1956 RIC for $500 BIN....!

bob_atherton · Post by **bob_atherton** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 10:11 pm

Don't know much about this kind of thing, but looks like a good price to me.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=41439&item=7334936333&rd=1

edski · Post by **edski** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 12:27 am

Probably could sell the horseshoe for more than the BIN. Looks like a good candidate for donatione of PU surgery.

phlemmy · Post by **phlemmy** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 12:45 am

rickenbac"H"er?

marc61 · Post by **marc61** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 1:04 am

If you just wnated the shoes, you should have grabbed this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=41439&item=7334909073&rd=1

Steel guitar guys get ****** at this but, if you grab one of these, you have magnetized shoes, the base,screws,springs. What you don;t have is a pickup or surround, but I've done this several times. Most notably on my 73 project where I BT'd the shoes.

I consider that pickup, with magnetized shoes and the reissue v63 pickup inside to be the most awesome combo.

edski · Post by **edski** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 2:45 am

Rickenbacher was the OLD style spelling. It's legit. Not sure what year they went to the "correct" spelling...

rickfan60 · Post by **rickfan60** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 3:46 am

There was alot of anti-german sentiment after WWII so many german names were disguised by minor spelling changes. I don't know when the spelling of Rickenbacher/Rickenbacker changed but the two were used simultaenously for a while. Apparently until the factory used up it's inventory of -bacher decals.

I bought a few steels like this one for $250 - $300. The $500 BIN is no bargain. Those shoes would work to make a bass pickup BTW.