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Topic: Wooden neck Emmons |
Eddie Malray
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South Fulton, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 19 Sep 2002 4:11 pm |
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| When I bought my guitar twenty-two years ago, I had an old Emmons catalog. On the cover was a picture of a wooden neck Emmons. It was beautiful. My Question is, were there many of these made and are there many out there? I,m kinda intrested in one because I've always like the wood neck sound but I like the Emmons quality. THANKS, EDDIE MALRAY |
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Al Miller
From:
Waxahachie Texas
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Posted 19 Sep 2002 4:47 pm
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Eddie!
I had a wood neck emmons my dad bought new in 1977. i played that thing for yrs it had the best tone of ANY!! steel i have had since. i was young and dumb at the time and sold the guitar at a pawn shop in tulsa Ok (Goldenpawn)I think it was. around 1989 i wish i could find that old girl!! if you have aline on one i would say buy the bugger.. if any one out there knows of an old wood neck p/p that is green laquer with a crack on the front by the right end plate let me know i would sure like to get that guitar back.
Boo MIller
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Tim Sergent
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Hendersonville, TN, USA
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Posted 19 Sep 2002 4:52 pm
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Hey, Eddie,
I have an old p/p that has wooden necks. Probably '71-'73 in age I'm guessing. I can't remember the serial#, but quite a while back (when I did know the serial #) I was talking to Bobbe Seymour and he said that it was early '70's. Mine is satin finished rosewood and I wouldn't trade it for any guitar made. They may not play quite as well as an all pull guitar, but I don't think you can beat 'em for tone. If you can find one...latch on to it!!!
Good Luck! Tim
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Paul Warnik
From:
Illinois,USA
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Posted 19 Sep 2002 6:33 pm
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| I have a beautiful Blue lacquer wood neck D-10 P/P with 9 and 8 from the factory-and it has NOT faded to Green-probably one of the finest looking Emmons wood bodies that I have seen-tone quite different than my 2 wraparounds or my bolt-on-more midrange and being a "fatback" it has little if any cabinet drop |
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Brad Sarno
From:
St. Louis, MO USA
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Posted 19 Sep 2002 6:47 pm
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Isn't that what John Hughey played for years? A wood neck Emmons push/pull?
Brad Sarno
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KENNY KRUPNICK
From:
Columbus, Ohio
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Posted 19 Sep 2002 10:51 pm
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| Tim Sergent,your Emmons has THAT tone! You did a wonderful session up at Harvest Studio back about 3+ years ago. |
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Jay Ganz
From:
Out Behind The Barn
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Posted 20 Sep 2002 6:11 am
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 [This message was edited by Jay Ganz on 10 October 2002 at 08:35 AM.] |
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Dave Seddon
From:
Leicester, England.
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Posted 20 Sep 2002 7:39 am
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Hello Eddie
I have just swapped a Sho-Bud for a wood neck Emmons, as yet I haven't had time to try it out, this is the most beautiful dark green, (no crack in the laquer though Al,) If I could figure out how to put a picture on here I would do, this is an SD 10, whether it has always been or not, I don't know.
Cheers
Dave |
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Steve Stallings
From:
Houston/Cypress, Texas
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Posted 20 Sep 2002 7:44 am
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Jay...
That looks nice but I'm puzzled ( big surprise  ) That looks like a wraparound but has the later emblem. I thought the wraparound laquer guitars had decals instead of the plastic emblem?
BTW... this is really unfair Jay! Two gorgeous PP! |
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Herb Steiner
From:
Briarcliff TX 78669, pop. 2,064
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Posted 20 Sep 2002 8:53 am
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Steve, it's not a wraparound changer, it's a bolt-on. All woodnecks had bolt-on changers.
Jay, please show the man your wraparound to enlighten him on this most important part of Emmons history/terminology.
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Herb's Steel Guitar Pages
Texas Steel Guitar Association
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Jim Eaton
From:
Santa Susana, Ca
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Posted 20 Sep 2002 10:27 am
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MY 75PP D-10 is wood body & wood necks. I ordered it that way after hearing John Hughy on the "Highway Call" album with Dicky Betts.
Fat back, no cabnet drop, and tone to the bone. Mike Cass recently did a complete restoration on this guitar and she plays better now than when she was brand new!
JE:-)> |
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Steve Stallings
From:
Houston/Cypress, Texas
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Posted 20 Sep 2002 11:24 am
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ok... now I see. I musta been blinded by the glare of the endplates 
Jays pic of his black wraparound PP is what gave me serious gas for one. I'm better now. |
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Paul Warnik
From:
Illinois,USA
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Posted 20 Sep 2002 12:03 pm
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| There goes Jay teasing everybody again! |
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Bobby Boggs
From:
Upstate SC.
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Posted 20 Sep 2002 11:39 pm
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| I special ordered a wood neck wood body 72.It sounded good.But I also had a 72 mica with aluminum necks.To me it just ain't an Emmons without aluminum necks. Just my 2 cents. bb |
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Duane Dunard
From:
Troy, MO. U.S.A.
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Posted 21 Sep 2002 6:58 am
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| I bought a black all-wood Emmons in the early 1970's that lacquer-checked severly,(spyder cracks all over the body), when it was less then a year old. I remember being very upset over it at the time,but that's all old history now, and looking back, it was probably caused by my actions in transporting the guitar in cold weather. I still prefer the tone of a lacquered finish guitar with wood necks. [This message was edited by Duane Dunard on 21 September 2002 at 08:00 AM.] |
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Wayne Cox
From:
Chatham, Louisiana, USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 21 Sep 2002 7:37 am
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A wooden neck on an Emmons? Isn't that kind of like Strat Pickups on a Les Paul? Oh well,to each his own. That which sounds good,is good! Nice pictures of a beautiful instrument. Thanks for sharing!
W.C. |
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Paul Warnik
From:
Illinois,USA
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Posted 21 Sep 2002 4:53 pm
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| I have owned at least four wooden-necked Emmons guitars including number 11/64/007W (seventh Emmons made) there is nothing wrong with the tone compared to the metal neck guitars-some wood necks sound very similar to the metal ones and the wood ones stay in tune better when subjected to changes in temperature-No-I would not put strat pickups on a Les Paul-but certainly many have added humbuckers to their strat (I rather have a strat and a Les Paul!) some of those went through my hands too including a '56 goldtop L.P. and a '65 burst strat |
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Paul Warnik
From:
Illinois,USA
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Posted 21 Sep 2002 5:16 pm
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| In further clarification of what I stated above-the four wooden neck guitars that I had-two of them were wooden necks on mica bodies-those were the ones that were the hardest to discern any difference in tone when compared to metal necks-but the other two with wood lacquer bodies and wooden necks had the mellower more mid-range tone than the others-so I would therefore conclude that it is not so much the neck (metal vs. wood) but rather the cabinet (mica vs. lacquer) that makes the noticable difference in tone(on the old P/P anyway at least to my ears) That leaves the question then of how does a metal neck Emmons with wood lacquer body sound? I never had one! |
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Jay Ganz
From:
Out Behind The Barn
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Posted 21 Sep 2002 6:01 pm
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Paul,
As you would figure, they're just a slight
variation of the classic Push/Pull tone.
[This message was edited by Jay Ganz on 10 October 2002 at 08:36 AM.] |
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Paul Warnik
From:
Illinois,USA
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Posted 21 Sep 2002 6:25 pm
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| Jay-There you go again man! I envy your Emmons collection-you have some real beauties-I wish that I had a good camera and scanner so I could post pictures near as swell as yours! |
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CrowBear Schmitt
From:
Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Posted 24 Sep 2002 2:40 am
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 24 Sep 2002 3:10 am
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| I'd have to guess that at least 4 out of 5 Emmons' guitars were made with aluminum necks. Still, that means there are hundreds of the wooden-neck variety out there! [This message was edited by Donny Hinson on 24 September 2002 at 04:12 AM.] |
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Herb Steiner
From:
Briarcliff TX 78669, pop. 2,064
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Bobbe Seymour
From:
Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 24 Sep 2002 11:54 am
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Although not on my web-page, I have several Emmons , wood neck guitars for sale. All with warrenty and sounding great , the way they should. All are early models, (60's).
Let me know if anyone is really interested in one of these incredible, asending value guitars.
Bobbe |
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