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Topic: Endplate Handles for Sho-Bud Fingertip |
Jason Duguay
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Massachusetts, USA
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Posted 29 Mar 2016 5:48 pm |
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Thank you,
Jason
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Jim Smith
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Midlothian, TX, USA
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Posted 29 Mar 2016 9:17 pm
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| I think they're just plain drawer handles that you could probably find at Home Depot or Lowes. |
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Jason Duguay
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Massachusetts, USA
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Posted 29 Mar 2016 9:26 pm
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ha, should have guessed it would be that easy. thank you,
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Herb Steiner
From:
Briarcliff TX 78669, pop. 2,064
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Posted 30 Mar 2016 7:08 am
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Word of advice: measure the center-center holes before you go. Fingertips are going on 51 years old now, and styles of drawer handles have changed over the years. I found only one drawer handle at HD or Lowe's that fit my Fingertip and it didn't match the original one Sho~Bud used. Might have to buy two if you have an original and want them to match.
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Chris Lucker
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Los Angeles, California USA
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Posted 30 Mar 2016 9:08 am
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You are not going to find them at Home Depot or Lowes. Go to a home or architectural restoration store. In Los Angeles we have Liz's Hardware. They have collections of vintage door knobs and hinges and drawer pulls and plumbing parts and window parts (you get the idea) pulled from homes from all eras that are either updated or torn down.
Take your center to center measurements and go find what you have to choose from. I have found the same handles used on some Bigsbys there.
Anywhere there are old homes being restored in any numbers, there is one of these stores.
If you put a modern handle on there it will always look wrong.
Emmons did it right when the put the finger grab along the bottom of the end plates. That was do you could grip the guitar and get it out of the case. The first Emmons guitars went into the case strings up. , just as Bigsbys, Wrights, Fenders, Sho-Buds and others did. It is why esrly Emmons cases have no padding on the bottom and padding inside the lid.
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