Can Someone Tell Me What This Steel Might Be?
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Can Someone Tell Me What This Steel Might Be?
No pic but I ran across a steel with no name, serial #, nothing to identify it but it is a double neck I think about 8 floor pedals and no knee levers. It is playable but some of the pedal rods are missing and it is a sparkle blue color. Looks like a good project for someone. I am mainly just curious. I think it is for sale not sure. It has been sitting up for years.
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I've never seen a "Little Buddy" without at least one knee lever. The S-10's were usually 3+1, and the D10's were either 8+2 or 8+4. The doubles were called "Little Buddy Pro", I believe.
It's a pretty much cheap "home-brewed" type guitar in design, worth about $100 tops. (Most of these used to wind up in the trash after the pickup, keys, and a few other useable parts are removed. Now they hawk them on ebay to uninformed buyers.)
It's a pretty much cheap "home-brewed" type guitar in design, worth about $100 tops. (Most of these used to wind up in the trash after the pickup, keys, and a few other useable parts are removed. Now they hawk them on ebay to uninformed buyers.)
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I am a beginner myself and I have a Little Buddy s-10.It has a name on it as all of the Little Buddies I have seen or a stamp of the outline of Texas.Mine is a 3 & 1.I never heard of one with 8 & 0.Like the one gentleman said I think this must be a home made model or it would have a name or at least a serial# someplace. Jerry
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This is a Little Buddy Pro, originally 8+4, that I inherited about 2 years ago. I'm still in the process of properly converting it to an SD-10, but the parts are very worn and the guitar is almost unusable as it stands right now. The changer is shot, and the undercarriage is very gummy. I used it live for about 8 months, but had to get another guitar because it just wouldn't tune. For sentimental reasons I'd like to get it back up and running, but I think I'm fighting a losing battle. I can see what Donnie's talking about. The tuners are original Klusons, and the pickup sounds great and looks to be a Sho~Bud. Other than that, she's pretty much beat. My attempts to simplfy it into an SD-10 didn't help matters much.
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