Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

Thank you very much. I am enjoying it. Do you know what the second knob does on the body (besides nothing on mine)?

tim in san jose

I did. Grab it that is.

It still looks like a late 40's lapsteel. The color is wrong for the gray 1939 model. it has a much more subtle flame gray to a bit darker gray. The label at the top is not cast. There are scrape marks on the back (which I assume destroy it's collectible value). It plays ...

So you say "Grab it?"

t

Local shop has what is advertised as a 1939 Model 59. It's light gray with a very small lighter sunburst pattern in the middle. Not like the models shown here on the forum that look almost black with a light sunburst covering most of the guitar. The finger spots seem hand painted. There is no serial ...