The Steel Guitar Forum

I started taking off my old strings------and just couldn't stop!! Time to run through it and clean her up and do a few tweeks I've been putting off.





Now the WORK starts!! Glad I'm half crazy!!

I hate when that happens.

Well it certainly looks clean now!

Disco here, and disco there! I think!!

James I can remember those long rainy days in Ok. but instead of tearing a steel guitar down I usually ended up increasing my family!

Larry

Must of stopped raining cause the pickups, neck and fretboards are still on the guitar!

James,

Is that the steel you had with you down at Tulsa alongside the ol' finger-tip???

That steel, and the finger-tip too, were slicker than hog snot!!!

Casey

Other than a major lube job what are some of the tweaks you want to do?

I hope you downloaded the assembly manual..

Maybe if you demagnetize the parts they won't stick together like that...

Greg

I figure there should be enough parts left over to make a lap steel.

Yeah, Casey L. That's the one! I figure to kick it up a notch or two in the sparkle department. The fingertip is living with Ricky Davis for awhile.

If it don't quit raining here, I may have to put my endplates back on and put some oarlocks on it to get to town!

If my Bud doesn't start doing what I want it to do mine may end up looking like that to.

Gee, when I do a complete teardown, I don't have my parts anywhere near as neatly organized as you do! I've GOT to get my act together!

Yeah James, I'm with ya on the rain thing.

I'm about ready to tie some floaties & empty milk jugs on my LaGarritt & Z.B. in hopes of using them to float to safety.

This rain is insane!!!

Have fun puttin' your baby back together.

Stay dry,

Casey

P.s. I'm not sure you can get that thing to do any more sparkling...it's a clean machine!!!

Please send the rain to Alabama, GA, Fla

thank God it doesn't rain much in Charlotte !

tp

If we could just get someone to slip a few extra parts from another guitar into the pile, we could really mess with his mind....

I bet it's much lighter now!

James,

Hang on...........I just booked a flight. I'll be there tomorrow evening. Everything will be alright. Just hang tight 'til then. I the meantime, do not try to remove the lacquer..........it's already shiny, hear me? It's already shiny.

My Dad used to take watches and clocks apart, and he could never put them back together again. He had boxes and boxes of empty watch cases. This photo reminds me of long evenings with parts spread all over the dining room table, and my Dad scratching his head. Strangely, this fact never prevented him from taking the next one apart.

Good luck ! Try not to have too many parts left over after you've finished.

ill just keep playin my bud dirty.........

Now thats what I call 'cleanin er up'!! Hope you can remember what goes where on the way back!! Reminds me of the time I decided to become a motorcycle mechanic, to my knowledge that bike is still sitting around some junk yard with a big ? mark on it!! Good luck with that!!

Ernie Pollock
http://www.hereintown.net/~shobud75/stock.htm

James knows what he's doing.......he can reassemble an Emmons with Sho~Bud parts on a Mullen.

Seriously, James has done several Coop rebuilds himself. If anyone knows where all these parts are supposed to go, it's James.

I used to have an old Sho-Bud crossover that looked like that once every week or 2, in my never ending quest to do something to make it stay in tune.

OK, now how long did it take you to arrange the parts as we see them here?

Obviously a labor of love!

That makes me think of Tim The Tool Man for some reason. You're not gonna put a Chevy big block in it, are you?