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Topic: Interesting Sho Bud |
Carmen Acciaioli
From:
Texas, USA
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John Swain
From:
Winchester, Va
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Posted 19 Feb 2024 8:11 am |
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| Looks like a C6 guitar currently setup as an E9 3 pedals and 1 knee lever. Easy to reconfigure with parts. |
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Nelson Checkoway
From:
Massachusetts, USA
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Posted 19 Feb 2024 9:49 am
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I've seen this listing for a few weeks now and it's seems like a weird copedent. A look at the changer end and at the barrels on the underside show there are no pedal changes at all on the bottom 4 strings: only raises on strings 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6 and lowers on strings 4 and 5.
Some funny stuff around the top at the bridge/changer: pickup has no exposed polepieces unlike a typical Sho-Bud pickup, and it looks like a narrow black palm rest has been adhered to the bass side of the bridge.
I guess 6140s in any configuration are pretty rare and maybe most unusual is the green finish. This was a Sept 1973 build around the period of the first LDGs. |
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Kenny Davis
From:
Great State of Oklahoma
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Posted 19 Feb 2024 11:59 am
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6140's were C6th guitars. Originally a blue guitar unless someone talked them into doing a green one. Dust catcher added with non-original screws.
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Bruce Derr
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Lee, New Hampshire, USA
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Posted 19 Feb 2024 7:14 pm
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| Not all 6140's were C6. My first steel was a brand new blonde 6140 with 6 and 2. It came set up for E9. I don't remember what the other three pedals did. I bought it new from Manny's in NYC in January 1974. Stock item, not a custom order. Rack and barrel, sn 4551. I sold it after a couple of years. |
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Chance Wilson
From:
California, USA
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Posted 19 Feb 2024 7:51 pm
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| 6P/1K was common from mid 60s up until around this example. Most got converted to 3P/4K:the shafts/cranks/rods and such were already there for E9 conversion. |
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Andy DePaule
From:
Saigon, Viet Nam & Springfield, Oregon
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Posted 20 Feb 2024 5:41 am A Sho~Bud Like my first PSG.
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This is a Sho~Bud Like my first PSG that I bought used in 1975.
Mine was the usual blond and didn't have the dust catcher fretboard.
It had 6&1 with E9th basic plus some other changes.
When I met Bob Lee two years later he had the same model but he could play his well and I was still getting started.
I think I paid $400 back then.
Been told they came from Sho~Bud with C6th or A6th back then for western swing.
Someone had tuned it to E9th before I got it and that's what it had just like what Bruce said about his. Got it from a classified ad and replaced it three years later with my Sho~Bud Crossover that had 7&1.
In the case were two books, One from Winnie Winston with a very thin plastic recording to go with some of the tab.
The other book was from Jeff Newman and also had one of those thin records.
I remember his language made me laugh. "Pick string 8 and then 7 and then 6 with the B pedal down and then pick string 5 and mash down on the A pedal"...
May not be the exact quote, but close. 
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2017 Mullen SD-10, G2 5&5 Polished Aluminum covering. Custom Build for me. Great Steel.
Clinesmith Joaquin Murphy style Aluminum 8 String Lap Steel Short A6th.
Magnatone Jeweltone Series Lap Steel, Circa 1950? 6 String with F#minor7th Tuning.
1956 Dewey Kendrick D-8 4&3, Restoration Project.
1973 Sho~Bud Green SD-10 4&5 PSG, Restoration Project. |
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