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Topic: NOS Sho~bud changer ? |
Steven Welborn
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Ojai,CA USA
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Dave Meis
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Olympic Peninsula, Washington, USA
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Posted 17 May 2019 4:05 pm |
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| Looks slotted to me, but not a very high res photo... |
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Ian Worley
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Sacramento, CA
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Posted 17 May 2019 5:18 pm
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All the stuff that guy on ebay has are the later pot metal style with the slot for the string end. The fingers in the picture are the last generation Super Pro style, they have the extra offset on the lowering scissor. He doesn't seem to know much about steel guitars, everything he is selling seems to be labeled as "Sho-Bud" despite the fact many items clearly are not. His description that these are for all Pro Series is inaccurate.
Sho-Bud stopped using the aluminum fingers with the pin around '73, they were on the old Professionals, single raise, single lower, Perhaps a handful made it onto the two raise changers around early '74. If you need those older style fingers, aluminum top w/string pin and 3-piece scissor, Michael Yahl makes and sells really nice replicas: https://www.psgparts.com/Finger-Assembly-Professional-100-101-001.htm. The ebay fingers are a completely different design and not interchangeable without some mods.
What are you using them for? Are you intending to replace the changer on a Bud, or building something from scratch? If the latter, that is a reasonable price for a new changer assembly, but there are several other bits you will need before you have a complete functional changer.
Last edited by Ian Worley on 17 May 2019 5:24 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Kevin Fix
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Michigan, USA
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Posted 17 May 2019 5:23 pm
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| Super Pro fingers with the slots. I bought four of them about a year ago. I had a couple of mine with wear marks from the mouse ear. Exact part. He has a lot of Bud parts. Great outlet. He has the fingers by their self. I think they were $45.00 a piece. |
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Steven Welborn
From:
Ojai,CA USA
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Posted 17 May 2019 7:11 pm
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"What are you using them for? "
I just bought a S10 lap made from a pre '73 Sho~bud. You can see in the non pedal section in the '10 string mongrel from ebay' thread. The finger top sections were chopped off to mount the changer on the deck below very unevenly resulting in half the mass of the finger removed (see pic in other thread). IMO would've been a much better idea to leave the whole upper finger intact and route out enough wood in deck beneath to clear the fingers. Finger mass= tone/sustain. Other wise the thing is solid and well built.
Thanks for the info on those ebay part sourced pot metal dudes. The PSGparts.com look good. I have to decide how much to spend on this. |
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