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Topic: 1976 Shobud LDG |
Larry Shemwell Jr
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Central City, Kentucky, USA
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Posted 4 Jan 2021 7:11 am |
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1976 Shobud LDG 3X4 emmons setup with E’s on the left . Refurbished by Ricky Davis in 2005 and has fresh strings with about an hour playing time . It’s not mint by no means but in very good condition and comes with split cases that are in great condition as well . Not much else to say other than it’s not getting played here and I figure there’s someone out there that would gladly put it to use .
Price is $2250 and we can discuss how to ship .
Thanks for looking and feel free to message me .
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Daniel Stein
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Glen Allen, Virginia, US
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Posted 4 Jan 2021 7:32 am steel trade
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Trade for a dekley sd12? Its the first one made
Recently tuned up with some new parts
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Larry Shemwell Jr
From:
Central City, Kentucky, USA
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Posted 4 Jan 2021 8:24 am Ldg
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| Sold pending funds |
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Ricky Davis
From:
Bertram, Texas USA
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Posted 4 Jan 2021 8:38 am
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OMG; I remember this Great LDG...been around the block; then I got it...and it was great making it like it should be. That is a TRUETONE pickup made by my late best friend Jerry Wallace...as me and Jerry took several months and came up with the Best Ohmage that fits the Sho~bud Sound; if you look on bottom of that pickup you will see:
"wound by Jerry Wallace 17,500 ohms.(and I grounded it to the steel myself...ah..ha.)
BAM !!!! I miss you Jerry but I continue on in memory of you my friend.
Also signatures underneath like mine(but I misspelled "refurbish"..duh....ha...) that is
A.J. Nelson; as his the man the did the body and finish on ALL SHO~BUD's throughout all the years...but he passed couple years ago...bless his heart. And of course Duane Marrs...as he passed also and him and Paul Franklin Senior put together More Sho~bud's than anyone in History...and this is one of them....(miss you duane and thanks for teaching me EVERYTHING...and you too Paul Sr....I would NOT be me without ya'll....Bless you.)
Ricky
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Ricky Davis
Email Ricky: sshawaiian2362@gmail.com |
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Rick Myrland
From:
New Orleans
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Posted 4 Jan 2021 8:54 am
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Is there a next generation of guys who will carry the torch of refurbishing priceless pieces of musical history? Or will they simply end up on the bone yard? Sad.
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Andrew Roblin
From:
Various places
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Posted 4 Jan 2021 11:00 am
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Hi, Ricky. Buddy: A minor addition to what you wrote about my friend, AJ Nelson.
During the time I worked at the Sho-Bud store and factory, 1979-83, AJ worked only at the store, where he repaired and refinished many instruments--but no pedal steels that I know of.
During those same years, all the Sho-Bud steels that I know of were finished at the factory by AJ's brother, Doyle.
I think it was in AJ's later years, after Sho-Bud closed, that much of his work was refinishing old Sho-Bud steels.
How are you feeling, Ricky? |
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Ricky Davis
From:
Bertram, Texas USA
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Posted 4 Jan 2021 1:11 pm
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OMG Andrew; thank you so much for answering that dilemma in my memory. Everyone I would ask for an answer is now dead. 70-83 I was just starting out; but I had a Marlen and became close to Leonard Stadler of course. My neighbor was Tom Brumley; so then I went to BMI when he took it over. Then he moved away and I got Emmons; then finally got the Sho~bud; as it was my favorite steel to hear and hear Lloyd Green play. Then to speed up to these years in the 2010....on...I was commissioned by the new owner of the famous Lightening Bolt Sho~bud Fingertip that Lloyd Green played on all those hits in the late 60's...I learned that it was AJ that finished that steel in the first place.1966...then later years when someone sold it to Bobby Seymour the body and finish was all screwed up and Seymour kinda fixed it up and put crap on there and said here ya go a fingertip I'll sell. AJ walked in one day and looked it over and said: "Oh my gosh; this is the lightening bolt I did the body and finish on in '66 to go to Lloyd. So Seymour said:"well you want it"?? so yes AJ took it and Refinished it to it's original finish; then Lloyd came in and played it and said it played horrible and none of the metal parts looks original to it...so he had NO FEELING FOR IT....so Seymour put it up for sale. A rich Farmer from Texas flew his jet up there and bought it and brought it back to Texas and put it up in a room locked behind glass for all to see. as Lloyd Green was his all time fav. and the reason he ever took up playing steel guitar. He called Lloyd one day and told him he has it; Lloyd said that is great glad you got it...and then he asked Lloyd if he would ever play it again and Lloyd said NO; he then asked what would it take for him to play it agin...LLoyd said: "Well there is only 3 to 5 people in the whole world that know what this guitar should look like; play like; feel like and sound like and they are all dead except Ricky Davis. So then I got the call from him and farmer and we had a dream we wanted to come true. "AJ refinished it. James Morehead built parts I wanted; as I knew the crap Seymour though on it and what is suppose to be there; and I built is and it is and has been in the Country Music Hall of Fame Museum in Nashville since the display> Here's Lloyd playing it on the Lawrence Welk show 1966-ish) and here it is 55 years later still behind glass.
Lawrence Welk Show here>
https://youtu.be/nJQdR0ciwYg
James Morehead who Machined all the parts I wanted.
(RIP James; you were the best student and friend I ever had. Love and Miss you and Coop.)
Lloyd Green and Pete Finney looking at it>
At my House done before nashville trip.
The new owner flying back to Nashville for Lloyd; AJ and Harry Jackson to see>
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Email Ricky: sshawaiian2362@gmail.com |
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Jim Arnold
From:
Texas USA
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Posted 5 Jan 2021 2:46 pm Sho-Bud
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| Ricky,you're the best. Love your stories of the history of Sho-Bud.Take care brother. |
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Dave Meis
From:
Olympic Peninsula, Washington, USA
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Posted 6 Jan 2021 11:06 am
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| Was 3 narrow, close pedals and 6 wide pedals original from the factory? |
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Ricky Davis
From:
Bertram, Texas USA
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Posted 6 Jan 2021 3:41 pm
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No that was not factory to cut down waffle pedals. But it was factory that 9 to 10 pedals were put on these old Permanents and Fingertips; so the room to do that was to have the first 3 pedal cross bars very close together....therefore them being that close made the wide waffle pedals with hardly any room between them; so they cut off the sides to make the pedal more narrow.
There ya go....OLD School.
Ricky
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Dave Meis
From:
Olympic Peninsula, Washington, USA
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Posted 6 Jan 2021 4:13 pm
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| Thanks man! 👠|
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 7 Jan 2021 8:20 am
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If I remember right, on my Sho~Bud Fingertip, the E9th pedals were closer together than those for the C6th neck. 
Erv |
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Rick Dillon
From:
West Virginia, USA
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Posted 7 Jan 2021 3:00 pm Ldg
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| If this sale falls thru, I would like stab at call me 304-972-0018 Rick, Thanks. |
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