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Topic: Sho~Bud ---- 1967 |
Erv Niehaus
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Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 3 Feb 2008 7:37 am |
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I was digging through some of my "stuff" and came across the following:
This is a little pocket tuning book that Sho~Bud sent me. It contains the pedal tunings for 15 top pedal players of that day. Sadly several of them have passed away.
This is a letter of acknowledgement received from George L. Lewis with Sho~Bud after I'd ordered my new guitar in 1967. It was a "finger tip" model.
I thought you'd find it of interest. |
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 3 Feb 2008 7:56 am
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| Cool! Any pics of the guitar? |
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Sonny Priddy
From:
Elizabethtown, Kentucky, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 3 Feb 2008 8:16 am book
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| I Have A Book Just Like That from SHO_BUD. SONNY. |
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David Doggett
From:
Bawl'mer, MD (formerly of MS, Nawluns, Gnashville, Knocksville, Lost Angeles, Bahsten. and Philly)
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Posted 3 Feb 2008 1:01 pm
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According to the consumer price index, that package was worth $8,045.29 in 2007 dollars. You must have been doing pretty well back then, Erv.  |
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 3 Feb 2008 4:29 pm
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| Do you still have that Sho-Bud ? |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 4 Feb 2008 7:11 am
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I don't have any pictures and I don't have the guitar. It was a beautiful instrument but very hard to keep in tune. I traded it off after several years for a Pro III.
Al Udeen wound up with the guitar and owned it for a while and he got rid of it for the same reason, hard to keep in tune.  |
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Roger Edgington
From:
San Antonio, Texas USA
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Posted 4 Feb 2008 8:15 am
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| I have the same book too. |
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 4 Feb 2008 8:23 am
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| "hard to keep in tune" Fingertips have those knurled nuts that you tune the raises and lowers with. To try to prevent them from moving there are little springs next to those nuts. The nuts move anyway. I'm wondering if nylon nuts or even those Nylock nuts might be a better choice. |
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James Morehead
From:
Prague, Oklahoma, USA - R.I.P.
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Posted 4 Feb 2008 9:38 am
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John, I have found that my '67 fingertip is the most dead on stay in tune guitar I've played. I might have gotten a good one?
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 4 Feb 2008 9:47 am
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James, I love your guitar! I think by the time it was made, they had it figured out. The earlier models seem to be the ones that generate the complaints. Mine is actually not too bad. Here's the mandatory pic, so anyone interested can look at the differences!
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James Morehead
From:
Prague, Oklahoma, USA - R.I.P.
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Posted 4 Feb 2008 9:53 am
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Hey John, you might get fined having George L's in a fingertip, ya know!!   |
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 4 Feb 2008 9:55 am
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| BWAAAA! I do have another original pup to put back in the guitar when I get to work on it. Found it on ebay the same week as I bought the guitar! How lucky was that? |
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James Morehead
From:
Prague, Oklahoma, USA - R.I.P.
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Posted 4 Feb 2008 10:01 am
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| I'm putting a pair of Jerry Wallace Truetones in mine---Jerry made me a set to the fingertip dimensions, and they fit perfect. They are also coil tap. |
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 4 Feb 2008 10:03 am
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| James, when are you installing them? I want a full report! |
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chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
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Posted 4 Feb 2008 6:11 pm
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| i've still got the sho-bud tuning book, too....real cute! |
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James Morehead
From:
Prague, Oklahoma, USA - R.I.P.
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Posted 4 Feb 2008 8:48 pm
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| John Billings wrote: |
| James, when are you installing them? I want a full report! |
It will be after the Dallas show, and after Coop gets more important projects squared away. My fingertip is not priority, as we have bigger fish to get fried, right now. |
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Craig A Davidson
From:
Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin USA
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Posted 4 Feb 2008 10:12 pm
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And here is mine with the extra ring around the pick-up housing. It stays pretty good. Are those end nuts supposed to tighten down then when you get it in tune to help keep things from slipping?
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 5 Feb 2008 4:50 am
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They just hold the springs on, and should be tightened reasonably firmly. Craig, our guitars are quite similar. James' guitar is a bit different. Ours have the acorn nuts on the end of those "shafts." James' guitar does not. Although James' guitar does have a somewhat similar ring around the collar, errr, changer.
So, I think my guitar is the oldest, James' is the newest, you be in da middle. |
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Craig A Davidson
From:
Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin USA
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Posted 5 Feb 2008 5:09 am
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| The other night on that rerun of Lawrence Welk, I think that Lloyds was your style John. I couldn't see any piece around the back. You might call that a split-tail. Lloyd told me once that he got one of the first Fingertips. |
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 5 Feb 2008 5:15 am
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| Craig, there's gotta be pics somewhere on this Forum! |
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Ernest Cawby
From:
Lake City, Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 5 Feb 2008 6:08 am hi
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I still have one of thoses tuning books, they sold in music stores for a $1.00. I think it was Randy Beavers said the fingertip had the best sound of all the Buds but was hard to stay in tune.
ernie |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 5 Feb 2008 7:18 am
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Here is Lloyd's tuning from that book:
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James Morehead
From:
Prague, Oklahoma, USA - R.I.P.
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Posted 5 Feb 2008 9:20 am
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| My apologies, Erv, this fingertip stuff is a "little" off topic. Sometimes we tend to get a little "excited". I'll start a different thread for fingertips. |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 5 Feb 2008 9:28 am
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James,
Not a problem.
I went to a Little Jimmie Dickens concert back in 1966 and took a look at a Sho~Bud. The steel player gave me the address for Sho~Bud and I wrote them a letter about wanting a guitar. They wrote back and said that the steel player I talked to was playing an old "permanent" model and now they were building a guitar that you could set it up as desired.
This was the "fingertip". So I had one of the early models. |
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James Morehead
From:
Prague, Oklahoma, USA - R.I.P.
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Posted 5 Feb 2008 9:47 am
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Erv, It would be fun to see some pics of yours. I started a fingertip thread, if you care to through a little input that way.  |
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