so what do we have here this is a showbud pedal steel guitar i mean it's a cross between a two
neck guitar and a piano it's almost that bad i came to the pawn shop today to try to sell my
showbud pedal steel guitar i'd love to get three thousand dollars i don't play it i don't see
myself learning to play it so time to move it on where in the world did you get this well my late
husband acquired it in uh from a music store in downtown phoenix and when he cleaned it up
he got pretty wood inlays and stuff i do know that showbud is one of the main makers of these guitars
the pedal steal is one of the hardest instruments in the world to play i've always liked country
music you'll see a pedal steal or lap still on the stage with them at all times why do only old guys
play it because it's almost a lost hardcore and a lot of the music today is stupid so they don't use
them nowadays these damn kids press a few buttons on a computer and think they're making music
this is a real instrument it takes an actual musician to play it these are actually duplicate
fretboards somebody had tried to clean the old ones and some sort of solvent took the paint
with it okay i love when people do that my big concern is that these are not exactly popular
instruments so we might be sitting on it for a long time but if this is the gibson or fender of
pedal steels it might have a historical value that makes it worth a lot of cash what do you
want to do with it well i'm hoping to sell it okay any idea on what you want to get out of it
well the gentleman that my late husband spoke to indicated it might be worth three or four thousand
you know i just i don't know anything about him i got a buddy who owns a guitar shop here in town
he's really good at this stuff do you mind if i bring him down here i'd really
love to get someone's opinion if this thing checks out i'll definitely make an offer on it
you just don't see these that often i mean there's got to be some country musicians out
there that are just dying to have it hey jeff hey how you doing uh guys usually calm me down every
time they get anything that they're not too sure about guitar wise looks like a nice old showbud
showbud was the first company to really make a professional pedal steel guitar pedal steels are
kind of a different animal all together than a normal guitar it's played with a tone bar just
basically like a slide you would run the slide down and then you could use you know the pedals
and the knee lever on it and you can set them to a set note so you can bend the string to
that note any old country ballad you hear that really weeping guitar sound in the background
that's this the show bud and the pedal steel kind of all evolved from lap steels which were
used in hawaiian music country guys started picking it up because the nice sound that it makes
jesse can you play these things i absolutely do not know how to play
this deal but i mean we can check it and make sure everything works on it well give it a shot
yeah it's all in working order uh you're not an eclipse steel guitarist
not in the least so let's get down to basics jesse what's it worth
i would say in this one's condition probably between 25 to 3 300 bucks
well my man i appreciate it no problem man the guys get this show bud it's not a super quick
sell but you'll sell it a real professional is gonna want a show bud so what's your bottom dollar
well could you do 2 500 no i don't have people knocking down the door to buy these things
what do you think corey i'd give you like 1200 bucks for it
would you come up a little bit hit me with a number
how about 1800 how about 1500 1500 and you got a deal that's the best i'm going to go
i think i'd like to see if i can find somebody that would be willing to pay a little bit more
for it all right well thanks a lot and let me help you carry this to your car okay
i think it will be worth it in the long run to try to get a
little bit more money i think it'll be worth worth the time to do that
you