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Are there button top poles or are they flat-topped and metal looking.

They are the button types. On the bridge pickup.

Then it is not alnico pole pieces, but the plastic magnet under the coil.

Thanks John, Works for me - liking the sounds I'm getting out of it pretty much tuned in set up wise.

Anymore Sept guitar manufacture anniversaries out there?

My 330 MG BT is Sept 92.

Mark,
I'm really delighted that a guitar guy picked up something from the steel section of this board.
It's really nice to know that at least a few Ric freaks are really interested in the history of their phenomenal electric instruments.

First, a little background.
In the early to mid 60s I played R&B and even made some money doing that. I always loved the looks of Rickenbacker guitars, but I never owned one, they just weren't the sound and tone I needed at the time. I completely stopped playing in 1968, when I started medical school, not because I wanted to, but because I had to for obvious reasons. Keep in mind I'm a complete blues freak and have been since the mid 50s.
Skip ahead to 1991.
I was at a joint one night, digging Sonny Rhoads, playing some pretty great blues guitar. Second set, he sits down and played unbelievable stuff on lap steel. I talked to him for quite a while between that set and the next, and he hipped me to open tunings and lap steels.
A few days later I bought my first lap steel and haven't stopped since.
Here's my Ric collection.

I have been collecting lap steels since about 1991.
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I can't seem to make this work just right.

But to make a long story longer. My favorite Rick is the one pictured in the photo section of the Rickenbacker Forum, an A-25 Frypan, 1932, s/n 28. It's considered the "holy grail" among lap steel players and collectors.

I bought it about eight years ago from an antique dealer friend of mine in Philadelphia. He knew I collected these things. He just didn't know what he had.
http://www.main.rickresource.com/

Wow! That's an amazing collection, Rich. Thanks for sharing. Some of those old Nationals look pretty amazing, too.

Friendly reminder time -

Do you have a guitar built in Oct? This is your month to brag about it!

So here we are in November... any guitar anniversaries out there?

walker wrote:So here we are in November... any guitar anniversaries out there?

Well, not exactly, but it is one year ago this week that my v68 arrived home from Dale! I'll have to check my serial #'s when I get home, to see if i've got any real November babies.

walker wrote:So here we are in November... any guitar anniversaries out there?

Yes! My 77 4001 has hit the big 3-0!

Congrats, Robert! Is that the same bass shown in your avatar? Are you the original owner?

No, that's my 07 4003 in the pic. The bass turning 30 is Fireglo. I wish I was its original owner, but I was 3 when it was made!

Sorry! Hard to tell from the tiny avatar pic. Besides - I'm lousy at guessing age as it is. How about posting a pic of the '77...