Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

As the owner of Dan's old C58, I find the Kaufmann to be a charming, period feature, and applaud RIC for going with it over other solutions. It is not everyone's cuppa, but I see the C58 as a historical recreation, as JH has said, warts and all. I don't think of the Kaufmann as a "wart", though. I'm a fan, both of the great look and of the weird jiggly sounds it can make. I don't play very hard, so my C stays in tune pretty well, too.

Here's a tidbit: The C58 Kaufmanns are a combination of new parts and old, NOS parts--some dating back to the 1940s. The plating, however, is brand-new.

Where do I send my deposit........

Are we talking about re-issuing the guitar or the girl? Seriously, the Kauffman vibrato has a place if history if only for the sake of preserving the name of the inventor, whose K & F (or was it F & K) lap steel company got the young Leo Fender into the instrument manufacturing business.

Don't much care for the vibrato, love the body shape

K & F