A good guitar, just not much retail value, restored or not. Unfortunately, some fairly well known guitars will never be worth much. One thing that everybody needs to be very careful of is getting an old guitar to restore and it having no value, now or in the future. I’m seeing many great steel guitar players reaching back in time and buying guitars like the Fender Dual Professional, Gibson Console Grand and Rickenbacker doubles and triples and definitely the little Rickenbacker Bakelite and Frypan lapsteels. The good thing is again, just like restoring a classic car and driving it daily, a restored steel guitar can be worth the small investment for restoration to enhance its playability. Today, restored correctly, they are definitely getting to be very valuable. I remember twenty five years ago the little three leg Fender guitars were worth almost nothing. Chrome plating, buffing the aluminum and replateing any steel parts will not hurt of the value of the guitar, but done with care can enhance the value. Things like tuning keys and pickups can be changed without hurting the value of the guitar. Restoring a fantastic old Sho-Bud will not hurt the value of the guitar if pains are taken to keep the guitar original. Quality, tone, exotic materials, rarity and so on. Things that are going to make guitars collectable are the things that have made them collectable in the past. It’s hard to predict what guitars being made today will collectable in the future, but it’s a pretty sure bet that Clinesmith and Jackson and some early Emmons push pull guitars will be climbing the list of desirable guitars to have as time goes by. The early Sho-Bud guitars are just now starting to break loose in the world of collectability, originality still being a big factor. Some star owned double and triple neck guitars with 10 string necks and pedals are going from $40 – 80,000. Bigsbys now have reached values that are astronomic for steel guitars, with even old rough ones going for $12,000 and up. The finishes that have been put on most of these old guitars are hand rubbed lacquer applied with the greatest of care.Īs most of you know, I am a Bigsby steel guitar fan also, but Bigsby did not make guitars with the variety of wood that Shot Jackson did at Sho-Bud, or let’s just say, the Jackson family did at Sho-Bud. It won’t be long until just owning a guitar made of some of these exotic woods will put the price of the guitar over the top for most folks. Ebony, zebrawood, purple heart, the best burl walnut, Brazilian rosewood and the greatest birdseye maple that’s ever been found along with many other types of exotic woods that are now on the worldwide endangered list. Sho-Bud has used all the great exotic woods in the past. It’s pretty hard to not love something that’s made of wood that’s so exotic today that buying and selling it is against the law. Let’s face it guys, Sierra, Emmons, MSA, Mullen, GFI and most other brands just don’t have that beauty that reaches out and slaps you in the face the way that the Sho-Bud guitar does. All the beautiful Sho-Buds that show up are really a treat to see. Just look at the steel guitar forum and see where somebody may post asking for pictures of Sho-Buds in the world today. The Sho-Bud guitars are receiving some of this charisma themselves. But let a ’57 Chevrolet convertible pass you from either direction and you’ll definitely say “Wow!” Sure, the new Chevys of today are extremely quick, get great mileage and the air conditioning always blow cold, but when you see one pass you on the road, you never look at it twice. The demand is there regardless of the factories producing them. Being there to see so much of the design work and thinking that went into this wonderful company was amazing and yes it was painful to see it come to the end that it has, however the demand for good Sho-Buds is like the demand for ’32 Fords and ’57 Chevys. Being in Nashville through the golden days of Sho-Bud was very interesting to see. First of all, I would like to thank all of you for the tremendous response I’m getting from you for the articles on players and their guitars.
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