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Topic: Can Someone Tell Me What This Steel Might Be? |
Billy Henderson
From:
Portland, AR, USA
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Posted 3 Nov 2006 9:31 am |
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| No pic but I ran across a steel with no name, serial #, nothing to identify it but it is a double neck I think about 8 floor pedals and no knee levers. It is playable but some of the pedal rods are missing and it is a sparkle blue color. Looks like a good project for someone. I am mainly just curious. I think it is for sale not sure. It has been sitting up for years. |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 3 Nov 2006 10:15 am
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No ID, no SN, no levers, and...sparkle blue?
Sounds like a late '50s home-made. |
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jim flynn
From:
Salado,Texas
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Posted 3 Nov 2006 1:29 pm
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Sounds like you are looking at a "little Buddy"
lots were built and still out there. |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 4 Nov 2006 4:56 am
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I've never seen a "Little Buddy" without at least one knee lever. The S-10's were usually 3+1, and the D10's were either 8+2 or 8+4. The doubles were called "Little Buddy Pro", I believe.
It's a pretty much cheap "home-brewed" type guitar in design, worth about $100 tops. (Most of these used to wind up in the trash after the pickup, keys, and a few other useable parts are removed. Now they hawk them on ebay to uninformed buyers.) |
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Jerry Delpaz
From:
Dalton Georgia USA
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Posted 11 Nov 2006 8:53 pm
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| I am a beginner myself and I have a Little Buddy s-10.It has a name on it as all of the Little Buddies I have seen or a stamp of the outline of Texas.Mine is a 3 & 1.I never heard of one with 8 & 0.Like the one gentleman said I think this must be a home made model or it would have a name or at least a serial# someplace. Jerry |
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Chris LeDrew
From:
Canada
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Posted 12 Nov 2006 9:58 am
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This is a Little Buddy Pro, originally 8+4, that I inherited about 2 years ago. I'm still in the process of properly converting it to an SD-10, but the parts are very worn and the guitar is almost unusable as it stands right now. The changer is shot, and the undercarriage is very gummy. I used it live for about 8 months, but had to get another guitar because it just wouldn't tune. For sentimental reasons I'd like to get it back up and running, but I think I'm fighting a losing battle. I can see what Donnie's talking about. The tuners are original Klusons, and the pickup sounds great and looks to be a Sho~Bud. Other than that, she's pretty much beat. My attempts to simplfy it into an SD-10 didn't help matters much.
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Mike Ester
From:
New Braunfels, Texas, USA
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Posted 12 Nov 2006 12:31 pm
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| Looks like a GFI fretboard on that steel, Chris. |
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Chris LeDrew
From:
Canada
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Posted 12 Nov 2006 1:16 pm
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| Ya, I noticed that too. But it seems original to the guitar......was this fretboard style kickin' around back in the 70's? |
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Steven Black
From:
Gahanna, Ohio, USA
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Posted 13 Nov 2006 6:14 am
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| Best advise, is if you are want to get this guitar up and running you will have to strip it down and rebuild it with new parts and updated changer. |
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Chris LeDrew
From:
Canada
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Posted 13 Nov 2006 6:17 am
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Steven, there's no doubt this thing needs a new changer and parts. I'm not sure I'm willing to invest that much into it, especially with a mint Pro 1 parked next to it.  But it's alright for right-hand practice when the Sho~Bud's out at a gig. That's probably the most I'll ever used it for. |
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Larry Custer
From:
Tennessee, USA
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Posted 14 Nov 2006 5:29 pm
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| Guys,it looks like a GES,George E Sell,they were made in Philadelphia,Pa.i have a friend who has a 11 string one,they have a sloppy changer.I've only ever seen 3 for these steels.My friends did not stay in tune well. |
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