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Topic: Sho Bud Super Pro scale length? |
Andy Schick
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Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 12 Jan 2008 3:43 pm |
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I have a Sho Bud Super Pro with Alu necks.
The scale length is 24.25. Is this common and where can I purchase replacement boards?
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Andy |
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Bob Tuttle
From:
Republic, MO 65738
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Posted 12 Jan 2008 9:52 pm
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| You might want to recheck your measurement. To the best of my knowledge, all Super Pros had a 24 inch scale. |
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Darvin Willhoite
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Roxton, Tx. USA
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Posted 13 Jan 2008 1:31 pm
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Mine has a 24" scale.
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Darvin Willhoite
MSA Millennium, Legend, and Studio Pro, Reese's restored Universal Direction guitar, a restored MSA Classic SS, several amps, new and old, and a Kemper Powerhead that I am really liking. Also a Zum D10, a Mullen RP, and a restored Rose S10, named the "Blue Bird". Also, I have acquired and restored the plexiglass D10 MSA Classic that was built as a demo in the early '70s. I also have a '74 lacquer P/P, with wood necks, and a showroom condition Sho-Bud Super Pro. |
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Darvin Willhoite
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Roxton, Tx. USA
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Posted 13 Jan 2008 1:31 pm
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Duplicate post.
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Darvin Willhoite
MSA Millennium, Legend, and Studio Pro, Reese's restored Universal Direction guitar, a restored MSA Classic SS, several amps, new and old, and a Kemper Powerhead that I am really liking. Also a Zum D10, a Mullen RP, and a restored Rose S10, named the "Blue Bird". Also, I have acquired and restored the plexiglass D10 MSA Classic that was built as a demo in the early '70s. I also have a '74 lacquer P/P, with wood necks, and a showroom condition Sho-Bud Super Pro. |
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Bent Romnes
From:
London,Ontario, Canada
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Posted 13 Jan 2008 1:59 pm
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| Andy, you scared me there for a minute..I modeled my home built after the Superpro and drew my fretboard to a 24" scale length... |
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Skip Edwards
From:
LA,CA
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Posted 13 Jan 2008 2:33 pm
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| I think I remember Bobbe saying something awhile back about there being a couple SuperPro custom jobs that had a longer scale. Sho-bud was always doing custom stuff...and Lloyd Green's famous LDG has a longer scale. |
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Andy Schick
From:
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 13 Jan 2008 6:36 pm
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I have been detailing my new gently used Sho-Bud Super Pro, and I needed to replace one of my fretboards. I tried new Bradshaw fretboards and at that time I realized that they were the wrong scale length. I quadruple checked it, my guitar is a 24.25" scale length. I am now in the position of looking for new or gently used fretboards (black and white only) that would work on my guitar.
Any information on these custom Super-Pros would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Andy |
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Clyde Lane
From:
Glasgow, Kentucky, USA
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Posted 13 Jan 2008 7:11 pm
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I know of one 24.25inch scale Super Pro. Do a search under George Edwards and you will find the topic.
You can get the fret boards from Jeff Surratt at Sho-Pro. A few months back I got two 24.25 inch Sho-Bud fret boards from him for my Williams D-10.
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richard burton
From:
Britain
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Posted 13 Jan 2008 10:12 pm
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Or make your own.
Here's how to calculate the fret positions:
Divide scale length by 1.0594623,
(or multiply by 94.3875%)
to get 1st fret position, then divide the remaining length by 1.0594623 and so on. |
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Bo Legg
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Posted 14 Jan 2008 1:32 am
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Andy Schick...
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| I quadruple checked it, my guitar is a 24.25" scale length. |
OK Andy your Sho-Bud's bigger than ours. But you haven't heard from people who have measured their Johnsons and willies. |
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Bent Romnes
From:
London,Ontario, Canada
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Posted 14 Jan 2008 8:36 am
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| richard burton wrote: |
Or make your own.
Here's how to calculate the fret positions:
Divide scale length by 1.0594623,
(or multiply by 94.3875%)
to get 1st fret position, then divide the remaining length by 1.0594623 and so on. |
Thanks Richard! This is the first time I have seen it in writing. I wrote it down...just in case 
How did you arrive at that formula, or did you learn it from somebody who knows? |
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richard burton
From:
Britain
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Posted 14 Jan 2008 11:14 am
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Bent,
I'm ashamed to say that I worked it out by trial and error, with a pocket calculator 
I learned (from the forum) that the magic number was the twelfth root of two, but had no clue how to calculate it.
So I got my calculator, and took a stab at a number, something like 1.1, and multiplied it by itself twelve times, to see how near to the number two I was.
Eventually , by trial and error, after an hour or so I arrived at the number.
The hour wasn't completely wasted, however, as I managed to drink 4 or 5 lagers during the 'Numberathon'  |
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Darvin Willhoite
From:
Roxton, Tx. USA
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Posted 14 Jan 2008 4:16 pm
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I have a computer program that I downloaded somewhere that calculates all that for you. All you have to do is input the scale length. You could probably find it with a Google search.
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Darvin Willhoite
MSA Millennium, Legend, and Studio Pro, Reese's restored Universal Direction guitar, a restored MSA Classic SS, several amps, new and old, and a Kemper Powerhead that I am really liking. Also a Zum D10, a Mullen RP, and a restored Rose S10, named the "Blue Bird". Also, I have acquired and restored the plexiglass D10 MSA Classic that was built as a demo in the early '70s. I also have a '74 lacquer P/P, with wood necks, and a showroom condition Sho-Bud Super Pro. |
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Bent Romnes
From:
London,Ontario, Canada
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Carl Heatley
From:
Morehead City,NC
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Posted 14 Jan 2008 6:14 pm
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| Andy Schick wrote: |
I have been detailing my new gently used Sho-Bud Super Pro, and I needed to replace one of my fretboards. I tried new Bradshaw fretboards and at that time I realized that they were the wrong scale length. I quadruple checked it, my guitar is a 24.25" scale length. I am now in the position of looking for new or gently used fretboards (black and white only) that would work on my guitar.
Any information on these custom Super-Pros would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Andy |
Hey Andy,
Does this mean you have a 24" scale length fretboard
you dont need????
If so...I may be interested in buying it from you.
Let me know...Carl. |
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