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Topic: Sho Bud FretBoard |
Evan Elkin
From:
Portland Oregon
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Posted 18 Apr 2005 4:41 pm |
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| My newly purchased early 70's Sho Bud Pro I just arrived - it's really an amazing instrument and I love it already. I have a question for you guys: I had never seen one of these except in photos before this arrived and I wonder if all Sho Buds have the plastic fretboards? It just doesn't seem to match the otherwise beautiful workmanship of the rest of the instrument - and I wonder if there is a nicer looking sho-bud fretboard from the same era I could switch onto my bud. Any info would be greatly appreciated |
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Rick Garrett
From:
Tyler, Texas
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Posted 18 Apr 2005 4:53 pm
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My mid 70's pro 1 has the plastic kinda 3d fret board and I really like it. I don't know if there was something earlier that was better but I had a early 80's pro 1 that didn't have red and white. only white and I didn't like it as much.
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Evan Elkin
From:
Portland Oregon
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Posted 18 Apr 2005 5:03 pm
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| thanks for the reply rick - If somethin non-plastic and non 3-d doesn't exist made by sho bud, I'm hoping somebody makes a wooden board with the playing card symbols silk screened on |
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Eric West
From:
Portland, Oregon, USA, R.I.P.
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mike nolan
From:
Forest Hills, NY USA
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Posted 18 Apr 2005 7:21 pm
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Evan,
There are a couple of places to buy metal Sho~Bud fretboards...Bobbe Seymour has 'em...in two color schemes. I don't like the look of the plastic ones particurlarly, but they are accurate. |
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Darrell Schmidt
From:
Charles City, Iowa, USA
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Posted 19 Apr 2005 4:30 am
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Evan:
On my LDG (72?) the frett board looks like a rasied cast iron or something.I sort of like the look myself.I have never really checked it out though.
Darrell-Iowa |
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Bobbe Seymour
From:
Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 19 Apr 2005 4:27 pm
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Origially, the Sho-Bud plastic fretboard was designed for the student "maverick" steel guitar. It is hard to clean and refered to as the "Dust Catcher" fretboard by the employees of the company in the '70s.
Some of the Nashville players thought they looked good and wanted them on the pro guitars. When the Sho-Bud company ran low on the metal/smooth boards, they decided to use the "Maverick" boards on the production line. This continued until complaints about not being able to clean them easily started coming in, by this time the new metal fretboards were being installed once again. Some folks even today, prefer the plastic. At least they don't rust!
Some folks still refer to them as the student model fretboards, but they were used on all guitars later.
Bobbe |
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smike
From:
oakland, ca
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Posted 11 May 2005 1:58 pm
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tom bradshaw has recently made replica silk-screened fretboards for 10 and 12 string shobuds.
they look identical, but better... the graphics are crisper.
the 12 string board looks a little wider at the nut end, so the strings don't 'disappear' as much at the lower frets.
you can contact him at: tbradshaw@california.com. |
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Jerry Hayes
From:
Virginia Beach, Va.
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Posted 12 May 2005 9:10 am
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On my old ShoBud I replaced the metal board with one of these for a while before I sold the guitar. I was playing at a place where the lights in front of the bandstand shined right on my guitar and reflected in such a way as I couldn't hardly see the fret markers on the shiny metal board. The plastic one really helped combat that...JH in Va.
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Livin' in the Past and Future with a 12 string Mooney Universal tuning.
[This message was edited by Jerry Hayes on 12 May 2005 at 10:11 AM.] |
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