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Topic: Sho-Bud Frypan |
Kent Ross
From:
Utah, USA
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Posted 30 Dec 2008 11:10 am |
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| I have a Sho-Bud frypan #B081...I also was looking for a price to sell it for. It and the case are in excellent condition. There are a few scratches where the strings go around the tuner. My Dad has had it in a closet for several years. The steel was signed by Jerry Byrd to a guy named Harold.The signature was scratched in to make it last. Harold passed away and the steel was given to my Dad.I was the one who was asking $2500 for it...I wasn't trying to pull a "quick one" on anybody,I just thought it would be worth more with Jerry's signature. Anyway I'm just putting this out as a "feeler"...any comments are welcome. |
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c c johnson
From:
killeen,tx usa * R.I.P.
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Posted 30 Dec 2008 12:23 pm
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| Jerry had an engraver tool that he autographed the bottom plates for anyone who purchased these guitars. He usually included a message. Mine says much aloha to cc johnson. Keep your thumb pick hot. cc |
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Brad Bechtel
From:
San Francisco, CA
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Posted 30 Dec 2008 1:03 pm
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Kent,
If you can post some photos of the guitar, it will help in determining what it could be worth. If you'd like it professionally appraised, I normally recommend going through Gruhn Guitars in Nashville, TN, as their appraisals are accepted by insurance firms.
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Al Terhune
From:
Newcastle, WA
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Posted 31 Dec 2008 7:46 am
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Kent,
The lengthy post that Baz replied with on your for-sale thread is as an official-as-it-can-get (in my opinion) verification that your dad's nice guitar is one of the "legitimate" ShoBuds sold by Shot under Jerry's endorsement. I say this because the serial number you relay is B-081. The one I own is B-023, for whatever that's worth. They were crafted in the early 80's. According to Jerry, there was "very little difference" in the sound/tone (even without the horseshoe magnetized) of this guitar and the original fry pan. For me, it's my nicest-sounding lap steel amongst the vintage Fenders and Gibsons I own/have owned. I paid $950 for mine a few years ago, which I thought was a really good price. I've seen them go on ebay for $1,200 (one went for $1,500 in a "buy-it-now" auction).
Even a rare 8-string Rickenbacker panda from the 30's might only fetch $2,000 on ebay. Lap steels can be as rare as can be, but the supply/demand just isn't the same as a rare 50's Fender telecaster.
Unfortunately, now's just not the best time to get the full value (whatever that might end up being) of a lap steel -- but maybe it is. Ebay usually is what the market will pay at any given time. You can always put a reserve, but my guess is that, with the Jerry Byrd autograph (mine doesn't have one), you could get $1,200 on ebay.
Good luck, and give my best to your steeling father. I think that's great you're his bass playing son.
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Al
My equipment:
One heck of a Wife
The ghost of a red Doberman
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Ron Whitfield
From:
Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 31 Dec 2008 11:10 am To paraphrase Ahnol...
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| It's not a panda... |
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George Keoki Lake
From:
Edmonton, AB., Canada
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Posted 1 Jan 2009 10:57 pm
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I regret I have to disagree with AL when he states the JB has a similar tone to the Rick Fry-Pan. The
JB sounds great, but those old Ricks sound much better...JMHO of course. |
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Ron Whitfield
From:
Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 2 Jan 2009 11:04 am
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| George Keoki Lake wrote: |
| I regret I have to disagree with AL when he states the JB has a similar tone to the Rick Fry-Pan. |
Actually he states that Jerry said that, but I agree with GKL that most Ricky FPs top the re-makes. That said, pop a good horseshoe into one and they get better, redo the electronics and they can get better still. However, I've heard Casey Olsen play some of the most beautiful sounding steel music on a JB FP, so who's to say? |
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