1930s/50s Richter/Silvertone Frankenstein Rubber Bridge Electrified Parlor Guitar

I do love rubber-bridgers! This is one I whipped-up for a local musician. He'd gone up to our "graveyard" of gear and picked-out this old Richter guitar from the flock. I'd gotten this in trade ages ago but it had a trashed neck and, to be honest, the body was completely trashed as well with numerous, difficult-to-repair cracks throughout. He liked the stencils and the neck shape, however.

The unfortunate bit is that I could not reuse the original neck. That had been broken in several places at the headstock and one at the heel and had been poorly-repaired and was just too fussy to go back together in a healthy manner. I thus searched-around for a similar neck off of a guitar with a wrecked body and found the nice, Harmony-made, Silvertone, Stella-style neck you see on it now and mated it to the body after fixing all of the body's various woes.

A lipstick pickup, simple volume/jack wiring harness, new tuners, and glorified setup-side work then yielded this finished product. I'm hoping it remains a keeper for the new owner.