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Topic: How old is this Maverick? |
Tony Boadle
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Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland
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Posted 10 Dec 2014 4:39 pm |
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Experts at the ready? Here we have a Shobud Maverick, three pedal and no knees. Colour red (!) with a teardrop machine head and an aluminium non-roller nut. I believe the colour is original, the Shobud and Nashville decals are there.
I'm hoping to purchase shortly as an upgrade project and would love to know it's build date.
Btw, no anti -Maverick comments thanks, I owned one for a short while a few years ago and really liked it![/u] |
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Lane Gray
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Topeka, KS
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Posted 10 Dec 2014 7:03 pm
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Serial number?
Obviously with Gumby and no rollers it's earlier.
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2 pedal steels, a lapStrat, and an 8-string Dobro (and 3 ukes)
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Tony Boadle
From:
Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland
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Posted 11 Dec 2014 4:54 am Maverick
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This is a long distance purchase, bought unseen ($500 including case and shipping btw)....I won't know the serial number until it arrives.
And what the heck is a gumby? You're dealing with a banjo picker here! |
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Lane Gray
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Topeka, KS
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Posted 11 Dec 2014 5:46 am
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The keyhead you call "teardrop", we call Gumby. Because it looked like the hair/horn/head of Gumby, the cartoon character.
It's worth the $500, no more than 800.
The shortage of knees will get frustrating quickly, and it is a pain to add the rest of the changes.
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2 pedal steels, a lapStrat, and an 8-string Dobro (and 3 ukes)
More amps than guitars, and not many effects |
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 11 Dec 2014 7:16 am
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The early model Maverick's had the fixed nut. Later models had roller nuts.
Forum member Blake Hawkins has one of the early models with the fixed nut and a Blonde wood body. |
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John De Maille
From:
On a Mountain in Upstate Halcottsville, N.Y.
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Posted 11 Dec 2014 7:59 am
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| I had a Maverick back in 1974 or 75, I can't remember exactly. It had no knee levers, but, I ordered a kit from ShoBud and put it on. It lowered the 2nd and 8th stings a half tone. It had the gumby headstock and no roller bridge. It was also a natural blonde birdseye maple cabinet. To me, at the time, it was a beautiful steel and played really well. I learned a lot on that steel. Of course, later on I moved up to a more professional steel with better mechanics. But, having said that, I loved that steel, it was a good guitar. If your interested in upgrading it, contact Bruce Derr who's a member here. He added a lot to a Maverick to make it be a more modern sounding steel. It was a good entry level steel for it's time, that, was mechanically sound and had that ShoBud sound. |
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 11 Dec 2014 10:54 am
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| It might have a tapped pickup too. When I got my '74, it had no tap switch. Ricky told me to look underneath for the pickup wires. Sure enough, there was one that was wrapped in tape.Ricky added a switch, and 5 more knee levers from Coop. I figured that Shot just had one pickup model made for all guitars, and saved a couple bucks by not putting in the switch is some lesser models. |
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Russell Nugent
From:
LA (lower Alabama)
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Posted 11 Dec 2014 12:29 pm
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That sounds like my first guitar - a red Maverick with no knees, Gumby head and non-roller nut. It broke lots of third strings, as I recall. I traded it (with some cash of course) for a Pro 1, which I later sold when I bought a Professional that I still have although it hasn't been out of its case since I acquired a push-pull.
Those early Maverick's sounded nice. Bobbe Seymour once told me he used a Maverick on tour with Lynn Anderson. |
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Tony Boadle
From:
Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland
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Posted 11 Dec 2014 3:01 pm Maverick
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Thanks team! This is great stuff, all positive! Keep it coming......
PS: We never had Gumby, and I bet you never had Bosco! |
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John De Maille
From:
On a Mountain in Upstate Halcottsville, N.Y.
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Posted 11 Dec 2014 6:32 pm Re: Maverick
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| Tony Boadle wrote: |
Thanks team! This is great stuff, all positive! Keep it coming......
PS: We never had Gumby, and I bet you never had Bosco! |
Bosco.... A real good chocolate syrup. I remember it well! |
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Tony Boadle
From:
Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland
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Posted 11 Dec 2014 10:34 pm How old is this Maverick?
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Chocolate syrup? Not over here! Google 'Bosco Ireland '  |
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Craig Baker
From:
Eatonton, Georgia, USA - R.I.P.
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Posted 12 Dec 2014 12:54 am
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Mr. De Maille,
If you will recall. . . Bosco was not referred to as chocolate syrup, but as a "Chocolate Milk Amplifier". I think those jars were made out of recycled 6L6s. LOL
Tony,
I played a Maverick for about two years back in the 80s. It allowed me to eat and sleep indoors. Good guitar.
Merry Christmas all.
Craig
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 12 Dec 2014 6:06 am
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Tony,
I played a Maverick for about two years back in the 80s. It allowed me to eat and sleep indoors. Good guitar. |
I love warm Maverick reminiscences. What makes a good guitar.... |
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Herb Steiner
From:
Spicewood TX 78669
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Posted 12 Dec 2014 11:37 am
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I have two first generation Mavericks. They have great sound, and since I started back when guitars had either one or no levers, I could do a whole show on one if I had to. The changer and undercarriage is essentially a Permanent, anyway.
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My rig: Infinity and Telonics.
Son, we live in a world with walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with steel guitars. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinberg? |
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 12 Dec 2014 11:56 am
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Herb,
I know you've probably been all through those guitars, but did you ever look to see if there was a third pickup wire taped up and tucked out of the way? That's how it was on my guitar, but it isn't a Mav.
John |
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Herb Steiner
From:
Spicewood TX 78669
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Posted 12 Dec 2014 12:33 pm
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The Mavericks had thinner sounding pickups than the pro guitars IMHO, and were prone to single coil hum. On the Maverick I use for non pedal, I put a 705 in the slot and that problem went away.
The SB pickup is in the garage and I'm on the road right now. My other Mav is currently at a friend's house.
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My rig: Infinity and Telonics.
Son, we live in a world with walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with steel guitars. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinberg? |
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Jerry Hedge
From:
Norwood Ohio U.S.A.
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Posted 13 Dec 2014 9:07 pm
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| I remember having a conversation with Duke Kramer, the CEO of Gretsch about the Maverick. He said that they were designed to be a rental instrument. Stores or teaching studios could have Mavericks to rent to students to give them the "steel guitar bug" much the way the accordion studios operated in the 50's. Once the student showed a bit of promise, the teacher could "suggest" that the student "needed" to upgrade to a better guitar. |
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Bill Ford
From:
Graniteville SC Aiken
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Posted 14 Dec 2014 3:50 pm
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Tony, When it gets aggravating to tune,put a very small amount of oil where the strings cross the bridge, a little trick I learned playing a non roller guitar that I had.BF
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Bill Ford S12 CLR, S12 Lamar keyless, Misc amps&toys Sharp Covers
Steeling for Jesus now!!! |
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 14 Dec 2014 3:55 pm
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Bill,
I used to rub a #2 pencil across the slots. then add a small dab of Vaseline. Tune the string to pitch, then pop it out of the groove, and do the pencil and vaseline. Then pop the string back in the groove. If it's not up to tune first, you'll just drag the lubrication away from the slot. I do the same technique with my B/G bender guitars.
JB |
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