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Sho-Bud Super-pro D-10
Posted: 10 Oct 2010 10:46 am
by Mark Cohen
I found this link from a private dealer in LA and thought I would share. It seems a fair price for a D-10:
As it happens I work nearby this store, though I've never been there. I can check it out for a fellow steel player.
Super Pro..
Posted: 10 Oct 2010 11:26 am
by Mike Kowalik
Only a rear view pic.....hope the front isn't in bad shape.The ad also calls it the most desired Sho-Bud model.....I'm not so sure about that.
Posted: 10 Oct 2010 12:53 pm
by Mike Wheeler
Just click on the Additional Images tab and see the usual views that steelers want.
Posted: 10 Oct 2010 1:32 pm
by Brion Toland
Hi Mark,
Can you check this guitar out if you are down there and see if it looks decent? I may be interested. Also, if you can get a phone # and hours.
Thanks,
Brion
Posted: 10 Oct 2010 3:38 pm
by Darvin Willhoite
This guitar has aluminum necks, all of the other Super Pro's I've seen had wood necks as mine has. Was this a special order, or did they offer them either way?
Posted: 10 Oct 2010 4:29 pm
by Paddy Long
Darvin my one had ali necks ... I think the wood necks might have been the special order ones !!
Sho-Bud Super-pro D-10
Posted: 12 Oct 2010 6:09 pm
by Mark Cohen
I plan on taking a look at this instrument for Brion Toland. If I can take pictures, etc..., I will post what I find. I doubt that the store will know if this was a special order, but I bet that there is plenty of support on the forum to find out.
Posted: 12 Oct 2010 6:14 pm
by Skip Edwards
Not a special order. Super Pro's were made with either wood or metal necks, with wood necks being in the majority.
Posted: 12 Oct 2010 11:08 pm
by Mike Cass
If you have someone go down and eyeball it for you, try to get them to see if it has the pot-metal or the aluminum changer fingers. The way to tell: aluminum fingers have a pin for the ball end of the string to attach to, pot-metal has a slot.
Aluminum fingers are rare on SuperPro's but definitely more desirable. The reasons being that the pot-metal ones tend to snap off underneath, and if they have any string grooves up on top its pretty much impossible to get them out. However, the price looks right and Jeff Surratt @ ShowPro could change out the fingers to aluminum for you if needed. Good luck.
Posted: 13 Oct 2010 7:56 pm
by chas smith
The fingers are pretty shiny, I'll bet they're pot metal.
Posted: 14 Oct 2010 8:54 am
by Brint Hannay
Mike, I'm wondering if you really meant to say that the pot metal changer fingers tend to snap off.
It's well known that knee lever brackets tend to snap off (happened to me once--since then my Super Pro has all replacement aluminum brackets), and issues with grooves in changer fingers are sometimes mentioned, but I don't think I've heard of fingers snapping off before.