This guitar was an early and rare departure from Rickenbackerуs standard lap steel fare in the у30sяa full-bodied рelectro-Spanishс guitar with a horseshoe pickup and side-to-side vibrola system designed by Doc Kauffman. This vibrola was an appendage that would adorn Rickenbackers through the late у50s. This guitar has a dark brown woodgrain finish and metal рRickenbacherс (with an рhс) badge on a pearloid headstock veneer. The рhс in the name was replaced by a рkс in the mid-у50s.