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Topic: When Will ShoBud Be Back In Business |
Matt Martin
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Palm Harbor, Florida, USA
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Posted 1 Nov 2002 4:55 am |
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| Why doesn't ShoBud start building guitars again?? Who has name rights? I always thought they built a great guitar. |
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Jim Smith
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Midlothian, TX, USA
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Posted 1 Nov 2002 5:36 am
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I heard that some big company bought Sho-Bud to keep them out of business. The same company later bought MCI/EMCI and did the same thing.  |
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Tony Prior
From:
Charlotte NC
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Posted 1 Nov 2002 6:08 am
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| Maybe it was MARRS music ! |
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Rex Thomas
From:
Thompson's Station, TN
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Posted 1 Nov 2002 8:03 am
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Tony, you jokester. 
Well now that Fender owns Gretsch (is the ink dry?) ("$1500 FOR A BOLT OYWN!!?? AHM UH GITTIN' ME A GRRRRRETSCH!!!" Sorry folks; I went ballistic there for a second; it was someone I heard awhile back. Never mind.) who owns the rights to Sho-Bud, then I guess the question would be what is Fender going to do with Sho-Bud's factory down there in Magazine, AR, yes? Ok fellers, jump in... |
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Joerg Hennig
From:
Bavaria, Germany
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Posted 1 Nov 2002 9:11 am
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| Looking at the Fender "Custom Shop" guitars... how about a "Relic" Professional complete w/ bar dings and everything? Think about a "NOS" ´62 Permanent or a "Closet Classic" ´66 Fingertip! This offers a whole new world of possibilities! The prices would probably be equal to the new MSA... |
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 1 Nov 2002 10:46 am
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For whatever it's worth, I met Fred Gretsch last January at the NAMM show, and asked him about this, and he told me there were no plans to resurrect Sho-Bud. Subsequently I've read that there ARE new Sho-buds being made.
I have no idea what's going on. |
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Brian Davis
From:
San Francisco, USA
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Posted 1 Nov 2002 11:26 am
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| It seems to me a giant like Fender probably isn't interested in investing the cost of manufacturing in a product whose expected sales figures are likely quite low compared the pieces of crap six-strings they sell these days out of their cheap Mexican labor pool. They can't even make a decent banjo, for God's sake. If Gretsch found good reason to let the Sho-Bud brand wither away, I can't see Fender nursing the name back to good health. If anything, they'd probably make some embarrassingly shoddy copy of the original. So sad... |
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