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gareth wrote:

johnhall wrote:
There were four that I remember and maybe more I've forgotten. The first ones were done by John Quarterman, then Mike Ponce and Adam Page. The last ones were done by Rick Seccombe, who was probably the most skilled of all and who also pushed the limits of the original design.

Any idea of what numbers these guys did ? I would love to know who exactly carved #26.....

Ditto for #29.

Great info, John. Thanks.

i'm sure they were just wood at this point with no parts on them thus no serial # yet ? just an outline where to carve.

Just matching pair wings, carved at the same time for continuity. There was a picture or video, I forget, of pairs laid out in various stages of carving. Anyone remember where or have it?

Thanks for the info Mr. Hall!

John, thank you for your reply.

johnallg wrote:Just matching pair wings, carved at the same time for continuity. There was a picture or video, I forget, of pairs laid out in various stages of carving. Anyone remember where or have it?

you're saying they were carved before gluing up to the center section ?

BAD RONBO, KiLLeR DWaRfS wrote: you're saying they were carved before gluing up to the center section ?

That is correct!

Here's an Erik Kutzler shot of RIC luthier Richard Seccombe carving the last batch of Lemmy's. The body wings in the extreme foreground ended up on Steve Woods' Lemmy.

There's no way at this point in time to know who carved what.

Paul, that was the picture I was referring to. Thanks.

John, not surprised. With four carvers, that would be almost impossible. The only way I could think is you'd need a fair number of them in one place across the numbered sequence and try to sort into style then assign a name by the order of sequence number. But without all the instruments, you couldn't establish a break point, nor if someone finished wings a previous carver started.

At this point as John states, there's probably no way to know.

The only people that would, would be the carvers themselves. I'm pretty sure that they would be able to identify their own work if they saw it.

At least I have a 25% chance of getting it right with a guess now. That's better than the 100% chance of getting it wrong I had before John told us the four involved.

see ! i told you all that RIC was backwards . when all the other companies would bind the whole perimeter of the body...RICKENBACKER board meeting gurus sit down and devise ways to confuse. "let's not bind the tail end of the center section so as to draw attention to our craft."

BAD RONBO, KiLLeR DWaRfS wrote:see ! i told you all that RIC was backwards . when all the other companies would bind the whole perimeter of the body...RICKENBACKER board meeting gurus sit down and devise ways to confuse. "let's not bind the tail end of the center section so as to draw attention to our craft."

Not Lemmys, but 4003 wings:

Lots of cool stuff has been detailed here.