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Topic: Vintage Super-Pro II For Sale |
doug jernigan
From:
smyrna tn, usa
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Posted 8 Oct 2006 4:26 pm |
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For Sale--Vintage 1980 Super Pro 11 Sho-Bud . This Steel has been fully restored. Eight Floor Pedals and Eight Knees. Everything has been kept original including the Pickups. This Hybrid Guitar was one of nine built. Visit my website for photos and more details. www.digndoug.com
Doug Jernigan |
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Steven Black
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Gahanna, Ohio, USA
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Posted 9 Oct 2006 8:30 am
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| Hey Doug, are you sure you want to give it up? that is one great collector guitar you have, I have seen you play it here in Ohio several years ago, you sounded great on it. |
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doug jernigan
From:
smyrna tn, usa
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Posted 9 Oct 2006 10:38 am
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| Steve the guitar you saw was my smaller Super Pro Sho-Bud. I never had this steel out much, except for four or five recording sessions years ago. Doug |
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Jack Dougherty
From:
Spring Hill, Florida, USA
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Posted 9 Oct 2006 11:07 am
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Doug...
Does Leon Roberts know about this? I see and talk to him every so often. I would love to be able to take it off your hands. Sit it next to my Zum. I have a real soft spot for Buds as It was my first steel....
JD |
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doug jernigan
From:
smyrna tn, usa
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Posted 9 Oct 2006 3:18 pm
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The Super Pro II hybrid was one of nine guitars built back in the late 70's and early 80's. I used this guitar in a few recording sessions only, because it was a collector's guitar. I will have more information on my webpage in 2 or 3 days. The price is $15,000.00
Thank you for all the inquiries.
Doug |
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KENNY KRUPNICK
From:
Columbus, Ohio
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Posted 9 Oct 2006 4:21 pm
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Bobbe owns a blond Super Pro II.  |
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Roger Crawford
From:
Griffin, GA USA
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Posted 9 Oct 2006 6:29 pm
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| I would have owned a blond Super Pro II, but they never shipped my order! Maybe Bobbe got mine!!! |
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Jeff Bradshaw
From:
Leslieville, Alberta - Canada
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Posted 9 Oct 2006 7:09 pm
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| Hi Folks, This guitar is absolutely beautiful and very very rare...Best regards. ..jeff |
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Steven Black
From:
Gahanna, Ohio, USA
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Posted 10 Oct 2006 5:10 am
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| Hey Doug thanks for responding, my mistake on the sho-Bud, I was confused about this one and one you had a while ago, I am thinking of the one that is pictured on your E9th instruction course, do you still have a Sho-Bud you are keeping? |
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Larry Hamilton
From:
Amarillo,Tx
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Posted 10 Oct 2006 12:00 pm
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Not to sound uneducated but, what is Hybrid about this Sho-Bud. Can some one explain it. I know about the Zum Hybrid changer. Just like to know about the Bud
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Keep pickin', Larry |
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doug jernigan
From:
smyrna tn, usa
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Posted 10 Oct 2006 12:26 pm
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Roger ,Bobbe has a very nice Super Pro 11.
Larry to my knowledge there were only nine of these Super Pro steels built. The changer was a Pivot Type changer and the guitar was about 11/2 to 2 inches wider than a standard Super Pro. I beleive it was an experimental guitar. I used my Super Pro11 to teach here at the house for over 20 years. I very seldom took the guitar to use for a show or a session.After some wear, I decided to have it restored. Doug |
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Glenn Dawson
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StephensCity ,Virginia, USA
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Posted 10 Oct 2006 12:51 pm
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| I thought that there were a total of 21 Super Pro-II"s. The first seven being different from the others. The one Bobby has and the one Jimmy Day had were of the first seven. The endplates of the guitar had lines in them all the way around from front to the rear. Kind of like a heat-sink. The changers as well as everything under the guitar was nothing that Sho-Bud had previously used in the past. [This message was edited by Glenn Dawson on 10 October 2006 at 01:54 PM.] |
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doug jernigan
From:
smyrna tn, usa
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Posted 10 Oct 2006 4:49 pm
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Glen, I stand corrected on number of Super Pro 11's made. I believe it was around 7 or 8 guitars made with the sloted end plates. Bobbe Seymour has one and Jimmy Day had one.
I am told that Gene Haugh designed the cast aluminum changer instead of the pot metal changer that some of the Super Pro's had.
Also the back board was 3\4" thick instead if the 1\2 inch back board the Super Pro had.
Doug |
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Glenn Dawson
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StephensCity ,Virginia, USA
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Posted 10 Oct 2006 5:23 pm
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| Whatever the low number of production of these Super pro II"s, I only wish I could afford such a piece of history such as this one. |
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Bill Hatcher
From:
Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 11 Oct 2006 7:17 am
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| Have any of these instruments sold for close or above this amount of money?? |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 11 Oct 2006 7:28 am
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| Doug, the undercarriage looks much more 'stock' on your guitar than Bobbe's blond one. Can you explain? |
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doug jernigan
From:
smyrna tn, usa
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Posted 11 Oct 2006 12:31 pm
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Barry I really haven't looked under Bobbe's
Super Pro 11. I beleive Gene said my guitar was pretty close to a Super Pro under carriage. He did use P61 air craft aluminum
for the knee lever brackets instead of the pot metal brackets that was on the guitar when I originally got the guitar. There was a few parts under the guitar that had to be replaced due to wear. I thought Gene Haugh did a good job on top of the guitar as well as the under carraige. Doug |
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Steve Stallings
From:
Houston/Cypress, Texas
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Posted 11 Oct 2006 1:07 pm
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I bought one of these brand new in 1991 at Austin Music North. Yes... brand new. It was sitting in a back corner in the case. There was probably 1/4 inch of dust on it. They told me that it had been sitting in their Corpus Christi store for some time. I just happened to stumble into the store during their going out of business sale. I played this guitar primarily at home for several years and then did the stupidest thing I've ever done with steel guitars.
I traded this guitar in on a new Carter D10 around 1999. They gave me $1500 trade in. You may even be able to search the archives here and see where I tried for weeks to sell it here for $1800... not even a nibble.
The guitar was resold the next day to Bobbie Seymour for over twice that much. I found this out several years later. That guitar has since been sold at least twice by Bobbie. The description of the guitar on Bobbies website called it a "tiger striped, most valuable Shobud in existance". The last time he had the guitar, we talked at length about it. It had a broken piece of wood in one corner near the attachment bolt when I first got it. I fixed that when I first got the guitar... Bobbie told me that the repair was still just fine.
He also offered the guitar back to me at his exact cost... I just couldn't afford it so I had to pass. I've only seen one other one of these in person and that was Steve Lambs. Mine was mint, played great and sounded great. I would love to have it back but it's out of my price range.
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Steve Stallings
The Songs
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