1950s Rickenbacker B6 Lap Steel Electric Guitar
Update 2025: I originally sold this to my friend Rob but he's mostly playing acoustic-style lap guitars, these days, and so this is surplus to his needs. It arrived back here just as it left! Original description below...
It's a classic! It's hard to argue with the tone and presence of a Rickenbacker horseshoe pickup mounted in a bakelite steel. It's sing-song, raise the roof sort of stuff and has peaks in the upper-mids that are just lovely.
This one's in excellent shape, ready to go, and features the cool "panda" scheme -- white "face" plates on the black body. This one has an integrated tailpiece plus "floating" bridge style rather than the "termination" style tailpiece/pickup plate found on the earlier models.
Those knobs, too...? Oh man!
I didn't restring it for the video so tuned it up to "open A" like bluegrass G tuning but up a full step -- that suited the strings on it at the moment.
Repairs included: It got a quick setup/adjustments.
- Weight: 9 lbs 5 oz
- Scale length: 22 3/4"
- Nut width: 2 1/4"
- Neck shape: flat/rectangular
- Body width: 9 1/4"
- Body depth: 1 3/4"
- Body wood: bakelite
- Bridge: bakelite
- Pickups: 1x original Rickenbacker horseshoe single coil
- Action height at 12th fret: n/a
- String gauges: it has electric 11s on it right now, tuned to open E
Condition notes: It's all-original and pretty dang clean save minor scuffs to some of the white-painted plates and a little edgewear here and there.
It comes with: It has a non-original, hard case.
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