AND mine has the rarer amplified case !!

See the rest of mine including the case/amp here http://steelguitarforum.com/Forum2/HTML/009001.html
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Steel players do it without fretting

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[This message was edited by basilh on 21 May 2006 at 04:25 PM.]

On a slightly different slant (Ugh), if the guitar HAS been used as a lap steel, it's MOST likely that the neck has suffered the usual fate of these guitars, and is now doing an impersonation of a 'Banana' !!

It looks like this one HAS suffered a similar fate, judging by the lack of 'side on' pictures and the action at the end of the fingerboard in THIS picture. :-

And this one confirms it..

A 'Gary Glitter' neck

Any I've seen have warped and sometimes twisted necks, I presume that's because they were owned by 'Ordinary' guitarists, they tried lap tunings WITHOUT changing string gauges.

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There also were imported and re-badged model B Lapsteels. Funnily enough not as common as the 'Electro Spanish' (Common probably is not the right turn of phrase, as they were and are fairly scarce.)

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1936 Rickenbacker Electro Spanish Model B

Rickenbacker Solidbody Guitars

Pre-War Models
Electro Spanish Model B, available 1935 to 1943.
1935 specs:
Black bakelite body, horseshoe pickup, 5 chrome plates on face, 1 octagonal knob on lower bass bout, detachable bakelite neck with molded frets, string thru body.
1938 specs:
2 round knobs with ridges, one black and one white.
1940 specs:
5 plates on face now white.
Discontinued 1943.

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Having now acquired a Fender PS-210 I am disposing of most of my guitar collection, and concentrating on just Fenders. The Gretsch's The Hofner President, Gibson Multiharp, Gibsons EH-185, 150 and Kalamazoo, and some of my Takamine's