| Author |
Topic: Who made this pedal steel advertised as a Fender? |
Nicholai Steindler
From:
New York, USA
|
|
|
 |
John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
|
Posted 3 Feb 2010 10:17 am |
|
| Fender built by ShoBud I believe. |
|
|
|
Michael Lee Allen
From:
Portage Park / Irving Park, Chicago, Illinois
|
Posted 3 Feb 2010 11:10 am
|
|
Deleted.
_________________
"Wisdom does not always come with age. Many times age arrives alone."
Last edited by Michael Lee Allen on 26 Feb 2011 10:07 am; edited 1 time in total |
|
|
|
Nicholai Steindler
From:
New York, USA
|
Posted 3 Feb 2010 11:12 am
|
|
Thanks guys!
Passed. I'm in love with the older ones. |
|
|
|
Bill Ladd
From:
Wilmington, NC, USA
|
Posted 3 Feb 2010 3:22 pm
|
|
| Michael Lee Allen wrote: |
| Fender "Student" 3&1 made by Sho-bud. That price is on the high side for what you are getting which is basically a Maverick. I'd pass. |
I've heard that said of this guitar on the forum a few times and I gotta respectfully disagree. I've had both guitars in my lifetime and the fender is a higher-level beginner guitar. Standard cross shafts, bellcranks and pull rods. A decent and stable pull/release changer. Adding levers is a snap -- cross shafts, brackets, levers and pullrods and you're done. Had a great sounding single-coil pickup on it, too. I did a lot of touring and recording with that guitar.
In fact, look for Whiskeytown's "Theme for a Trucker" on the Bill Pullman/Andie MacDowell film "End of Violence" if you want to hear me playing that very guitar.
Sold mine last year for $800, so I'd say that's a decent price for it. They seem to go for that or more when they (rarely) show up on ebay. |
|
|
|
b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
|
|
|
|
Bill Ladd
From:
Wilmington, NC, USA
|
Posted 3 Feb 2010 4:25 pm
|
|
| b0b wrote: |
Are those hex crossrods stock?  This looks almost like a Tom Bradshaw rebuild. Very nice! |
Yep. That's exactly what mine looked like. |
|
|
|
Tony Glassman
From:
The Great Northwest
|
Posted 3 Feb 2010 4:36 pm
|
|
The bellcranks look like they're made from pot-metal, like the older Pro-II Customs.
I hate those things. After breaking 3 of them and a knee lever, I finally rebuilt the entire guitar (D-10) using Coop parts. |
|
|
|
Bill Ladd
From:
Wilmington, NC, USA
|
Posted 3 Feb 2010 5:34 pm
|
|
| Oh yeah, definitely pot metal. Never had any problems with mine, though. |
|
|
|
Tom Bradshaw
From:
Walnut Creek, California, USA
|
Posted 3 Feb 2010 5:45 pm Bradshaw Re-build???
|
|
Not a rebuild of mine. I've never seen a Sho-Bud with the hex cross-shafts, but with a push/pull changer in it. Besides that, it would have maroon velvet on the cabinet bottom. Everyone knows that I wanted it to have a sexy look to those I restored!  |
|
|
|
Dave Hopping
From:
Aurora, Colorado
|
Posted 3 Feb 2010 6:49 pm
|
|
| Except for the knee lever being at RKR instead of RKL,that one looks identical to my first steel,Fender-branded,and bought new in late '77. |
|
|
|
