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Topic: Emmons D10: Please Close this Ad |
Cliff Kane
From:
the late great golden state
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Posted 18 Nov 2010 11:37 am |
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Please close this ad. Thank you.
For sale: 1966 Emmons D10, 8x4 standard Emmons set-up, black mica, metal necks, "bolt-on" changers, invoice number 2736 (pre-"serial" number system). The guitar has the early solid black top pickups, it sounds sweet and bright, excellent Emmons tone. From what I know and can tell the mica looks original, I am guessing the flocking is original; the pickup selector switch has been replaced; wooden pedal stop bar; the cross-shaft end blocks are the early thick type except for some for the knee lever brackets which must have been added sometime after 1966; I don't know if the pedal bar decal is original or not (it is the less common off-set chevron design); there is a spacer on the pedal bar shaft between the first and second pedal; there are metal anti-bow strips to the bottom of the front and rear aprons; it looks like there are holes in the mica under the front apron decal, so I am assuming that at one time it had a badge instead of a decal and someone changed it back to the correct decal; the name/word "CRAFORD" is engraved on the inside of the endplate; the fretboards look like later boards with the darker blue atomic symbols; there are a few dings in the top of the rear neck between the fretboard and the pick up, the mica is a little loose at the top of the rear deck. All of these details should be visible in the photos. The guitar is in good, but not pristine condition. It plays and sounds great as is. It comes with a newer Thomas case in faux tooled leather, and a denim leg bag. The case is in good condition, but there are a few worn spots in the interior material over the riser blocks. I have an extra set of used fretboards with chrome frets that I will include with the guitar. Includes a D2F cover.
Last edited by Cliff Kane on 6 Dec 2011 7:24 am; edited 11 times in total |
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Bill Cutright
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Akron, OH
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Posted 18 Nov 2010 4:26 pm
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wow...
that belongs on the first floor of a museum...
I'd be surprised if it makes it thru the nite.. |
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Cliff Kane
From:
the late great golden state
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Posted 15 Dec 2010 10:25 pm
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| Guitar is still available. |
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Cliff Kane
From:
the late great golden state
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Posted 17 Dec 2010 10:55 am
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| ttt |
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Cliff Kane
From:
the late great golden state
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Posted 4 Aug 2011 10:46 am
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This guitar is for sale again. Need to raise some money for house repairs.
Thanks,
Cliff |
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Cliff Kane
From:
the late great golden state
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Posted 9 Aug 2011 6:53 am
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| TTT. Guitar is still available. |
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Bruce W Heffner
From:
Payson, Arizona
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Posted 9 Aug 2011 5:40 pm
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| Should not this be a fatback and not a cutback? |
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Cliff Kane
From:
the late great golden state
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Posted 10 Aug 2011 5:33 am
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Bruce,
I don't think Emmons made the "fat back" cabinets until the early 1970's. |
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Erv Niehaus
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Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 10 Aug 2011 7:31 am
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| I haven't seen a p/p that wasn't a fat back. |
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Cliff Kane
From:
the late great golden state
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Posted 10 Aug 2011 9:42 am
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| Erv Niehaus wrote: |
| I haven't seen a p/p that wasn't a fat back. |
Do guys mean the rear apron? "Fat back" being a rear apron that is rectangular without the cut out for your legs? I'd guess that most pp's do not have the fat back apron: wasn't the fat back limited to the early-mid 70's guitars? Anyway, a 1966 Emmons is not a fat back cabinet. |
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Chris Lucker
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Los Angeles, California USA
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Posted 10 Aug 2011 10:10 am
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Erv, the earliest Emmons guitars had rear aprons that were very slim. Lower than the cross shafts (imagine guitar upside down.) The cross shafts were lower in those days too.
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Chris Lucker
Red Bellies, Bigsbys and a lot of other guitars. |
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Erv Niehaus
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Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 10 Aug 2011 10:13 am
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Chris,
Chances are you're right.
All I remember is that the back apron was straight and not cut out like the "cut tails". |
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Chris Lucker
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Los Angeles, California USA
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Posted 10 Aug 2011 10:25 am
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The first two or three had a very slim rear apron, so low that the cross shafts missed the rear apron and were supported by Marlen cross shaft brackets. The cross shafts were lower in those days, meaning closer to the cabinet, so the rear apron was very slim on those guitars. Then from around May or June 1964 on the rest of the Emmons guitars had the "normal" cut out rear aprons until they changed to the full back, or fat back apron in -- when, guys, 1971? IOr was it about the same time they had wide pedals and narrow spacing in 1972? I do not know much about 1970s Emmons guitars.
Here is a photo of one of my Wraparounds.
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Chris Lucker
Red Bellies, Bigsbys and a lot of other guitars. |
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Chris Lucker
From:
Los Angeles, California USA
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Posted 10 Aug 2011 10:37 am
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Cliff's Bolt-on plays like a dream, by the way. Very nice playing guitar with a low price.
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Chris Lucker
Red Bellies, Bigsbys and a lot of other guitars. |
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Erv Niehaus
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Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 10 Aug 2011 11:36 am
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Chris,
I see the p/p has a #002 serial number.
I don't have any p/p's with anywhere near that low a number (I have a #1002)
but I do have a quad Stringmaster with a #0002 serial number.  |
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Bobby Boggs
From:
Upstate SC.
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Posted 10 Aug 2011 12:09 pm
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| Do guys mean the rear apron? "Fat back" being a rear apron that is rectangular without the cut out for your legs? I'd guess that most pp's do not have the fat back apron: wasn't the fat back limited to the early-mid 70's guitars? Anyway, a 1966 Emmons is not a fat back cabinet. |
Cliff, they, the fatback's were introduced to the masses in late 69. Many 1970's and almost all the 71's and 72's I've seen were fatbacks.After that the shaped rear apron was pretty the norm. If I remember correctly? The fat-back's remained an option till the PP's were phased out.
Great looking 66.
bb |
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Bruce W Heffner
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Payson, Arizona
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Posted 10 Aug 2011 6:50 pm
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| Thanks guys, I always wanted to know the answer to that question. I did not know that it was an option. I do have a 70 PP with the fatback and wondered what the significance was about the fatback. |
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Mike Vallandigham
From:
Martinez, CA
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Posted 11 Aug 2011 8:42 am
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Hey Bruce,
I have a 1974 (that you sold me), which is indeed a Fatback. I'm still enjoying the heck outo of that guitar. Thanks again, and nice to see you here!
This black '66 is sure a beauty, It seems the price is VERY reasonable. I'm sure someone will get a heck of a guitar. |
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Cliff Kane
From:
the late great golden state
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Posted 16 Aug 2011 3:27 pm
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TTT.
Guitar is still available.
Thanks for all of the interest and good discussion. |
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Cliff Kane
From:
the late great golden state
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Hook Moore
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South Charleston,West Virginia
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Cliff Kane
From:
the late great golden state
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Posted 7 Sep 2011 4:34 am
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| Thanks for your kind words, Hook. Yes, the economy has sucked for far too long. |
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Johnny Cox
From:
Williamsom WVA, raised in Nashville TN, Lives in Hallettsville Texas
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Posted 11 Sep 2011 12:46 pm
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I'm drooling here. I haven't owned a PP since 1979 and I'm really wanting one. Between Joan and I we already have nine guitars and can't part with any of them. Guess it's time to buy a lotto ticket. 
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Johnny "Dumplin" Cox
"YANKIN' STRINGS & STOMPIN' PEDALS" since 1967. |
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Cliff Kane
From:
the late great golden state
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Posted 23 Oct 2011 1:12 pm
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| TTT, still available. |
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Cliff Kane
From:
the late great golden state
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Posted 28 Oct 2011 8:49 am
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| TTT, and a lower price. |
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