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Some pics of my newly acquired SHO-BUD

Comments welcome

Looks like a Sho Bud "The Professional. Rack and barrel undercarriage, infinite raise/lower, sounds awesome; if you can get new barrels, clean it up real good and make sure you have the travel/slack right on the KL's and pedals, you'll love the guitar. Really easy to work on and make copedant changes. Ricky Davis is the man who really loves these guitars. I use to own one. My guess is that yours is somewhere between a 1970-1974 model. John Coop can make your parts and between he and Ricky, you can have one fine axe.

Looks like they used some pretty "sick" wood on the top and then the front piece got real plain ! You're teasing us Brian with no front pics! Enjoy your new guitar, it looks like a winner!

Baskets and barrels, and no coil tap? Check you pickup wires. If there are three wires, you have the ability to have coils tap pickups. My S-10 Bud came as a lower-end model. 3 and 1 with no coil taps. Before I sent it to Ricky Davis for some additions, (now 3 and 6), Ricky asked me to look under the guitar and see how many wires were coming from the pickup. There were three, and one was not hooked up! Ricky installed the needed coil tap switch. I believe the wires were Red, black and white.

Weird, it doesn't have the undercoating sprayed on it, like most Professionals. There are no holes for coil taps or neck selector switch on the end-plate... Let's see some pics of the rest of it.

Judging by the inlay - which you can see on another thread - and the lack of coil taps, I'd say 69-71.
Is the neck selector or coil taps between the necks?

Looks like I can just see the switch tip between the necks in the second pic. And you can see the switch body beteween the necks in the underside shot. I still wanna know how many wires are comin' outa the pup.

[quote="John Billings"]Baskets and barrels, and no coil tap? Check you pickup wires. If there are three wires, you have the ability to have coils tap pickups.

The pickups have the coil tap wired in to either side of the pickup selector which is between the two necks.

I'll post some more topside pics tonight. Those underside pics were taken when it was up on my bench and the front normally faces into the wall in my studio.

Just bought two sets of strings to put on tonight!

Sweet Shobud!! I bet it sounds great!!

Joe A. Camacho wrote:Weird, it doesn't have the undercoating sprayed on it, like most Professionals. There are no holes for coil taps or neck selector switch on the end-plate... Let's see some pics of the rest of it.

The story told to me by the guy (Bruce Hamilton) I bought it from is that it was a prototype built for Bobbe Seymour. I emailed Mr. Seymour with the serial # which is 8073 and he confirmed that was the case. So at serial number 8073 what year would that place it in.

It does have a three way pickup selector and coil taps for each pickup. I'm not crazy about the pickup switch where it is cause I keep knocking it when I play but for now I'm loathe to make any changes. I really like this guitar although the only other PSG I played was a carter starter which felt kinda light in comparison. The only thing I wish is that the knee levers were a little closer to the player side of the guitar. (I have short thick legs)