The Steel Guitar Forum

Wonderful story!

Thanks John for those "shining" examples of your work.

Wow! beautiful, John.

Ricky, thanks for posting Lloyd Green's comments for us all. It's always interesting and a pleasure to read anything he has to say.

I also have a permanent and a couple fingertips that are in various stages of rebuild, if I ever can find the time.

Chas, what kind of keyless units are those?

I wanna coop my guitar, those parts seem great!!

John, they're Kline tuners. The guitar was made in 1978 and was the 3rd one, which I found out recently. Originally it was made for Ralph Mooney, but he didn't like it, so Red Rhodes got it, and he didn't like it either. Back then, I was just getting started and would buy anything that was black and silver, so I bought it from Red. I also had a single neck Emmons and even though I couldn't play well enough to save my life, I could tell that this was a particularly bad sounding guitar.

I had access to the machine shop at Warner Bros. and I made aluminum fingers to replace the pot metal ones, then I made aluminum necks and welded them to the changer housings, then following the logic that pot metal is bad, I wanted to replace the keyheads. Kline guitars, graciously, was willing to sell a couple of keyless heads and I installed them. This gentleman gave me the ultimate compliment by saying, "sounds like you cleaned up this one."

Chas!
I thought so! I have a Kline U-12. Joe engineered a wonderful keyless design.
My guitar just,,,, stays in tune forever.

John,

Great looking work..looking forward to getting my 6139 back after Ricky Davis works his magic with your parts!!

Here's a very beautiful old Sho-Bud that I happened to see on Bobbe Seymour's website. Gorgeous n'est pas?

Does anyone know why some Pro 1s have the logo (Pro 1) on them and others dont. Was it just a year of production thing ? I have the round front early 70s Pro 1 with the logo

Richard,
That's because Sho-Bud made 2 sgl neck models for awhile in the mid-70's.
They made the ProI, and the 6139. The 6139 was an older model that started out as rack and barrel and got upgraded as time went on to 2-hole pullers, first with barrels, and then with nylon hex tuners. The only difference between the two models was that the 6139 came with only 1 KL, and was minus the ProI decal.

Here's my 6139 that I bought new in 1972.


And while we're at it, here's my SuperPro.

Skip, thanks for the explanation on that. Both your guitars look real nice, and I'll bet they sound great too.

1976 Left-handed LDG. Looks like it just walked out of the showroom!

Unusual ShoBud LDG Custom. New Truetone on front neck.

Here's the BOMB. First year LDG('73) barrels behind two hole pullers--single raise/single lower. Original coiltap pickup----------tone and sustain for days, and used on many recordings. Played through a '71 Fender Twin Reverb non master volume with Jan Philips 6L6 GC power tubes. Owned by Ricky Davis. (picture posted with permission, of course, AH-HA!!) Of course, this is MY living room, 'cause Ricky and I swapped guitars for a few months. Ricky's amp and my amp are nearly the same, except I favor the Altec 418B's and Ricky favores the JBL D130's and K130's. We both have the green Rick Johnson cabs, inspired by Lloyd Green. Thanx for the inspiration, Lloyd!!
We still sound like us, though!!

Russ Tkac wrote:I had a 1970 Professional but right now these are my Buds.

gotta love them beagles
my pride and joy...Kimber

I jus like lookin at the pictures

Larry! Great looking pup!

Great picture too!

I like the Buds too. Old picture. Old band.

heres my ol Professinal

I guess while were at it I may as well post a pic of my PROIII.

Here's my Professional that I bought from Frank Patterson. Currently it's gettin some of Ricky Davis's tender lovin care and some of Coop's awesome parts.