Doc, from what you say here it sounds to me that you have a single neck "Fingertip." I have a D-10 Serial # 7 213 213, which is alledgedly a 1967 model, the "7" meaning 1967. I would guess, and it's only a guess, that your's was made sometime in the era just before mine was due to the closeness of the numbers---but I have no idea how the "serialing" of numbers went in those days. I wish I could talk to David Jackson and some of the family who were in Sho~Bud at the time and talk to them about the "fingertip" and the serialing. As to "vintage?" Well, I guess you could call it "vintage" since there have been so many improvements in the pedal steel since that time. The "fingertip" was Sho~Bud's first attempt at an "all pull" changer. It has great sound but without some newer, modern parts to "update" it, it is still a tempermental, mechanical monster, which is why they ceased production. I also understand that they started production on the fingertip before the "permanent" completely ceased production, which it is my understanding was the "original" of the Sho~Bud guitars after the prototypes were tested. For more history, Duane Becker has done a good job of researching, as best he could, the various models of the Sho~Bud on the "Sho~Bud Unoffical Web Site" put together by Greg Simmons at www.planet.eon.net~gsimmons/shobud/index.html Best regards.[This message was edited by Larry Harlan on 17 August 2003 at 04:40 PM.]
