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Topic: Living with a Sho-Bud Fingertip... |
Tom Quinn
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Posted 27 Mar 2019 10:49 am |
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Anyone here play (or played) one on a some what regular basis? Just curious
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 27 Mar 2019 11:32 am
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Not more than I had to.
Had to retune between songs. 
Erv |
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James Collett
From:
San Dimas, CA
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Posted 27 Mar 2019 11:42 am
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I do. Pain in the butt to work on, but it stays in tune remarkably well once it's dialed in. At some point I'll probably replace the bell cranks with 2-hole pullers, but it sounds great and plays well enough if adjusted properly. Get some good split cases though! Those suckers are heavy.
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Abe Levy
From:
California, USA
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Posted 28 Mar 2019 1:48 pm
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I have one. Sounds incredible. Stays in tune pretty well. I just can't get used to the pedals being so close together on the front neck. I'm used to the wide set Emmons pedals and its a big adjustment. Lovely guitars, nice action, incredible sound.
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Mostly Pre-1970 guitars. |
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Bob Muller
From:
Oregon, USA
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Posted 29 Mar 2019 12:51 pm
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 29 Mar 2019 1:27 pm
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My 1st pedal steel was a Fingertip, that's what Shot sent me.
My wife and I were living in Littleton, Colorado and I was asked to play at a church opening.
I was tuning up at home and I broke one string after another, of course, it was the high G# string.
Finally I ran out of that gauge string and I searched all over Denver for a string and the only one I could find that would work was the thin 5th sting for a banjo, but it got me by.
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Tommy Auldridge
From:
Maryland, USA
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Posted 31 Mar 2019 3:01 pm Finger Tip Sho-Bud
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| Tom: I have a nice D-10 Finger tip that was built by Jeff Newman when he worked for Sho-Bud. I don't play it anymore but I still have it. Tommy..... |
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David Mitchell
From:
Tyler, Texas
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Posted 31 Mar 2019 7:18 pm
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| I had one. Sounded awesome but it woke up in a different world every time I mashed the pedals. Probably needed a good overhaul. Lloyd Green said he got good at retuning while he was playing. Must have been a juggling act. |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 1 Apr 2019 6:52 am
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Yes, if you like tuning a pedal steel, that's the model to buy. 
Erv |
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Tommy Auldridge
From:
Maryland, USA
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Posted 1 Apr 2019 7:02 am Blue loctite
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| I've found that if you have the springs adjusted right on the tuners they wont move around so easily. Also a drop blue loctite helps to make them gummy. Once I did that, I had no problems staying in tune. Tommy..... |
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