Formica Sho-Bud sighting!

Jim Smith · Post by **Jim Smith** » 1 Jan 2010 11:03 am

I'm pretty sure this is Buddy Charleton on a Formica Sho-Bud with Ernest Tubb starting at 43 seconds in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrC7qIZl ... re=related

Roger Shackelton · Post by **Roger Shackelton** » 1 Jan 2010 6:06 pm

HI JIM,

The last performance is in a small auditorium.
Do you have any idea who's playing the lap steel guitar?

It appears to be in the 1940s. ??

ROGER

Clyde Mattocks · Post by **Clyde Mattocks** » 5 Jan 2010 10:01 pm

The last clip is taken from a movie which I saw as a kid, could be "Hollywood Barn Dance". The steel player looks like a very young Jerry Byrd, and sure sounds like him. If so, would be the first time I ever saw him with a hat.

David Wright · Post by **David Wright** » 6 Jan 2010 4:18 am

Jim,
How many did they build??? I think this is rare

Jim Smith · Post by **Jim Smith** » 6 Jan 2010 8:05 am

I had only heard of one before, and it seems like Hal Rugg had it. This is the first one I've seen in action. Maybe it's the same guitar.

Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 6 Jan 2010 8:10 am

I've heard that they made two.

Jim Smith · Post by **Jim Smith** » 6 Jan 2010 1:29 pm

I found this picture on my computer, but don't remember the story behind it.

David Wright · Post by **David Wright** » 7 Jan 2010 12:35 pm

Well, I emailed the Jacksons, and got this reply from Dawn, Sho Bud never made a Formica guitar..so, could these have been done after they left the factory??

Heres Dawns mail

Correct. Never built a formica Sho-Bud. The only time Dad or Uncle Harry has used formica is in the past couple years on our Jackson Steel Blackjack model.

Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 7 Jan 2010 1:51 pm

The formica guitars were built by Shot, not his boys.

Send Bobbe Seymour an e-mail, he can fill you in.

Bobby Boggs · Post by **Bobby Boggs** » 7 Jan 2010 2:46 pm

Bobby Burns · Post by **Bobby Burns** » 7 Jan 2010 7:12 pm

The one Buddy is playing in the clip is a cabinet end perm. It is most likely painted black, not formica. I would think blackwood or ebony would even be more likely than formica on this one.

David Wright · Post by **David Wright** » 8 Jan 2010 8:53 am

well, got this info in a email today

David,
I have the disassembled single, and I sold the double the was made for Hal Rugg to Bobby Reid recording studios here in Hendersonville.

so, there was 2 made ...

Jim Smith · Post by **Jim Smith** » 10 Jan 2010 10:10 am

Could this be Buddy Charleton playing yet another Formica Sho-Bud in this clip? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVh1E_tbzyo

Casey Lowmiller · Post by **Casey Lowmiller** » 10 Jan 2010 2:04 pm

I'm pretty sure that the brownish one in Jim Smiths photo was Hal Rugg's.

It looks like Charleton's is a D-10 as well. It looks like it could me formica...maybe just painted though.

Perhaps someone should ask Buddy Charleton, I bet he can perhaps fill us in. Of course, Bobbe, Ricky Davis and James Morehead could probably fill us in too!!!

Casey