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Pete Burak

 

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Post  Posted 24 Feb 2014 7:48 am    
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Looks like Jeff's Emmons S12U is for sale up in Seattle.
Looks cool.
http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/msg/4344284168.html
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Mike Wheeler


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Post  Posted 24 Feb 2014 8:19 am    
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What's a "custom built X-bar"?? Not familiar with that term.
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Pete Burak

 

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Post  Posted 24 Feb 2014 8:44 am    
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Per seller, the custom X-Bar is a custom LKV that is long enough that you can reach it on either side of LKR.
A classic Newman thing.
He liked a very long LKV for ease of engaging it from either E9 or B6 pedals.
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Paddy Long


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Post  Posted 24 Feb 2014 2:37 pm    
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I've got a pic somewhere of me playing this guitar at Jeff's school back in 82 Very Happy
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Joshua Gibson


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Post  Posted 25 Feb 2014 7:54 am    
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Me and Shannon found that thing on CL about four day's ago and let Lynn Stafford know about it...if I just had a spare $3200 I'd be dragging that thing home Myself...and I don't even play U12 Laughing,
You thinkin' about it Pete?.
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Pete Burak

 

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Post  Posted 25 Feb 2014 8:03 am    
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Joshua Gibson wrote:
...You thinkin' about it Pete?.

I went to a Jeff Newman week long seminar in July '82 (I was there the same week as Paddy), and ordered an Emmons Push-Pull S12U 7x4 the week after (7x4 was the setup Jeff recommended at the time, no LKR to block ability to reach B6 pedals).
I basically have it's twin (It has 7x5 now).
I would like to get a LKV like on Jeff's. Maybe a Lynn Stafford mod someday.
Maybe I'll bring it to the next Jam to show.
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Paddy Long


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Post  Posted 25 Feb 2014 3:22 pm    
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Hey Pete I must drag out the class photo and see if we can identify everyone that was there - I remember you, Henning Koch from Denmark and Mike Daily (George Strait) but the rest of them I have forgotten, there was also a guy from Canada too.
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Scott Hay


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Portland, OR / Yucca Valley, CA USA
Post  Posted 25 Feb 2014 7:34 pm    
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I like that aircraft carrier sized knee lever, too cool. Pete, get one! Wait.... You were at a '82 seminar?.... you had to have been a teenager at most back in 82?
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Lana Carroll


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Post  Posted 26 Feb 2014 10:26 am    
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That's an awesome looking guitar. If I hadn't recently bought an ST-12 from Lynn I'd be all over this myself. Anyone have an idea what this guitar would weigh (a universal push pull in a single neck body?)

For some weird reason I have never been very comfortable with single body guitars, even though I am not a very big person! Something about the knee and foot positioning. But the weight, ack! So much weight!
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Pete Burak

 

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Post  Posted 27 Feb 2014 8:15 am    
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Scott Hay wrote:
I like that aircraft carrier sized knee lever, too cool. Pete, get one! Wait.... You were at a '82 seminar?.... you had to have been a teenager at most back in 82?


I was a teenager.
I graduated High School in '81, but had started playing Steel during the summer between 10/11th grade, a Sho-Bud S10 Pro1 with 3x1.
I started playing in bars, underage, in a working band 4-5 nights a week, 5-sets a night, around Cody Wyoming starting Sept 81, and went to Jeff's in July '82.
I just turned 50 and still have that Emmons. The ShoBud is now an S10U 7x5.
Nice!

Lana, Although I can't image it is more than a coupla pounds lighter than a similarly loaded SD12U, my S12U has a nice center of gravity when you have the rear apron against your waist or hip/leg, and your hands on the endplates or the front/rear aprons.
Standing in front of the steel, I grab the rear-right and front-left legs just below the body when I flip it upside down. It is easy to lift and rotate in/out of the case, and move around in general.

When I bought my Emmons S12U 7x4 is was $1895.
Seeing what the Barbara Mandrell guitar recently sold for, I guess this guitar is priced about right.
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Paddy Long


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Post  Posted 6 Mar 2014 2:32 pm    
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Pete if you were a teenager then, I was only slightly more mature hehe !
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Scott Hay


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Post  Posted 6 Mar 2014 7:22 pm    
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That's awesome! I had no idea Pete, but it totally makes sense. So your Bud is your original guitar, love that. Thanks for sharing.
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