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Bob Shade

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 8:45 pm
by usol7
what a heck of a guy. He is very similar to folks like Lindy Fralin, and Dr. Z, and Red Rhodes and Walter Carter and Eugene Moles.
very very helpful and will take time away from his production to answer and direct me to his competitors when he cannot come up with a soloution.

He helped me immensely on my 65 Mark I.
Now I so want his deke dickerson model.
I gotta pay bills, so no Beautiful TNM town Hall for me.
Bob please take payments, then when it's paid off, Mail away
All Hail Bob Shade

Re: Bob Shade

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 9:29 pm
by Sarah93003
usol7 wrote:what a heck of a guy. He is very similar to folks like Lindy Fralin, and Dr. Z, and Red Rhodes and Walter Carter and Eugene Moles.
very very helpful and will take time away from his production to answer and direct me to his competitors when he cannot come up with a soloution.

He helped me immensely on my 65 Mark I.
Now I so want his deke dickerson model.
I gotta pay bills, so no Beautiful TNM town Hall for me.
Bob please take payments, then when it's paid off, Mail away
All Hail Bob Shade



Hail Bob! ....oh...wait....isn't that a comet? :lol:

Re: Bob Shade

Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 3:54 am
by eltuce

Re: Bob Shade

Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 7:00 am
by mark1
eltuce,thats so funny. LMAO!!!

Re: Bob Shade

Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 7:03 am
by TerryTNM
You can't go wrong dealing with Bob Shade. He goes the extra mile.
-Terry

Re: Bob Shade

Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 8:26 am
by Bob Shade
Thank you! Nice one El Tuce.

I enjoy helping other guys who love their Mosrite's and Hallmarks, TNM's etc.. as much as I love mine. I have been restoring Mosrite's for years, from firewood body's and necks, headstocks chopped off, rewinding or making new pickups, creating parts that no longer exist to get the job done, re-finishing and re-screening logo's, you name it, it has come through my shop, and I love to make them look like they just rolled off the assembly line in the 60's. I have been doing it since the 70's and still enjoy it to this day.

The real thanks should go to the creators of the forum and it's members and guy's like Deke Dickerson who continue to carry the torch for all of us. This forum is a great place to find information, friends, and help with your on your old project whom without, we would not be able to do what we do.

Mosriteforummembersforever!

Bob Shade

Re: Bob Shade

Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 9:50 am
by Sarah93003
Bob, from time to time I get contacted by someone via my website with dead pickups, etc. Is it okay to put them in touch with you to rebuild them?

Re: Bob Shade

Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 11:43 am
by Bob Shade
Hi Sarah, absolutely.............I just rebuilt one the other day for a guy in MA. It was a registered trademark Mosrite pickup from 66. These had a slightly larger bobbin and we not wound quite as hot from the factory as a result because you could not get as much wire on them. It wound out to about 10K which was what most of the later examples read at. It varied, I have seen some as low as 8K which for Mosrite was I guess you could say underwound.

On a side note, if the pickup is missing parts we have original NOS Mosrite magnets in stock from the 60's and 70's we have acquired.

One more point of interest if anybody has some firewood projects out there, I have apr. 100 original Mosrite fingerboard blanks that have been stored since 1968 and are bone dry and will provide amazing tone. Some are Indian and some are brazilian rosewood. I acquired these at my archaelogical dig at Joe Halls old shop. He had alot of NOS Mosrite parts and these fingerboards were laying under a table with about 3" of dirt on top. It was like digging out treasure from King Tut's tomb! Joe acquired these parts at the beginning of the Hallmark Guitar period in about 66 to build the Hallmark Swept-Wing's and this is what was left. The boards are blanks and have not been cut or slotted.

Man am I glad to have this stuff now because finding it, is half the battle.

Terry, need fretboards?

Bob

Re: Bob Shade

Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 12:23 pm
by Sarah93003
I do! Email sent. :mrgreen:

Re: Bob Shade

Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 1:16 pm
by Bob Shade
Thanks Sarah, I just sent Dennis 2- Brazil boards with striking grain. You can ask him in a bout a week how he likes em.

Bob