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Topic: Sho-Bud restoration phase 1 |
mike nolan
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Forest Hills, NY USA
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Posted 30 Jun 2007 2:09 pm |
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Here is another 'Bud getting the Coop treatment. This was a 3X3 in January. It has Coop super fingers and 2 Coop levers... LKV and LKR. I replaced the dustcatcher with a Coop white fretboard. The 4th pedal came from Forum buddy Phil Sterk... plus a couple of parts from Duane Marrs (cross shaft, pullers, etc... ) New TrueTone @ 17K. Really light aluminum legs from Sam Gibson. I did a bit of retouching on the lacquer and buffed it up a bit. I didn't want to do an entire refinish.... I like a bit of lacquer checking.
Like others before me, I can't believe how great this axe plays and tunes with the Coop parts... I intend to replace all of the parts with Coop stuff.... it just wasn't in the budget right now.
It was a bit tight getting 4X5 under there, but I had lots of great help from everyone involved... thanks!
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James Morehead
From:
Prague, Oklahoma, USA - R.I.P.
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Posted 30 Jun 2007 4:33 pm
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| Sweeeet!! How do you like the tone now that you have the superfingers? Mine actually got better--kinda like your almost in the guitar. |
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Chris LeDrew
From:
Canada
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Posted 30 Jun 2007 5:13 pm
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Ah, that's nice. I like the way you artfully squeezed everything in there, especially the knee changes in between the pedal changes. Very cool.
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mike nolan
From:
Forest Hills, NY USA
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Posted 30 Jun 2007 5:27 pm
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Thanks, Chris... there is no template for this, so it took a bit of trial and error ( and close consultation with Coop) to come up with something that works. I don't think that there were any factory 4X5 S-10 Buds. I want to mess around with some more half stops and splits to get it really tweeked up.
James.... I might not have done this, except for the fact that this guitar had the pot metal fingers... which would eventually wear out. I am really glad that I did. The tone is so much better now... right up there with my '73 LDG's. I am amazed at the way that this changer pulls and returns to pitch. It is nice to have a source for really accurate fretboards too.
So now I have a modern mid 70's Sho~Bud. |
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mike nolan
From:
Forest Hills, NY USA
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Posted 2 Jul 2007 10:04 am
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I had a couple of emails asking for a picture of the changer endplate.... so here it is.
This was a double raise-single lower changer originally, John had to mill the opening out slightly to accommodate the double/double of the Super Finger changer....
From recent posts, it looks like a lot of us are Coopizing our 'Buds.
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