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Very cool. Sorry to say, I never made it to the factory.

But hey...is that pic with the pedal bars and 3 pedals reversed? Are they for left handed steels? Or maybe the pedal assemblies haven't as yet been slid over to the other side of the pedal bar?

I must know...

Thanks, Bas. A snapshot of steel guitar history.

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Skip,

You are so right! Don’t tell anyone, I have corrected the picture

Bas

I believe the black permanent guitar with the spade inlay belonged to Jimmy Day?

Yes, it's me building pedal bars. I absolutely love these pictures. They truely bring back fond memories!
It's Yasu? I miss him so much! He tuned the guitars and much more......
Dad was so young and the "kid" is my younger brother Brian Franklin. I can't wait to show these pictures to dad.

Thanks, for posting history here. I loved working for Shot, David & Harry!

p.s. I'm thinking the guy is ? might be Paul Daniels. Leslie Elliot might know for sure.

Hi Theresa,
Glad you like my shots. In the tread on the store Dan Tyack wrote this:

I used to hang out in the Sho~Bud store/factory because I had a crush on a red haired girl named Theresa who worked there (along with her Dad).

I guess he never made the connection.

Thanks for this post...a GREAT history lesson. Just one of the many reasons I love this forum!

Here are two pictures of Lloyd Green playing on my Sho~Bud in the Sho~Bud factory in 1978 or 1979.
A friend of mine picked it up when he was in Nashville.Wish I still had it.

I visited Nashville in 1979 and got to meet
Shot. Pics hereunder.
He was a funny man..chewed bacci like my son.






Anyone know the man in the background?

Does any one know if the large bldg up the hill on the left was the P.O.?? Tracy

Could that be Gene Martin in the background? Shot hired him away from the Grammer Guitar Co when he started making ShoBros (Dobro's).

I was going to guess that the young boy was Paul Jr. Guess i got the right family though . I bought my first steel , Maverick , in ' 77. God bless Shot and all the folks at ShoBud for such a fine steel guitar through the years.
Skip

I edited my original post above to read
my trip to Nashville was in 1979(not 1970
as previously stated}

So in the photos above ....that was Shot
in 1979..month of May.

Roy

Could that be Doug Jernigan in the background of those last two pictures of Shot?

How darn many guitars were they building in those days????
Theresa, I knew they couldn't have had very many pretty redheaded ladies working there so it about had to be you!

Thanks Doug!
Louie, I don't think it's Doug.

Wow! Just found this thread by accident. So glad I did

I just returned from Nashville and of course I went to Roberts to see where my LDG was built. I'm trying to put these pics in perspective with what I saw there. Can anybody add information on the pics, which floor, facing which direction,etc.

Thanks for posting these pictures.
When I saw them I cried. Not that I knew any of these folks or about the factory it was the fact that in the 70es when we returned home from Nashville my wife passed away and it was on that trip that I first saw someone play one of those contraptions. So I thought I had to have one.
Right after that I bought my first used D-10 Sho-Bud which I still have. It was a beautiful light blue with the birds eye showing through but by the time I got around to learning how to play it the steel had like the Statue of Liberty turned a pretty green except the PSG had birds eve showing through.
Now that I have retired it's turning gold with birds eye showing through.
Still plays good and that alone proves it's held up better than I have.

Bas Kapitein wrote:

Is the man seated at the guitar the same guy who eventually moved to Japan and started making the Canopus non-pedal guitars? I'd read that he worked for Sho-Bud in the 70's.

Everything about this Sho-Bud discussion is very interesting to me! I'm a huge Sho-Bud fan and my favorite Sho-Bud model is the Super Pro. Sho-Bud is a steel guitar that's got great history behind it.

Brett

Even tho this thread is almost 5 yrs old it's absolutely fascinating. I'm confused on one point that maybe someone can clarify for me.
I was having my 1976 LDG adjusted at Show Pro a year or so ago and had the pleasure of meeting and talking with Mr. Surrat while he worked on my guitar. He saw that Duane Marrs had signed off on my guitar and told me all about him and how he came to know him. I asked if my guitar had been built at the building now occupied by Western World, and he said it was more likely built at a location that was somewhere down near the river. Can't remember exactly but I think he said that building was no longer there....might be a condo or apartment or something now.
Anyway, wondered if anyone could fill in the blanks for me.

Just stumbled across this thread....think it answers my question but not sure.
http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopi ... cf67b92a8c

I just love all the history of our instrument and the people who invented it, improved it, built it and play it that you learn from reading the Forum. Wish I could have seen the ShoBud factory back in the day...

Thanks for reviving this old thread. It's sort of bittersweet in that they are no longer being made. There must have been hundreds of them, at least, being played around the country during that period.

I was living out on Gallatin Road as a student at the Auto Diesel college there in '64. I remember seeing a building with big Sho-Bud letters around town there, but I can't recall the exact location. At that time, I knew nothing about steel guitars, but the image of the logo on that building stayed with me all these years.

I first visited Nashville in 1971. I must have gotten my Sho-Bud just months before. Of course exploring Sho-Bud, the Ernest Tubb Record Shop and all the local landmarks was fabulous. Didn't Roy Wiggins have a music shop in that area as well? I marveled at Tootsie's though I was too young to go in Pretty heady stuff for a 17 year-old kid.