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Topic: Please Help Identify This Steel Bar |
Lee Baucum
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McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 27 Jun 2010 10:38 am |
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I just purchased a pre-owned pedal steel guitar and it came with a beautiful steel bar. It appears to be highly polished chrome, but I may be wrong. The length is 3 1/2" and the diameter is 15/16". The "butt" end of the bar has no marks and it is also highly polished. There are no rings or circles on the butt. It's got a really shiny butt (kinda like my old blue suit!), just like the surface of the rest of the bar.
Any idea who made it?
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Kevin Hatton
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Buffalo, N.Y.
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Posted 27 Jun 2010 11:38 am
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| Made by Shiney Butt Bars Co. from Shine Your Butt Texas. Anthropoligists have been studying the population there recently because everyone walks with a stoop. |
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Mike Perlowin
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Los Angeles CA
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 27 Jun 2010 1:41 pm
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Mike - The reason I didn't post a pic was because there really aren't any unique markings on the bar. It's just a shiny bar with a shiny butt!
I'll find the camera and post a photo. Perhaps it will help.
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Jim Lindsey (Louisiana)
From:
Greenwell Springs, Louisiana (deceased)
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Posted 27 Jun 2010 2:11 pm Re: Please Help Identify This Steel Bar
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| Lee Baucum wrote: |
| It appears to be highly polished chrome, but I may be wrong. The length is 3 1/2" and the diameter is 15/16". The "butt" end of the bar has no marks and it is also highly polished. There are no rings or circles on the butt. It's got a really shiny butt (kinda like my old blue suit!), just like the surface of the rest of the bar. Lee, from South Texas |
Lee, I may be far off the mark here in my guess, but I'm wondering if it could be an old Sho-Bud bar? Many years ago I had a bar that I bought at the ISGA (can't remember which booth) that sounds like it would look like the bar you're describing.
Mine came in a clear plastic tube with a paper insert that had the Sho-Bud logo printed on it and I paid $40 for it if memory serves me correct.
The bar I bought was about 3 1/2" long, 7/8" diameter and the butt of the bar had no markings, beveling or anything. A bullet shaped bar with a totally flat butt, and the whole thing highly polished and looked either like chrome or very nicely chrome plated. I'm just wondering if the bar you have might be a Sho-Bud bar like the one I had.
About a year later, I bought another bar just like it, but the second one actually had SHO-BUD stamped into the butt.
Sorry I can't show a photo of mine to see if it's a match to the one you have, but I no longer have those bars. My two Sho-Bud bars and my Emmons bar were all stolen off my accessories tray during a break at a gig one night and I've never seen them since.
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Scott Shipley
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Posted 27 Jun 2010 2:41 pm
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If it has an "S-B" stamped in the butt, it could be either a "Shiny Butt" bar, OR a "Sho-Bud" bar. Or a third possibility, it might just stand for "Shiny Bar."
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 27 Jun 2010 3:21 pm
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You guys are such commodians. 
There's nothing stamped on the butt end. No marks, no initials, nada. It's a fairly new bar. The guy I bought the guitar from said he purchased the bar recently, but couldn't remember where he ordered it from.
I found the camera and will take some pics. |
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Lee Baucum
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McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 27 Jun 2010 3:24 pm
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Scott Shipley
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The Ozark Mountains
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Posted 27 Jun 2010 3:28 pm
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Lee, nice bar! And an appropriate placement of that coaster in the first pic, lol.
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Jerry Overstreet
From:
Louisville Ky
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Posted 27 Jun 2010 4:28 pm
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| I have a couple that look just like that I bought from the Jackson guitar company in Nashville in the 80's. Mine are stainless steel. Nice heavy weight and as good a bar as I own. |
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Kevin Hatton
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Buffalo, N.Y.
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Posted 27 Jun 2010 4:44 pm
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Yup, told ya. There you go. They're in central Texas.
Last edited by Kevin Hatton on 28 Jun 2010 12:22 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Bill Ladd
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Wilmington, NC, USA
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Posted 27 Jun 2010 4:53 pm
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Looks a lot like the Cobra Coil bar I just got from Bobbe.
Hardened, polished stainless with no markings on the butt. |
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Clark Doughty
From:
KANSAS
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Posted 29 Jul 2010 4:24 pm Shiny Steel Bar
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| You have a PM on this item...........clark |
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Ward Skinner
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Mission, TX * R.I.P.
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Posted 29 Jul 2010 4:50 pm
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| Lee - Do you like that bar? Using it much? I never tried it, could've had it - I picked it up and thought it way too heavy. I think it came from Norman. |
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