Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

North Coast Guitars are expensive, but not that bad by Oz standards, and comparable with other dealers here when you can find them. To give you some idea of prices, a basic new mexi Fender tele costs about Oz$750 here after discount. How much in the US? About 1/3 of that?

Change topic - the nut ...

Richard,

This NS clearly has screw holes in the headstock:

http://www.northcoastguitars.com.au/ricky-ns.html

Anther bit to add to your jigsaw!

I bought a National Chicagoan from North Coast Guitars. A bit pricey by US standards (I'm in Oz), but being completely new to lapsteels, I ...

Oops, that should read $475.

Thanks Richard,

The mystery is apparently solved, and another piece of the jigsaw is in place. One the attractions that these old guitars by National, Valco and Richenbacher have for me is the sheer complexity of their history. My impression is that these early makers weren't too fussy about the ...

Richard,

Do you have an opinion on the relationship between the prewar newspaper and the postwar decal? My theory is outlined above.

When did the US come into WW II?

Thanks for posting the pics - they came out well.

I pulled the pickup out and found the newspaper stuffing. The date was 25 Jan 1942. The decal and newspaper date strike me as interesting, as it suggests that the guitar was completed, except for the decal, then sat in a warehouse until after the ...

Thanks Peter and Richard,

I'm new to the forum platform, so I'm not sure how to post pics. Do I just add them as attachments, and is there a size limit? I've just taken a few and they run about 750K each as taken.

The tone is metallic, and doing a tap test, I don't think this one has any ...

Thanks Richard.

Now I'm feeling really pleased. I bought it from Elderly Instruments a week ago as an NS, and those guys don't often make mistakes. What made me think it was postwar was the decal badge rather than the metal ones that I (with my little and recently acquired knowledge) had ...

Hi Folks,

I'm new to this forum, and joined because I have a strong interest in the technicalities of guitars including "string-through" pickups.

I play lap steel, among other things, and recently purchased a model advertised as an NS. Superficially it looks like what I think of as a typical ...