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Topic: Bobbe Seymour Prototype #2 D10 8x5 Sold on Craigslist |
Keith Bolog
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Posted 17 Oct 2019 7:23 am |
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Thanks anyway -
Basically a ShoBud Pro-xxx, this is a solid lacquered maple body with sho bud mechanicals and all wooden cut tail necks, all the way to the tuners. XR 16 pickups. You can probably learn more on the web I did not find a lot of info on Bobbe Seymour’s effort, rumour is he bought out the Sho-Bud parts when they shut down. Feel free to chime in with what you know. Nice Thomas-style gray case.
I have done many hours of extensive work to recover this steel back to Emmons setup from its converted state, which was a very personal and incomplete setup for Sacred Steel. It was not ‘restored’, it was cleaned up, setup, and adjusted.
E9 neck sounds fantastic, has sustain for days and up high on the frets it rivals or exceeds any Emmons PP. I made a video with some tone examples, you be the judge (of the tone not the performance please). https://youtu.be/b304ZJs6h_Y
Here are the cons: A poor epoxy re-setting of the C6 neck nut, cleaned up; mismatched nylon tuning nuts, a few shade-tree pull rods; the apparently inferior ‘pot-metal’ sho bud parts; as a prototype there are a lot of empty holes underneath, the workmanship could be a lot better, there is typical cabinet drop, the usual scratches and dings here and there.
The pros: One of the sweetest E9 necks Ive ever tried, sounds to me like a Fulawka. Beautiful cabinet. Bobbe’s signature clearly makes it sound and play better.
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Last edited by Keith Bolog on 29 Dec 2019 4:09 pm; edited 6 times in total |
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Paul Wade
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mundelein,ill
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Posted 17 Oct 2019 7:42 am Bobbe Seymour Prototype #2 D10 8x4 2200 shipped USA
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HA i thought you where going to let me try that out  
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Keith Bolog
From:
Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 17 Oct 2019 8:11 am c mon
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Its here - get on up Paul
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Jon Zimmerman
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California, USA
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Posted 17 Oct 2019 3:55 pm 3 up/ 3 down changers
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| Keith n Paul: Could those be John Coop versions of the venerable Sho Bud slotted changers? That would be a ‘plus’. |
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Ian Worley
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Sacramento, CA
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Posted 17 Oct 2019 6:16 pm
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A cool bit of minor PSG history. Those cast bell cranks and pedal/lever cranks are not Sho-Bud pot metal, I think they are aluminum, sand-cast , probably custom made by Bobbbe. I once purchased an S12 Sho-Bud that had the same style parts, it also had Bobbe's signature and "11-99" on the inside of the left endplate. Those parts were a mystery, perhaps that mystery is solved. That guitar also had gold tuners, maybe that was a Bobbe thing.
The changer tailpiece looks like one from a Pro-III, but the fingers are not Sho-Bud. They are 3 raise/3 lower, and with string pins instead of the slots. They appear to be aluminum too, not chrome-plated pot metal. Seems like a nice git. |
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Keith Bolog
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Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 17 Oct 2019 7:12 pm
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Confirming: Pins, not slots, on the changers. And the bellcranks def look to be a casting (aka pot metal?).
If all I played was E9 country I would drag this thing around to gigs. Its sweet.
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Ian Worley
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Sacramento, CA
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Posted 17 Oct 2019 7:35 pm
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"pot metal" refers to cast zinc, which is porous and soft. Sho-Bud pot metal parts are all chrome plated for that reason. Cast aluminum is stronger, keyheads, endplates, tailpieces, etc. are cast aluminum.
Here is a pic the other example I mentioned, I actually still have some of these parts, they are definitely stouter than the Sho-Bud equivalents:
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Keith Bolog
From:
Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 8 Nov 2019 7:06 am bump in a soft market
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hmmmm I thought this would get scooped up right away, even with its imperfections.
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