Tell us about the one steel that got away, And you miss.....

Bobbe Seymour · Post by **Bobbe Seymour** » 27 Aug 2007 8:21 pm

Just one, why you miss it. When it got away and where it is now.

Remember, just one, the one you miss most.

Stu Schulman · Post by **Stu Schulman** » 27 Aug 2007 9:07 pm

Alright Bobbe here you go.Jimmy Day wanted me to buy one of his Blue Darlin's in about 1975 it was a Sho-Bud D-10 8+2?can't really remember how many knee levers.It was a faded turquoise color..there were decals for fretboards that you could see the wood thru,big brass roller nuts,Jimmy was going to sell it to me for $800.00 I had a friend who was going to lone me the money..I didn't think that I was deserving of the guitar,So I passed on it.

Dom Franco · Post by **Dom Franco** » 27 Aug 2007 9:10 pm

D8 50's Stringmaster dark Brown transparent finish (Walnut?)in near perfect condition, Lolly pop tuners, all straight no rust, Chrome pickups (one on the lower neck was not working) With original tweed case good condition.
My dad purchased it for me in 1963 used, for about $200.00, and I foolisly sold it in 1981 to pay the rent! I had bought a Shobud LDG and never thought I would play non-pedal again?

Dom

Fred Bova · Post by **Fred Bova** » 27 Aug 2007 10:47 pm

A "Wright Custom" D-8 All in Birdseye Maple. I sold it to buy a new Emmons S-10 "sight unseen" in 1970.
After getting the Emmons I realized I had sold the better Built, and better Sounding guitar.

I hope someday to find another one, but I doubt I ever will. If I knew where it was I would bug the owner without tire until they would GIVE it to me to get me to stop calling or stopping by.

Jody Sanders · Post by **Jody Sanders** » 28 Aug 2007 12:28 am

Bobby Garrett's ZB. Lots of memories of good music and good times evolved around that guitar. Jody.

Ben Elder · Post by **Ben Elder** » 28 Aug 2007 12:33 am

ZB S-10 #0248. Had this for a few years before I re-lived the Aesop's fable about the dog who, looking at his reflection in the water, dropped the bone he had in trying to get the "bigger" bone he thought the "other" dog had. I sold the S-10 to buy a D-10 that proved to be too much work and a hair-pulling frustration (as evidenced by my first several ranting SGF posts three+ years ago.) Five or so owners later, it's in Northern California: I've tracked its moves here on the Forum.

I also sold an Emmons student model (for $225--a $100 profit in 1987) because I already had the S-10 ZB which the previous owner had already "lifted" 2"--an alteration I definitely need. (The Emmons was bound for New Zealand, the new owner told me. His shipping problem.)

With all "D'oh!" respect, things have worked out over time as I now have a minty blue/natural '69 ZB D-10 (with some Sonny Curtis/Tammy Wynette history attached to it), a nice '69ish Sho-Bud 6139 3+1 (tone-issimo!), a candy-apple red Fender 800 and, on its way, a near-NOS (so saith the seller) ZB S-11 student model.

Nick Reed · Post by **Nick Reed** » 28 Aug 2007 1:40 am

Bobbe,
The one I miss and wish I'd kept was this '76 Fender/Sho-Bud I traded to you about 20 years ago.

Don't get me wrong, I traded for a sweet Pro-1 Sho-Bud that I still have. I only wish now that I had bought the Sho-Bud striaght out and had put that Fender under the bed. Nick

Mike Perlowin · Post by **Mike Perlowin** » 28 Aug 2007 3:00 am

Sometime around '81 or '82 I had a drop dead gorgeous sunburst MSA SD-12 Vintage XL stolen, along with an LTD 400 ad one of the 2 string E-bows.

It was a truly beautiful guitar. I wish I still had it. Fortunately it was insured, so at least I didn't lose any money.

But there's more to the story. This guitar more or less fell into my lap, and I already had both the green maple/lacquer guitar that's in my avatar, and my white Mica one.

I felt that I didn't need 3, so I decided to sell the white one. Then I got a phone call from a local player who wanted to sell another maple/lacquer MSA 12 string. I told him I already had 2 maple guitars, plus a mica one that I wanted to sell, and he got all excited because he actually wanted a mica one, so we traded. I then sold the guitar I got from him to the fellow from whom I had bought the mica one in the first place.

Each of those guys ended up with the other's guitar, and each one swore he got the better end of the deal.

Shortly after the SD-12 was stolen, the guy who bought the mica guitar called me to tell me he decided that he preferred playing a D-10, and wanted to know if I was interested in buying back the guitar, which I did.

I still have it. The guitar got away, and then came back.

Jerry Hayes · Post by **Jerry Hayes** » 28 Aug 2007 4:56 am

I miss my old ShoBud S-12.... I got it new in 1977 at Nash's Music in Inglewood, Ca. It was a blue finish over maple and a really nice looking guitar.

I played it as it came for about six months before I changed all the knee levers around and added a vertical. I also added an Emmons pickup and eventually got it up to 8 floor pedals and 7 knee levers before I started taking things off.

I had it about 13 to 14 years before I got my current BMI S-12 with 8 & 5. When I sold the ShoBud it had 4 FP & 5 KL still on it and sounded great but the body was a little rickety.

The last time I saw it, a guy here in Va. named Mike Munden was playing it with a band called Wooden Nickle. I really miss that old guitar but my BMI's doing the job now.

last year when I was in St. Louis I saw a S-12 ShoBud just like mine with 7 FP & 4 KL in the consignment room for only $1800. I went to find my wife to get the credit card but when I returned with her it had been sold and was on it's way to Denmark or somewhere like that..........JH in Va.

Paul Wade · Post by **Paul Wade** » 28 Aug 2007 5:12 am

around 1993 i had a chance to but one of my p.s.g teachers j.c.h d-10 with 9+9 on it for "are you sitting down for this" $1400.00 i turn it down

because i thought it was too much of a guitar for me
what was i thinking!!!

Herb Steiner · Post by **Herb Steiner** » 28 Aug 2007 5:19 am

Emmons #1164007W... a woodneck with the original soapbar pickups. It had bounced around between Mike Cass, Paul Warnik, and myself (as a lot of instruments seem to have done!

), and probably you as well Bobbster.

Anyway, since I owned #1164008W (still do... great sounding horn) I was kind of charmed to have consecutive serial number Emmonses within the first 10 serialized, but the guitar didn't fit me and I traded it back to Cass 'cause he wanted another PP. He ultimately sold it to a guy in Japan, so there's one that went bye-bye never to return to Paul, Mike, or myself.

Tony Prior · Post by **Tony Prior** » 28 Aug 2007 5:21 am

Actually what a hoot. The Steel I let get away I believe I sold to Bobbe Seymour many many years back !

A mid 70's D-10 Pro III Black 8+4 which I bought new...

I miss it, bobbe would you please send it back to me ...

At the time I was not playing Steel anymore , actually not playing anything...I didn't even know who bobbe Seymour was

Now that I think of it, who is he ?

tp

Kevin Hatton · Post by **Kevin Hatton** » 28 Aug 2007 8:48 am

ZB S-10 last year. They just aren't out there.

Tony Rankin · Post by **Tony Rankin** » 28 Aug 2007 8:56 am

This is the one I regret letting go.

But, I still have these.

Micky Byrne · Post by **Micky Byrne** » 28 Aug 2007 9:02 am

Hey Jerry, I know exactly where you're at because you know that was the exact same 'Bud as mine that burned in the house fire, even to the Emmons pick up and the double raise/single lower. You also know and commented when you saw it all rebuilt

It's a keeper, and I don't think I'll ever sell it even if I'm down to bread and water

Micky Byrne Carter and Sho-Bud universals
United Kingdom www.mickybyrne.com

B. Greg Jones · Post by **B. Greg Jones** » 28 Aug 2007 9:04 am

I had a ZB D-10 ser# 0183, that was my 1st doubleneck. I wish I had never gotten rid of it years ago. I got it from Mike Sigler. It went through Bobbe's shop on a trade deal I think. Don't know where it ended up, but I would buy it back in a heartbeat!!!

I also miss a ZB SD-11 that I got from Tom Brumley. It was one of his personal guitars. Had it for 10 years and he wanted it back, so I traded another guitar for it. It had to have been the best playing ZB built.

Greg

Jim Kennedy · Post by **Jim Kennedy** » 28 Aug 2007 9:42 am

About fifteen years ago my wife was bugging me to start playing pedal steel. I didn't know a thing about it. We were in Petaluma CA in a music store that had a Dekley double neck for $450.oo. Had no idea if that was a good price or not, if it was good sounding, good playing. Hind sight is always 20/20.

Eddie Harper · Post by **Eddie Harper** » 28 Aug 2007 5:04 pm

The one Steel I wish I Still Had I Bought From You Bobbe about 7-8 Years ago. It was a new refurbished Rosewood Emmons Legrande 1983 D-10. I had never owned an Emmons before and as Herb Steiner said earlier in his post about a guitar not being a fit for you I just couldn't seem to get used to it. I eventually traded it to Frank Estes for his 1999 Black D-10 Carter and Frank sold it back to you Bobbe at the Chatanooga Steel Show. Everytime I set down to play I always remember the Emmons and wish I still had it and maybe by now it would have been a good fit for me.........Eddie

Charles Rainwater · Post by **Charles Rainwater** » 28 Aug 2007 5:50 pm

Around the mid-sixties I was in the Navy and I happenend into a club In ocean view Va, and they had the best pedal steel player I had ever heard. It was Bobbe Seymour. I said Man what do I have to do to sound like that, He said I can fix you up. He built me a pedal steel and I have been hooked ever since. Bobbe I talked to you briefly at the Fulton Ms. jam in may. I wish I still had that Guitar I would donate it to the Bobbe seymour collection.

Skip Cole · Post by **Skip Cole** » 28 Aug 2007 8:00 pm

The '75 P/P that i traded to my friend Dennis Manuel, for his Lashley Legrande back in ??. Both fine steels, maybe Dennis will let me pick on ol " Emmo " again one day.

Skip

Post by **Dave Mudgett** » 28 Aug 2007 8:08 pm

Please, Bobbe - don't get me going. It's painful.

Bobbe Seymour · Post by **Bobbe Seymour** » 28 Aug 2007 8:19 pm

I understand Dave, bless you, all of you. This could be a more painful subject than I though it was going to be in the beginning, I can hear the feel the soul and deep feelings in all of you. I know, I have many of these feelings of my own.
Bobbe

Thomas Stanley · Post by **Thomas Stanley** » 28 Aug 2007 8:49 pm

Hey Bobbe ... that would be "that" piece of steel that is sitting in someone's repair shop I know with four wheels on it! Tom Stanley!

Charles Davidson · Post by **Charles Davidson** » 28 Aug 2007 9:01 pm

Bobbe I can't remember how many guitars I have either bought or traded with you over the yearsThe one I wish I still had was a mint Zum 12 string uni.Some I came to the store and bought,several over the phone,All the ones I bought sight unseen were exactly as you said they were.Just wish I had that Zum back.

Henry Nagle · Post by **Henry Nagle** » 28 Aug 2007 9:22 pm

I miss the same S10 ZB that Ben Elder had. I've been trying to get it back forever, but I know that the current owner appreciates it and that's comforting.

On the bright side; I just got my latest ZB S10 back from Billy Knowles and it's looking like it may be a suitable replacement. Thank you Billy!

Interestingly, my current ZB, I bought from Ben Elder who was also trying to replace our old guitar.

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