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John

Roland Buras

Sho~Bud serial #s are usually 4 or 5 digit #s with no dashes.

[This message was edited by Bob Knight on 05 August 2001 at 11:23 AM.]

And that goes double for Bobbe Seymour as well. I know the old saying about noone is perfect but in hindsight, I must say, I feel pretty dumb these days. Think I'll go check my forhead in the mirror and see if Stupid is starting to show through yet.

If so, did Bobbe restore it?

Can we see it now?

[This message was edited by Savell on 19 August 2005 at 01:45 PM.]

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73 PRO II, 79/80 PRO III
Steelkings,Fender guitars,Preston covers,
and Taylor(Tut that is)
Reso's
"Of all the things Ive lost in life, I miss my mind the most"

[This message was edited by Larry Robbins on 19 August 2005 at 05:08 PM.]

Since it was recently brought back, I felt a current update is needed. Here is the update, written by Lloyd today:

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My original, proto-type L.D.G. has never surfaced since Tommy White's
original posting in 2001. Since no comparable model steel of any brand
existed prior to that steel it was truly an "original".
In it's D-10 state it was built in 1970, and although it must have been a
"Professional" Sho-Bud, that appellation was not on the steel. Instead, as
my studio pictures verify, it merely had Sho-Bud, Nashville, Tennessee in
one upper corner (slightly off parallel), in the other lower column,
Distributed by Baldwin. That is all. There was never an acronym of LDG nor
any other initials on that guitar. It did have the "barrel" system and was,
I believe, the best of any Sho-Bud I've played.
I played it for three years and it became a padded model from December
1972 - May 1973. The end plate of the C6th neck was left open during that
time, because Shot Jackson had David, his son, put all of the C6th parts in
a plastic bag, certain I would want to restore it to original status after I
found out one can't play music on steel without a C6th neck. We weighed the
parts. Eighteen pounds!
Once others around the globe started asking Sho-Bud to build one of those
new creatures we collaborated on the design and marketing of the Sho-Bud
LDG, a model of which is now available from most, if not all manufacturers,
albeit under different names. We failed to copyright and patent the idea.
A few years ago, subsequent to Tommy's post of inquiry, Duane Marrs and
Harry Jackson (of Sho-Bud) both comfirmed to me the virtual certainty the
proto-type was restored to it's original status of D-10 once I returned it
since, at the time the D-10 would have commanded a better sale price. Thus
someone, somewhere has a dark green D-10 Sho-Bud built in 1970 that has
"distributed by Baldwin" in the lower right casing which has significant
historical value and, I suppose, a rather high dollar worth.

-Lloyd Green

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1975 Sho~Bud Pro III Custom (8-7)
1981 Peavey Session 500

The "D" in LDG is for Mrs. Lloyd Green's first name "DOT"