[Close] No Name Pot Volume Pedal

Jerry Overstreet · Post by **Jerry Overstreet** » 9 Jun 2020 2:43 pm

Big ole volume pedal no label anywhere I can find.

It has some age as it has cloth insul. wiring.

Old style 500K AB pot. Works good. Measures app 11 1/2 X 4 3/4 X 3.

I got this to help a friend that thought they wanted to learn steel guitar, but since dropped out and I don't need it.

$80 + $15 US Mail shipping in conus. Money Orders only. Thanks.

Please close this classified.

Jerry Overstreet · Post by **Jerry Overstreet** » 15 Jun 2020 7:17 am

folks wanna know if this is made by sho-bud. I dont know. It has no markings anywhere. It has the same Falcon bird pattern cutout in the bottom.

May have been made by them for someone else or just an early ed. You can compare pics.

Robert Rogers · Post by **Robert Rogers** » 16 Jun 2020 9:21 am

Jerry do you think maybe it was a sho-bud proto type pedal?

Jerry Overstreet · Post by **Jerry Overstreet** » 16 Jun 2020 12:23 pm

Don't know Robert. Looks like all the others. Don't matter, I guess...works just fine.

Jerry Overstreet · Post by **Jerry Overstreet** » 21 Jun 2020 6:45 am

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Clyde Mattocks · Post by **Clyde Mattocks** » 21 Jun 2020 12:21 pm

Definitely a Bigsby copy, but Sho-Bud and Marlen made look alikes.

Jerry Overstreet · Post by **Jerry Overstreet** » 24 Jun 2020 7:13 am

Thanks Clyde. I dunno who cloned who, but this one is still available. It's not the name that makes it, but I guess they can stick whatever name label on it they want. I'll drop the price to $75 + the shipping, but that's as best as I can do.

Jerry Overstreet · Post by **Jerry Overstreet** » 9 Jul 2020 7:51 pm

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Jerry Overstreet · Post by **Jerry Overstreet** » 16 Jul 2020 5:13 am

No love for this big daddy? ðŸ˜ž

Jerry Overstreet · Post by **Jerry Overstreet** » 8 Sep 2020 10:08 am

Smooth action, good old style pot. Buy a $5 sho-bud vp label from psg.parts if you want to have a brand ID. Looks like there are a few of these pedals of the same design. $75 + shipping.

Eric Denmark · Post by **Eric Denmark** » 11 Sep 2020 6:51 am

If this is still available at the end of the month, when I get paid, I want it! If someone else grabs it between now and then, that's cool! Have a blessed day!

Jerry Overstreet · Post by **Jerry Overstreet** » 11 Sep 2020 10:12 am

TY Eric...we'll see. Hope you can pick it up.

Eric Denmark · Post by **Eric Denmark** » 11 Sep 2020 2:02 pm

Yessir, thanks!

Jerry Overstreet · Post by **Jerry Overstreet** » 5 Oct 2020 8:15 am

Still available.

john buffington · Post by **john buffington** » 5 Oct 2020 12:03 pm

May be a Marlen less the decal?

Jerry Overstreet · Post by **Jerry Overstreet** » 9 Oct 2020 8:07 am

I dunno John. What's in the name on this old style pedal anyway? Seems to me they're all the same regardless of the label.
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I guess it would be worth something if it only had the Sho-Bud name engraved on it.ðŸ˜

john buffington · Post by **john buffington** » 11 Oct 2020 9:25 am

I agree Jerry, it is a volume pedal! Good point.

Jerry Overstreet · Post by **Jerry Overstreet** » 20 Oct 2020 6:43 am

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Philip Mitrakos · Post by **Philip Mitrakos** » 29 Oct 2020 4:56 am

I think what you have there is a Sho~Bud volume pedal and someone sanded down the aluminum until the show Bud logo was gone

Jerry Overstreet · Post by **Jerry Overstreet** » 29 Oct 2020 5:54 am

Thanks for your input, but I don't think that's the case. On an engraved Sho-Bud pedal, it's cut in there pretty deep. It would take a lot of sanding to remove that, more like grinding, and the dimensions don't show that. It's a perfect taper from front to back. About 2" in front. It does not show any signs of being modified or ground down that way.

It does appear there has been some light polishing on the very front face. My guess that there was a label that got scratched up and someone cleaned that off and polished it.

I think Sho-Bud did have some vp's with a label on the front face, but I don't know that. [I do know that psgparts.com does show a label for a Sho-Bud volume pedal.] Or it may have been one of the other brand labels that folks mentioned above.

Odd how a label, or lack of one, makes a product.

It's OK though, I used it the other night. Someone had expressed interest in it, so I connected it and played it with a lap steel for a couple hours to check it out again. It's fine and the Allen Bradley pot is nice and quiet. It does have a little mechanical noise from the spring, but I mean a little and you wouldn't notice it playing. It might could be tweaked to eliminate, I dunno, but I'm not going to pursue that tiny issue. I guess I can just keep it and use it myself. It works just fine, thank you, and it's not eating anything.
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Dennis Detweiler · Post by **Dennis Detweiler** » 29 Oct 2020 5:58 am

I agree with Philip. I still use a 1970 Sho~Bud pedal that looks exactly like it except the logo is missing on this one. Maybe someone played an Emmons guitar and wanted to hide the fact that he was using a ShoBud pedal? Extreme fix to his perceived embarrassment or hate of ShoBud?

Dennis Detweiler · Post by **Dennis Detweiler** » 29 Oct 2020 6:02 am

Yes, could be earlier than 1970. Shot or Buddy would have known for sure.

Jerry Overstreet · Post by **Jerry Overstreet** » 29 Oct 2020 6:06 am

This pedal has not been abused. Has had a foil label removed at the worst, there has been no grinding or defacing of the metal.

Dennis Detweiler · Post by **Dennis Detweiler** » 29 Oct 2020 7:13 am

Jerry, I'll take it. I'll PM you and you can give me the address. I'll send a money order.