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Hi all;
Well, I finally got around to picking up my 10 string and the serial number shows to be as follows

7-202-202

Now, it's a Sho Bud (single 10) with, hearts, spades, clubs and diamonds, inlayed in the neck. That is about all I know. I will post a pick when I get back from NC. It has 4 peds (all on the left side), and one knee bar on the right side. It has the hex nut and thumb adjusters sticking out the right end on the guitar. One toggle switch, one 1/4 jack hole and one knob that says tone. It's a beauty, just like new! I love it!

Does anyone know where I would go to break down this serial number so I can learn just exactly what I have?

Please advise,

Thanks,
Doc

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Doc, from what you say here it sounds to me that you have a single neck "Fingertip." I have a D-10 Serial # 7 213 213, which is alledgedly a 1967 model, the "7" meaning 1967. I would guess, and it's only a guess, that your's was made sometime in the era just before mine was due to the closeness of the numbers---but I have no idea how the "serialing" of numbers went in those days. I wish I could talk to David Jackson and some of the family who were in Sho~Bud at the time and talk to them about the "fingertip" and the serialing. As to "vintage?" Well, I guess you could call it "vintage" since there have been so many improvements in the pedal steel since that time. The "fingertip" was Sho~Bud's first attempt at an "all pull" changer. It has great sound but without some newer, modern parts to "update" it, it is still a tempermental, mechanical monster, which is why they ceased production. I also understand that they started production on the fingertip before the "permanent" completely ceased production, which it is my understanding was the "original" of the Sho~Bud guitars after the prototypes were tested. For more history, Duane Becker has done a good job of researching, as best he could, the various models of the Sho~Bud on the "Sho~Bud Unoffical Web Site" put together by Greg Simmons at [url=http://www.planet.eon.net~gsimmons/shobud/index.html]www.planet.eon.net~gsimmons/shobud/index.html[/url] Best regards.<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Larry Harlan on 17 August 2003 at 04:40 PM.]</p></FONT>