Anyone prefer the baskets to 2-hole pullers

Jon James · Post by **Jon James** » 6 Jun 2005 10:56 am

I am planning on adding some pedals in addition to fixing some of the knee levers on my single sho-bud professional with the racks and barrels. I am going to be adding and replacing a lot of parts, and at this point I am heading in the direction of replacing the baskets with 2-hole puller bellcranks. It seems to me that the bellcranks are vastly superior to the baskets. Does anyone disagree, or at least think they are equal? Am I missing anything before I make the conversion?

Ricky Davis · Post by **Ricky Davis** » 6 Jun 2005 7:47 pm

I love the crossbars with two-hole pullers; pulling Barrel tuners, much better than racks pulling barrel tuners. The racks for the knees are not bad; but for the pedals I prefer crossbars.
Ricky

Farris Currie · Post by **Farris Currie** » 12 Jun 2005 6:04 am

As RICKY says,get rid of those old baskets!!I'm fixing to do that to my old professional, and we have new parts available now from JOHN COOP,great stuff improved,chrome plated,bushing,shims ect. we can now build a new sho-bud and save our old cabinets. Thanks JOHN farris

Al Marcus · Post by **Al Marcus** » 12 Jun 2005 5:43 pm

Jon-I have had both and I agree with Ricky.

I have the barrel tuners with the 2 hole bellcranks on crossbars,I got some from John Coop and have them on my Pro 1....al

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Brian Davis · Post by **Brian Davis** » 13 Jun 2005 12:57 pm

Hey Al or Farris,
Can you guys help me figure out which parts I need to order from John? I have a Professional 8x3 with the basket parts and I want to change to the crossbars with barrels behind 2 hole-pullers. I have John's catalog, trouble is I've never actually seen a Pro-II with the desired mechanism to know what all I'd need to get. Like to get this up to spec with 8x4, but I'll have to take a close look at the knee levers though as I understand the LKR is not factory.

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Joerg Hennig · Post by **Joerg Hennig** » 14 Jun 2005 1:07 pm

Although I think the rack-and-barell system in itself is not bad, I find it still a bit rigid, although I´ve eliminated some friction by taking out all racks that don´t have any pulls on them. And then I think it just could have been built more precisely. I haven´t seen many of them, but mine (one of the early ones) looks as if the person who built it must have been drunk or stoned - the racks are not in a straight line but look as if they have been put in at random. It makes some of the rods hard to pass through. Though Ricky did a superb job getting it to play the way it does now, I believe that great sounding guitar could play better with more refined mechanics. I am not a fan of the conversion to nylon tuners, but two hole bellcranks with barrels using the precision parts that John Coop builds, sounds like a good idea, it might be worth it.

Regards, JH

Leon Roberts · Post by **Leon Roberts** » 14 Jun 2005 5:56 pm

I prefer these.

Leon