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Topic: MSA vs Sho-Bud Bridge |
Bill Duncan
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Lenoir, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 15 Jun 2020 8:44 am |
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| I am intimately familiar with only the MSA style all pull scissor-type bridge. Can anyone explain to me if the Sho-Bud all pull scissor-type bridge is better, worse, or just different? |
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Gene Tani
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Pac NW
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Ian Worley
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Sacramento, CA
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Posted 15 Jun 2020 6:49 pm Re: MSA vs Sho-Bud Bridge
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| Bill Duncan wrote: |
| ... if the Sho-Bud all pull scissor-type bridge is better, worse, or just different? |
If you're talking about the later Sho-Bud fingers with the two piece scissor, I'll go with "just different". I'm not sure about their newer changers, but the classic '70s MSA fingers are basically the same as Carter, both designed by Bud Carter I believe. There are some animated illustrations of both Carter and Sho-Bud style changer fingers in operation here: http://steelguitar.com/maps/changer.html#, you have to click on the links in the page to open the animations.
There are some quirks with the Sho-Bud design. The fingers themselves are cast pot metal (zinc) with chrome plating. The little "ear" on the steel scissor that slides back and forth over an inside surface of the finger between raises and lowers. That surface contact will eventually wear though the hard chrome and dig a groove into the softer pot metal. |
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Bill Duncan
From:
Lenoir, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 15 Jun 2020 9:23 pm
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| Thank you for the information. It is exactly what I needed. |
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