Tatado Heaven

[jps]

Has anyone else come across this? There are some interesting Ricks I've never seen before, particularly one in the center column a bit more than halfway down the page.

http://www.tatadoheaven.com/Ric/germancarve.html

[jps]

BTW, the instrument in question seems like another Forrest White prototype. Hmm.....

[chronictown]

Cool...love the azureglo 4005 and those wacky R tail-piece prototypes.

[jps]

The tailpiece on the guitar (strung up) is a Roger tailpiece, the long one on the left is for a 360F. I love the small belt buckle R tailpiece.

I just read through the whole page and just noticed the prototype R tailpiece at the bottom of the page. Interesting, sort of a cross between a Rick and a Gretsch tailpiece.

[johnhall]

BTW, the instrument in question seems like another Forrest White prototype. Hmm.....

Unless you're speaking of one of the Fender instruments, there is nothing made by Forrest White shown on this page.

[jps]

Thanks for the confirmation; the one in question has a body similar in shape to the bass prototype he made. What can you tell me about the FG guitar with the chrome plate that has 4 switches like that on a Fender Bass VI, and two slash soundholes? It's filemane is 69proto

[libratune]

This one?

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I believe it has 3 or 4 pickups hidden under the 'guard. I can't recall where I read about it, though.

[jps]

That's the one.

[sloop_john_b]

The "Porky" Freeman guitar. Tried over at Fender with the Marauder too.

[jfine]

sloop john b is right. That's the Porky Freeman setup with four pickups hidden under the pickguard--apparently, when the Fender Marauder didn't work out, Freeman tried to interest Rickenbacker in the concept. I've never seen even a pic of that prototype with the binding on top, but there's another one out there somewhere that I actually played at a vintage guitar show a few years back, also a single-cutaway, but with rounded edges, almost like two post-'64 curve-tops placed back-to-back, but like I said, single-cut. Maybe Rickenbacker was considering a rounded-edge version of the 360F body style. That guitar was for sale at that show--I thought about making an offer on it, but the price was way too steep--$5000 as I recall, and that was 14-15 years ago. Not a very practical guitar, either--the pickups were extra-hot single-coils so they'd pick up the string vibrations from under the pickguard, and in actuality they produced more hum than signal. That's probably why the Marauder never made it to production, although I understand that CBS/Fender was actually getting orders for them.