Overview
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- electric guitars
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Dates of manufacture:
1945 to 1950
The Rickenbacker Spanish (SP model) was an arch-top acoustic-electric guitar with a maple body and a spruce top. The necks and bodies were made for Rickenbacker by another company (possibly Harmony or Gibson). The SP was made from the mid 1940s until 1950, when it was discontinued due to the high cost of the OEM bodies. The SP featured an arched spruce top with maple back and sides, a bound neck with block inlays, adjustable bridge, trapeze tailpiece and a horseshoe pickup with single tone and volume controls. The headstock featured a large t-shaped logo plate.
Specifications (19)
General
Binding | white binding |
Made in | USA |
Number of strings | 6 strings |
Body
Body back material | maple body back |
Body shape features | carved top |
Body sides material | maple body sides |
Body style | archtop |
Body top material | spruce body top |
Hollow body | hollow body |
Soundhole | 2 f-holes |
Neck
Body fret | Neck joins body at 14th fret |
Number of frets | 20 fret |
Tuner layout | three-each-side |
Hardware
Bridge | adjustable bridge |
Tailpiece | trapeze tailpiece |
Fretboard
Fingerboard position markers | split block fingerboard position markers |
Electronics
Pickups configuration | horseshoe pickup |
Controls
Tone controls | 1 tone control |
Volume controls | 1 volume control |