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Topic: Sho Bud Bar |
David Kellogg
From:
Tualatin, OR
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Posted 4 Oct 2010 1:33 pm |
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| Found an old pedal steel bar with Sho Bud stamped on the bottom. I have never seen one before. Did they produce many of them? |
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Bobby Boggs
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Upstate SC.
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Posted 4 Oct 2010 10:07 pm
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I can't say. But it appears they made at least 2.  My guess is they made lots of them. Why not. Shot made everything else.
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Marco Schouten
From:
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Posted 6 Oct 2010 6:28 am
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At least 3 
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Bent Romnes
From:
London,Ontario, Canada
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 6 Oct 2010 8:50 am
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Make it 5.
One of those bars came with my Maverick when I purchased it back in the early 1970's. |
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Jack Harper
From:
Mississippi, USA
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Posted 6 Oct 2010 5:25 pm
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and i was gonna say....my buddy bought a new maverick in early '74 and a sho-bud bar was in the case.
he was proud of that bar!
i bet he still has it. maverick is long gone.
country............ |
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Jim Lindsey (Louisiana)
From:
Greenwell Springs, Louisiana (deceased)
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Posted 7 Oct 2010 8:31 am
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Guess I'll add two more Sho-Bud bars into the picture here and both of the Sho-Bud bars I owned sort of ended up with a story behind them ... back in 1976 when I purchased my first steel (a little MSA Red Baron), the guy I bought it from gave me four steel guitar bars with it.
One was a dreadful heavy home made thing that I immediately discarded, the second was a thin 3/8" diameter bar that was too small for me to hold, so I discarded that one as well ... but the other two bars were good: one was a bar with "Sho-Bud" stamped on the end and the other bar had "Emmons" stamped into the end. Both bars were 7/8" diameter, the Emmons bar being just a hair longer than the Sho-Bud bar.
I often preferred using the Emmons bar because the rear end of the bar had a beveled edge that didn't hang on the strings (my Sho-Bud bar didn't have that and, when pulling the bar backward, it would sometimes get caught and hang up on the 9th or 10th string). I had a really nasty experience with that Sho-Bud bar one night when pulling it backward across the strings ... it caught on the 9th string and, like an arrow fitted to a bow string, it propelled forward out of my grip and hit the floor, then rolled off the band stand onto the dance floor. One by one, people dancing slipped on it and fell while it continued to roll around searching for its next victim until some twenty people found their backsides smacking the floor and the bar finally ended up off the dance floor under someone's table.
Both my Emmons and Sho-Bud bars disappeared one night at a gig. We went on break and when we came back for the next set, they were gone ... someone had lifted them and I never saw them again. The guitar player handed me a glass Alka-Seltzer bottle (which he'd often use as a slide for his guitar) and I played the remainder of the night using it as a bar. The next day a machinist friend of mine made me a 1" diameter bar as a replacement for the stolen bars.
Ironically, the same thing happened again with another Sho-Bud bar. At a visit to Scotty's convention in 1978, I bought a new Sho-Bud bar (to have as a spare bar). A few months later at a gig, we went on break and returned for the next set and I found that the home made 1" bar was still on my guitar, but my new Sho-Bud bar had been lifted by someone!  Lightning had struck me twice ... after that, I developed a habit of not leaving my bars out in the open.
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Two Peavey Nashville 400 Amps (with a Session 500 in reserve) - Yamaha SPX-90 II
Peavey ProFex II - Yamaha R-1000 Digital Reverb - Ross Time Machine Digital Delay - BBE Sonic Maximizer 422A
ProCo RAT R2DU Dual Distortion - Korg DT-1 Pro Tuner (Rack Mounted) - Furman PL-8 Power Bay
Goodrich Match-Bro by Buddy Emmons - BJS Steel Bar (Dunlop Finger Picks / Golden Gate Thumb Picks) |
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Rick Schacter
From:
Portland, Or.
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Posted 7 Oct 2010 4:25 pm
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I had a really nasty experience with that Sho-Bud bar one night when pulling it backward across the strings ... it caught on the 9th string and, like an arrow fitted to a bow string, it propelled forward out of my grip and hit the floor, then rolled off the band stand onto the dance floor. One by one, people dancing slipped on it and fell while it continued to roll around searching for its next victim until some twenty people found their backsides smacking the floor and the bar finally ended up off the dance floor under someone's table.
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Thank you for the funny mind picture!  |
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Dennis Wallis
From:
Arkansas
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Posted 7 Oct 2010 7:48 pm
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| Welllllll ....I have one too (a 4 in bar) BUT I didn't get it from Jim . ** |
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Jim Lindsey (Louisiana)
From:
Greenwell Springs, Louisiana (deceased)
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Posted 7 Oct 2010 9:21 pm
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| Rick Schacter wrote: |
| Thank you for the funny mind picture! |
Looking back on it, it is pretty funny remembering all those people falling down like that, but I'm also really happy that no one got hurt ... just their pride.
| Dennis Wallis wrote: |
| Welllllll ....I have one too (a 4 in bar) BUT I didn't get it from Jim . ** |
Good one, Dennis.
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1986 Mullen D-10 with 8 & 7 (Dual Bill Lawrence 705 pickups each neck)
Two Peavey Nashville 400 Amps (with a Session 500 in reserve) - Yamaha SPX-90 II
Peavey ProFex II - Yamaha R-1000 Digital Reverb - Ross Time Machine Digital Delay - BBE Sonic Maximizer 422A
ProCo RAT R2DU Dual Distortion - Korg DT-1 Pro Tuner (Rack Mounted) - Furman PL-8 Power Bay
Goodrich Match-Bro by Buddy Emmons - BJS Steel Bar (Dunlop Finger Picks / Golden Gate Thumb Picks) |
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Bill Moran
From:
Virginia, USA
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Posted 8 Oct 2010 9:35 am
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John Coop has a 12 string ShoBud bar. It is longer than normal anyway.
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Ricky Davis
From:
Bertram, Texas USA
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Posted 8 Oct 2010 2:06 pm
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I had one and it was the bar that I recorded on all the Dale Watson CD's during my time with the man; so I gave it to Dale when I left the Band.
Ricky
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