Hi All,
I’m considering selling my Sho-Bud D10 8x4 “The Professional” and am looking for advice on a decent selling price. The cabinet is in excellent condition, only a few very minor bar dings. The original “basket” changer hardware has been completely upgraded to John Coop changers, which made a huge improvement in pedal noise and smoothness. The original case has some road rash but is still sound.
Serial number #4834, so built in Jan 1974 according to a Gene Haugh post on this site… I believe that’s near the end of The Professional model production. I purchased it used in 1976.
WOW! The under-carriage is all jeweled up. From that standpoint, it is one of the nicest I have seen. The cabinet looks pristine and clean, as well. I am not familiar with the changer upgrade, I will have to go to school on that.
I am no Sho-Bud expert, but my gut feeling is that your Bud would sell very quickly at $3,200 to $3,500. That is just my humble opinion. Someone like Ricky Davis may have a more accurate estimate to offer.
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Thanks guys! FYI, the upgraded undercarriage is not from a Pro II (although it has a similar look). It is from renowned steel technician John Coop (RIP), who custom built his own superb changer mechanisms for older Sho-Buds. If you’ve ever played a stock Professional you know that the original “basket” style changers can be noisy and sloppy. The Coop changers are a significant upgrade in my opinion.
Full disclosure: John did not perform the upgrade in person, I ordered the parts from him and did the mod myself. I’m pleased with the result, very smooth, quiet and positive.
Yes my partner; John Coop made most all that stuff underneath you see and you can see they're two hole pullers with brass rollers with the rods running through with a barrel tuner behind so that means the changer fingers are still the original single Raise single lower tuned by barrels cuz you can raise or lower a finger as many times you want depending on how many barrels you have down
the rod. So that will be the best sounding finger tops that ShoBud ever made, is the 6061 aluminum finger top with a pen that you hook the string on. That's what's in this guitar and all those parts underneath are far advanced in movement then shobud ever made with their Pro-II cross bars. Coop's crossbars you can see even have nylon bushings in some of the brackets of course he has adjustable knee levers with a set screw underneath where it hits to make the knee closer or further for you. so yes it plays smooth as can be I'm sure no rattle noise because the racks are gone and I happen to know this guitar and I can't really say a price because to me this is a Priceless ShoBud custom professional with a Pro-II type mechanism underneath made by John Coop, my partner and I miss him so much. rest in peace John; and I'm so proud of all the work that we've done together and eventually taught James Morehead which continued building incredible parts and he passed away, rest in peace James.
Ricky
Dang, it’s a tough decision to sell this baby. I’m a multi-instrumentalist (standard guitar is my primary axe but I also play keyboards) and I haven’t done any steel playing in at least 5 years. I’m getting to be an old geezer so starting to downsize, so… hmmm.
If I do decide to sell I’ll post it on this site. I am nervous about shipping, though. I’ve read that some folks just box the case in padded cardboard and leave the handle exposed for carrying. This beast is heavy enough that a pallet almost makes more sense to me. Thoughts?
Thanks Ricky!
Dang, it’s a tough decision to sell this baby. I’m a multi-instrumentalist (standard guitar is my primary axe but I also play keyboards) and I haven’t done any steel playing in at least 5 years. I’m getting to be an old geezer so starting to downsize, so… hmmm.
Yeah I hear ya George. I truly believe instruments should be PLAYED and not sit. That's why I sold all my steels when I finally found the 2nd LDG made and after playing it a month I knew I would NOT PLAY my other steels and so I sold all of them to friends that wanted to play them on and on; including that hand made Blue Darlin Fulawka you see in my pic there with Jagwire string endorsement....> so tuff decision, sure, but Nothing will break on that Sho-bud if dropped by shipper even if just in Case....Yes, most modern steels will crumble to a million pieces..lol; but the Sho-bud will not and I've been restoring and shipping sho-buds for almost 30 years now with NO BREAKS WITH ANYTHING>But I always guarantee if anything breaks, I fix for FREE....and because Coop was my partner; he had that same guarantee and so I'll carry that...if anything breaks on this Sho-bud you have; I will fix it for free.
Ricky
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