When did Sharkfins first appear?

[THETRIUMPHOFSTEEL]

What guitar and what year did the sharkfin inlays first appear? Was it a custom option for someone? Are there any pics of the first one?

[jgcable]

Re: When did Sharkfins first appear?

Rickenbacker is the 1st company to have sharkfins. I am pretty sure they are the 1st for 24 frets and for humbuckers too.

[RacerX]

Re: When did Sharkfins first appear?

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What guitar and what year did the sharkfin inlays first appear? Was it a custom option for someone? Are there any pics of the first one?

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If you are talking Jacksons, it'd probably be Randy's black Rhoads (the first, a white one, featured block inlays). So we'd be talking 1981. I'm sure there are pics around somewhere. BRB.

[RacerX]

Re: When did Sharkfins first appear?

http://www.kolumbus.fi/kari.tammilehto/rreq.htm


http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip...5/practice.htm
(Click on Pg3)

[neilli]

Re: When did Sharkfins first appear?

I'm pretty sure humbuckers were from Gibson, but weren't Rickenbacker also the first to use the neck-thru design?

[Newc]

Re: When did Sharkfins first appear?

IIRC, the Gibson Firebird was the first neckthrough (not counting "The Log" - Les Paul's Epiphone hollowbody that he cut in half and spliced to a railroad tie for the centerblock).
I thought Ric did set-necks? [img]/images/graemlins/scratchhead.gif[/img]

And I'll hafta agree on Gibson having the first humbucker - another of Les Paul's inventions IIRC.

While other makers (Ric, etc) did have humbucker-SIZED pickups, the actual impetus for the winding method which "bucks" the hum was Les Paul's idea.

[Number Of The Priest]

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I thought it was Seth Lover from Gibson who came up with the whole "hum-bucking" idea. [img]/images/graemlins/scratchhead.gif[/img]

[Davey]

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the humbucker was seth lovers idea and patent

[Newc]

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I sit corrected then - according to the inserts for an LP box set, Les is responsible for the electrodynamic pickup and floating bridge pickup, not necessarily the humbucking aspect. I shoulda re-read it before posting - oops [img]/images/graemlins/toast.gif[/img]

[skorb]

Re: When did Sharkfins first appear?

guitar geeks [img]/images/graemlins/toast.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[Newc]

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Everybody has to be a geek about something, may as well be about guitars [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

Think about it, there's Movie/TV geeks, sex geeks, car geeks, bike geeks, construction geeks, demolition geeks, sports geeks, weather geeks, news geeks, even geek geeks [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
I mean, after all, who else is there to turn to for obscure, abstract, oft-forgotten-but-always-inquired information on various subjects? [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[THETRIUMPHOFSTEEL]

Re: When did Sharkfins first appear?

Hear hear!! [img]/images/graemlins/toast.gif[/img] And god bless all the guitar geeks out there, and in here! [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[ChlorineRR4]

Re: When did Sharkfins first appear?

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Rickenbacker is the 1st company to have sharkfins. I am pretty sure they are the 1st for 24 frets and for humbuckers too.

[/ QUOTE ]they had triangles not shark fins [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[Newc]

Re: When did Sharkfins first appear?

Yup. Fins are curved, Ric's are not.

[sully]

Re: When did Sharkfins first appear?

yep. so anyway, it woulda been randy's black v. interesting tidbit: rev sharkfins happened by accident. the story is that grover and mike s were workin late to finish the rhoads models for 83 namm, and the fins were routed reverse by accident. obviously, they went with it, and rev sharks were born.

sully