guitar and not just the case.
When I do sell, I'm hoping to realize something in the ballpark of $2500 for everything (guitar, case, picks, slide ...

John - Thanks for the green light to do a possible show/sell.
I'm hoping I can fit this event into my spring travels - seems like the perfect venue to find a future owner who will appreciate my dad's old lap steel.
Plus...it sounds like a fun and cool event!

Here are a couple more photos detailing interior...
Thanks!

Again - many thanks to all who've been so generous with their excellent advice relating to my pre-war Rick steel lap top.
I would like to get an opinion on whether or not the case (pictured below) is original to this instrument.
The case came with the guitar when my father purchased it in the 1940s ...

Greeting -
Is the MARF an event where someone (like me) would be able to bring my dad's old pre-war Rickenbacher lap steel for show - and possible sell?
Or would this be totally inappropriate?
Just wanted to ask up front since I'm so very new to this forum and arena of interest.
Thanks for any ...

Thanks Richard!
I've taken a couple additional pictures - to show detail of the controls as well as the serial # (I think there are 3 #s - 21 are clear - but hard to make out the last one....9 maybe?).
Using your direction, I come up with 22" on the money - so I must have an A22.
The finish isn't ...

Gentlemen -
Thanks for the warm welcomes! Thanks, too, for the link directing me to recent sale prices for A-22s.
I'm still unsure if this is actually an A-22 - as the pics of instruments on the registry don't seem to show the knob on the right side (at the 1pm position).
Would greatly welcome some ...

I think I've figured out how to upload pictures...

Hello!
I'm trying to find out some information on a lap steel, frying pan Rickenbacher Electro guitar that I inherited from my father who purchased this instrument in Hawaii in the 1940s.
From my uneducated eye - and after doing some research on Rick's page - it looks to be an A22.
At the top of ...