A rare and beautiful find

John Davis · Post by **John Davis** » 29 Apr 2023 11:32 am

Not sure if it will take the picture

The little Fender/ Shobud (if the picture loads ) is one of the nicest I have ever found[/img]

John McClung · Post by **John McClung** » 29 Apr 2023 12:31 pm

Nice herd! One of my students had a Fender/Sho-Bud, it sounded great, played smooth, and had the least amount of cabinet drop I've ever seen. A real bargain if you find one.

Jerry Overstreet · Post by **Jerry Overstreet** » 29 Apr 2023 1:56 pm

Great looking little Fender Artist. I'm still jonesing to get my hands on a D10. Used to be able to buy one for cheap, but anymore they've gone stupid expensive when found.
Guess I'll never know....might not like it anyway.

John Davis · Post by **John Davis** » 30 Apr 2023 1:11 am

I have never before seen an elevated ashtray mounted in this way must be the last before the Gumby headstock.
The guitar is so positive to play hardly any movement required to make the changes ....it just needs to be "Day" set up to make it perfect.

Steve Hinson · Post by **Steve Hinson** » 30 Apr 2023 5:56 am

I think all those F/S~B guitars were built in Nashville,TN...

I've lived here 46 years and I've never seen one!

SH

Jon Light · Post by **Jon Light** » 30 Apr 2023 7:44 am

I was about to ask if anyone thought that maybe this guitar had been rebuilt and rehoused in a custom cabinet with upgraded features (raised neck and tuning tray etc.) but a quick search turns up multiple examples of this. Here's one (and Google turns up some D-10's too). Live & learn.

https://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=212542

Great looking guitar!

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 30 Apr 2023 8:08 am

There are a few Artists posted here on the forum that have the raised keyhead and neck, but there are also some simpler looking Fender Artists listed online... with more of a student model look.
One of my students had a D-10 Artist many years ago. I played it a couple of times and I was impressed with it. It had a good solid feel and played smoothly.

From Reverb, listed (probably incorrectly) as a 1965 Artist:

Jerry Overstreet · Post by **Jerry Overstreet** » 30 Apr 2023 8:16 am

Fender/sho-bud Artist guitars had 3 models available in either that mahogany color or black.

There was a D10, and S10 with the raised neck and keyhead.....and an S10 student without the raised neck and keyhead.

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 30 Apr 2023 8:19 am

Ah, that makes perfect sense, Jerry. So the "Artist" could be a student model as well as a pro model. Kind of confusing.

Jerry Overstreet · Post by **Jerry Overstreet** » 30 Apr 2023 8:23 am

Well, I might have misspoken. The 70s Fender line is what I should have written.

The Fender student model had the same features of the pro Artist without the raised neck and keyhead. I'm not sure if it was part of the Artist line, but I think it had the same changer etc. but came with only 1 lever......But, it can be confusing, yes.

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 30 Apr 2023 8:39 am

Yes, confusing, especially when online sellers list guitars incorrectly, like that "1965 Artist" which was probably not made in the 60s and is not an Artist.

Jerry Overstreet · Post by **Jerry Overstreet** » 30 Apr 2023 8:49 am

Well, I'm kinda in over my head here, I just know they were all from the same era had the same appearance less the raised neck etc. I've seen the student S10 Fenders listed as Artist.

I read last week where someone said, Kelcey, I think that these were built only in 1976, 77.

Over 45 yrs. ago so some of the info gets lost over the years so I'll defer to the more knowledgeable.

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 30 Apr 2023 9:09 am

This 1977 Fender Catalog (Japan) lists the Student model as such, although some sellers today list it as an Artist.

Ronald Korza · Post by **Ronald Korza** » 30 Apr 2023 10:00 am

Hwy Doug,
I had the Student S-10 when I first took lessons from you years ago.
I think I got that Guitar from Joe at Downtown Sounds.

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 30 Apr 2023 11:36 am

Hi Ron, wow, that was a long time ago. I only remember the S-10 Dekley that you had. Can't remember what you had before that. We also stocked Carter Starters back then, but I think you were taking lessons before the Carter Starter came out.

Dan Beller-McKenna · Post by **Dan Beller-McKenna** » 1 May 2023 3:02 am

The Artist had a different changer from the student model. The Artist was a full all-pull (2/2?), while the student model was a pull release. Not sure about the student, but the Artist had knife edge fingers (no axle).

I briefly owned an Artist S-10. I liked it okay, but I had to replace the pickup, and discovered that there is no way to adjust pickup height on this axe. It sits directly on the bottom of the pickup cavity. As it originally came with a very shallow pickup, I had to have one custom made; no commercially available steel pickups would sit low enough to clear the strings.