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Topic: old sho-bud LDG (need parts)! |
Ben Godard
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Jamesville NC
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Posted 7 Oct 2013 4:39 pm |
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I have a Sho-Bud I am trying to fix up for a friend. I don't know what the age of this guitar is but it has the wide floor pedals. The headstock shape has the spur shape instead of a standard traditional headstock. Also, it doesn't have nylon tuner nuts, Instead it has little silver metal pieces. They look like short, socket cap screws except they are hollow. But yet I don't see any threads in them. It looks more like teeth that bite on the rod. Or maybe I am looking at it wrong.
Anyway, I never had a sho-bud before and I am trying to fix a few small things. One, I need one of those little silver tuner nuts. I had one to break off. ALso the previous owner dercided to just cut out the rod that lowered the 9th. I like that change and I need a rod and another tuner nut to fix it.
Anybody? |
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Lane Gray
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Topeka, KS
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Posted 7 Oct 2013 4:49 pm
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James Morehead has the parts.
The rods spin, the brass barrels where the rods meet bellcranks do the tuning. Very handy, in that a "single raise, single lower" can actually have as many raises (or lowers) as you have cross rods.
I'm using the system for my goofy universal. 45 pulls on 12 strings.
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2 pedal steels, a lapStrat, and an 8-string Dobro (and 3 ukes)
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Ben Godard
From:
Jamesville NC
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Posted 7 Oct 2013 5:02 pm
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| I'm not at the guitar now, but from what I remember, the rods just slip through those brass pieces. I am probrably dense but I don't see where the adjustment is. Why didn't they just use nylon tuning nuts on a threaded rod like everyone else? |
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Lane Gray
From:
Topeka, KS
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Posted 7 Oct 2013 5:27 pm
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Look closer at the barrels: they're in 2 pieces.
The end AWAY from the changer screws onto the rod.
If you spin the rod WHILE YOU ENGAGE THE PULL (if you don't, nothing happens), the other bit presses against the swivel on the bellcrank (or rack), and screws in or out.
Why? 2 rods per string, and unlimited number of pulls per string. My copedent calls for 5 raises on two strings. Try doing that on any all-pull other than Excel.
Unparalleled flexibility.
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2 pedal steels, a lapStrat, and an 8-string Dobro (and 3 ukes)
More amps than guitars, and not many effects |
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Lane Gray
From:
Topeka, KS
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Posted 7 Oct 2013 5:41 pm
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Look at threads here or in steels for sale on Pro 1, look at the underside.
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2 pedal steels, a lapStrat, and an 8-string Dobro (and 3 ukes)
More amps than guitars, and not many effects |
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Ben Godard
From:
Jamesville NC
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Posted 7 Oct 2013 6:02 pm
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OK
I'll take a look when I get home. Thanks a million. BTW it sounds like a genius design. |
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Tom Wolverton
From:
Carpinteria, CA
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Posted 7 Oct 2013 9:35 pm
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Does it look like this down under?
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