Rickenbacker Spanish

  • Rickenbacker Spanish, electric archtop guitar
    Rickenbacker Spanish

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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.

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General

Bindingwhite binding
Made inUSA
Number of strings6 strings

Body

Body back materialmaple body back
Body shape featurescarved top
Body sides materialmaple body sides
Body stylearchtop
Body top materialspruce body top
Hollow bodyhollow body
Soundhole2 f-holes

Neck

Body fretNeck joins body at 14th fret
Number of frets20 fret
Tuner layoutthree-each-side

Hardware

Bridgeadjustable bridge
Tailpiecetrapeze tailpiece

Fretboard

Fingerboard position markerssplit block fingerboard position markers

Electronics

Pickups configurationhorseshoe pickup

Controls

Tone controls1 tone control
Volume controls1 volume control

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