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Topic: Sho Bud D10 |
Brad Rigby
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Missouri
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Posted 1 Mar 2010 9:50 am |
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I purchased a Sho-Bud D10 PRO III this weekend that seems to be a pretty sweet old guitar.
My question is, which models of these Sho-Buds were built with aluminum necks and which were built w/ wooden necks.
This is an aluminum neck guitar and sounds fantastic.
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Brad |
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Skip Edwards
From:
LA,CA
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Posted 1 Mar 2010 10:01 am
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Pro III's came with metal necks, while Pro II's had wood necks. Otherwise they're basically the same gtr.
Super Pro's were available with either metal or wood necks.
And, continuing Sho-Bud's policy of anything and everything, I've seen LDG's, Pro I's and Professional's with metal necks, but these were custom orders. |
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Jay Jessup
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Charlottesville, VA, USA
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Posted 1 Mar 2010 6:10 pm
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| Skip Edwards wrote: |
Pro III's came with metal necks, while Pro II's had wood necks. Otherwise they're basically the same gtr.
Super Pro's were available with either metal or wood necks.
And, continuing Sho-Bud's policy of anything and everything, I've seen LDG's, Pro I's and Professional's with metal necks, but these were custom orders. |
Yep and I have a LDG (faded) green Pro-III with 24 3/8" scale length and custom non dust catcher fretboards and since I bought it from the the original owner I know it was made this way! |
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Jeff Hyman
From:
West Virginia, USA
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Posted 2 Mar 2010 12:23 am
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Jay,
Have you ever had an opportunity to play a SHO~BUD with a wooden neck? |
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Jay Jessup
From:
Charlottesville, VA, USA
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Posted 2 Mar 2010 5:00 am
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Yep, see that picture in my avatar  |
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James Morehead
From:
Prague, Oklahoma, USA - R.I.P.
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Posted 2 Mar 2010 7:48 am
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The Pro III is a square body guitar . The Pro II is a roundfront guitar with the same changer as the Professional, which it morphed from.. The Pro III went to a different changer "upgrade" from the Pro II. Of course the aluminum neck on the Pro III vs. the wood of the Pro II is obvious. The Pro II is a much different guitar than the Pro III.
NOW, the fly in the ointment, and to add confusion, Shobud came out with a transition from Pro II to Super Pro and it was called the Pro II CUSTOM. Most of these guitars were square fronts, and in the early days, used the all-pull with two-hole pullers with the locking roller, and this guitar morphed into more and more pot metal as it came into later years of production. Awe, the Shobud saga----------------------------------------------  |
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Jay Jessup
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Charlottesville, VA, USA
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Posted 2 Mar 2010 8:02 am
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| Yep and just to add the confusion a little bit, my original Pro-III was a roundfront! It was the very first aluminum neck Sho-Bud to land in Richmond Va and while I can't be sure of the date, my guess is the fall of 74? I assume they were using up already manufactured Professional bodies because it wasn't long before they were all square fronts, mine was black. |
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Dave O'Brien
From:
Florida and New Jersey
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Posted 2 Mar 2010 8:31 am Pro III
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You are correct Jay - I also had a black round front Pro III one of the first I guess that I played out as a Sho-Bud dealer back about that time - sold it to Stan the steel player in Kinderhook Creek. Went back to a The Professional. Liked the Pro III better but those necks sure got cold in the winter time.
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Skip Edwards
From:
LA,CA
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Posted 2 Mar 2010 9:31 am
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Yeah, James...you're right on. The ProII had it's differences from the ProII Custom, which was closer to the ProIII Custom.
I've only seen one round-front ProIII...those are rare birds. And yeah, Sho-Bud would just use up the round-front bodies they had for the first batch of ProIII's. Seems like they did that with alot of parts, as well. |
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Richard Park
From:
Alexandria, Virginia
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Posted 2 Mar 2010 1:39 pm
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| What exactly defines a square front and a round front? |
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James Morehead
From:
Prague, Oklahoma, USA - R.I.P.
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Posted 2 Mar 2010 2:12 pm
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| Richard Park wrote: |
| What exactly defines a square front and a round front? |
Where the front apron connects to the top deck---it's either rounded over or a sharp angled corner like the modern guitars. |
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