Fender/ShoBud in 1946?!

Joerg Hennig · Post by **Joerg Hennig** » 10 Mar 2003 1:00 pm

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2514800480&category=33039
Is this a joke? I didn´t know they made them that far back...

Bob Knight · Post by **Bob Knight** » 10 Mar 2003 1:09 pm

'60s Maverick

Bob Blair · Post by **Bob Blair** » 10 Mar 2003 1:21 pm

"Joke" doesn't even begin to describe it. It is listed as a "1946 Fender National Sho Bud Pedal Steel Guitar". And as Bob says, it looks like Maverick. Ouch!

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 10 Mar 2003 2:36 pm

Theres one born every minute, and the seller seems to trying to find one. Any true collector would know.. and bid on it for what it was... or not, based on the stupid description. What a nimrod!

Chris DeBarge · Post by **Chris DeBarge** » 13 Mar 2003 5:34 am

I sent him an email informing him of his mixing up of decades. More like a 1976!

VERNON PRIDDY · Post by **VERNON PRIDDY** » 13 Mar 2003 7:02 am

That Is A Maverick But Not A 1946 They Were Not Made Back Then. SONNY.

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SONNYPRIDDY

David Doggett · Post by **David Doggett** » 13 Mar 2003 12:16 pm

This is a strange animal. It looks like a mid '70s Maverick, except they were covered in vinyl. Possibly this one was stripped and refinished, or a custom natural body was made for it. It looks a little wider than a typical Maverick. Also, the legs look solid and adjustable, which I don't think the Maverick ever had (they had aluminum tubes). The Mavericks started with the neckless vinyl covered body and Fender type ash-tray key heads like this one around '75. Before that they had a natural body with a neck and a Pro type key had with rollers. The earliest ones around '69-'70 had the old original Sho-Bud key head without rollers and some were painted with enamel (I had one of these that was baby blue).

If this is not a stripped and refinished mid '70s Maverick, then it could be something much older that has been customized with an amalgam of Fender (ash-tray keyhead) and Sho-Bud parts (fret board, pedals, etc.).

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 13 Mar 2003 1:20 pm

Mebe it's a Lil' Buddy on steroids?<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by David L. Donald on 13 March 2003 at 01:20 PM.]</p></FONT>

C Dixon · Post by **C Dixon** » 13 Mar 2003 1:21 pm

$305 and "reserve not met yet". wow!

Somebody done been taken; not to mention if someone "meets" the reserve.

Oh well, Ole P. T. Barnum's words are verified all the time; over and over.

God bless the person who buys it. They ARE going to need it.

carl

RON PRESTON · Post by **RON PRESTON** » 13 Mar 2003 5:32 pm

It looks like a Maveric, but, I would go so far as to say that someone took the pedal rack and legs from a PRO I Sho-Bud, but, if that were the case, then they had to make the end plates to match the theaded legs, because I thought that all the Maverics' legs were put in a round slot and tightened with wing screws. Also, the maveric had very thin, narrow pedals if I remember right. My 1st steel was a maveric, and I added 4 more Knees, including the RKR that was already on it. Plus, I LOWERED the 4th and 8th, and raised the 4th and 8th a half tone. We will go to the end of the earth to have a steel with everything when we get our 1st steel. At least I did.
Wish I had it back now. It was quite the conversation piece.

Bob Knight · Post by **Bob Knight** » 13 Mar 2003 5:36 pm

I stated eariler, It's a 60s Maverick

Al Marcus · Post by **Al Marcus** » 13 Mar 2003 9:51 pm

The only Pedal guitar that I recall on the commercial market was Gibson Electra-harp and Multi-Kord. The Gibson was introduced around 1941-42 and the Multi-kord in late 40's as far as I can remember....al

Chris DeBarge · Post by **Chris DeBarge** » 14 Mar 2003 5:30 am

Seller ended early due to "an error in the listing". I hope he's trying to be honest, but we'll see when it gets relisted.

David Doggett · Post by **David Doggett** » 14 Mar 2003 8:12 am

If Bob Knight is right about it being a '60s Maverick, then Duane Becker needs to update his unofficial Sho-Bud site. He says Mavericks started production in the early '70s. I have a '72 Sho-Bud catalog showing the first model Becker describes, a natural curley maple body with a neck and a Pro type teardrop key head with rollers. I bought a used Maverick from Bobbe Seymour around '74 that was maple painted with baby blue enamel (at the factory) and had an old teardrop keyhead without rollers. So I always figured that was one of the first ones, around '69 or '70.

I then have a '75 Sho-Bud-Gretch color brochure showing the brown vinyl covered no-neck Maverick with the ash-tray keyhead. This is by far the ugliest pedal steel guitar ever made by anyone - worse than the South end of a baboon heading North.

This thing on e-Bay looked like one of these later versions stripped and refinished natural with lacquer. But it looked like it had Pro type legs and pedals. All the Mavericks in the '70s had aluminum tube legs and the earlier ones had the standard Sho-Bud wide gridded pedals - don't know about thin pedals on the later ones.

So is this thing like Bob says, a '60s Maverick with a natural lacquer body, no-neck, Fender style ash-tray keyhead, and Pro type legs, pedals and pedal bar? If so, it might be worth a little to the one or two Maverick collectors out there, but not for anyone else.