ShoBud fingertip

Silas Hamilton · Post by **Silas Hamilton** » 10 Mar 2021 6:09 pm

Iâ€™ve finally bought my dream guitar. A fingertip. 8x4, ive spent a ridiculous amount of time searching for one. Not totally sure the year, i think its a 65.

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Kelcey ONeil · Post by **Kelcey ONeil** » 10 Mar 2021 6:39 pm

Awesome!
You need to bring her by for a visit!

Silas Hamilton · Post by **Silas Hamilton** » 10 Mar 2021 6:44 pm

Kelcey ONeil wrote:Awesome!
You need to bring her by for a visit!

Once she gets here and all that i definitely will!

David Ball · Post by **David Ball** » 11 Mar 2021 2:37 am

Nice! Congrats.

Dave

Marco Schouten · Post by **Marco Schouten** » 11 Mar 2021 5:05 am

Awesome. I guess it's a bit later than 1965, the rollers in the keyhead seem to be large. I think that the earlier ones used string ends as rollers.

Eric Dahlhoff · Post by **Eric Dahlhoff** » 11 Mar 2021 10:34 am

Wow! The inlay is wild

Great piece of history there. Enjoy!

Liam Sullins · Post by **Liam Sullins** » 11 Mar 2021 2:50 pm

Glad I found that one for ya Silas! Another dream of mine is to own one of these. Can't wait to hear it!

Dave Campbell · Post by **Dave Campbell** » 11 Mar 2021 3:21 pm

cool!

Joel McCoy · Post by **Joel McCoy** » 15 Mar 2021 12:31 pm

Congrats on a real nice steel. I dig the maple and rosewood and that inlay is real neat! Is she all original? How many Knees?

Silas Hamilton · Post by **Silas Hamilton** » 15 Mar 2021 1:07 pm

Joel McCoy wrote:Congrats on a real nice steel. I dig the maple and rosewood and that inlay is real neat! Is she all original? How many Knees?

Original as far as know, it comes tomorrow. 4 Knees.

Joel McCoy · Post by **Joel McCoy** » 15 Mar 2021 2:51 pm

Silas Hamilton wrote:
Joel McCoy wrote:Congrats on a real nice steel. I dig the maple and rosewood and that inlay is real neat! Is she all original? How many Knees?
Original as far as know, it comes tomorrow. 4 Knees.

Haha, my bad it's right there in your first post, 8x4. Here's to you having a great NGD tomorrow.

Mark Durante · Post by **Mark Durante** » 18 Mar 2021 6:22 pm

I imagine you could order knees but as far as I know Fingertips came stock with no knees at all and some came stock with one. Some of you guys know more than I do though, maybe someone might chime in...

J. Michael Robbins · Post by **J. Michael Robbins** » 25 Jan 2022 12:50 pm

Hi Silas,

Ricky Davis can provide you with a lot of information on Fingertips, as well as other types of Sho-Buds.

By the way, I'm friends with your aunt Amy Wheeler in Hickory. She was showing me a video of you playing an Emmons last Friday evening. I just now connected the dots! Looking forward to meeting you.

Congratulations on your find. I'd love to take a look at your new guitar!

Mike Robbins

Jeffrey Shu · Post by **Jeffrey Shu** » 1 Feb 2022 6:55 am

Howdy Silas,
Do I remember correctly that you've had another Sho-Bud? Your profile says a Pro I? Curious what you like about the Fingertip?

Liam Sullins · Post by **Liam Sullins** » 7 Feb 2022 11:15 am

Jeffrey, Silas is a very good friend of mine and he let me buy it from him. All I can say is that it is killer, stays in tune, and the tapped pickup is to die for.

Jeffrey Shu · Post by **Jeffrey Shu** » 7 Feb 2022 11:59 am

Liam, thanks. Silas is a heck of a player, for sure. Maybe you know, then - curious about the differences between Sho Buds? What makes the Fingertip different from a Pro I? What does he like about his new one? What do you like about your new one

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Liam Sullins · Post by **Liam Sullins** » 7 Feb 2022 6:47 pm

Mechanically they're both all pull changers! Just different styles, his uses something called two hole pullers with barrels to tune the raises/lowers. Mine uses different bell cranks and it uses your fingers to tune it. I like mine because of the sound and vibe I get from old Sho~Buds. There is just something about it.