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Topic: Just got my 1974 Emmons PP from Lynn Stafford |
Wayne Franco
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silverdale, WA. USA
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Posted 9 Mar 2020 10:24 am |
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D-10 8 x 4 semi gloss rosewood. Sat in a farm house for 45 years.
Bought this guitar at the Phoenix show. Lynn took it home to go over it for me. What amazing work he does. He took the underside completely apart and cleaned it, added some of his unique touches to it and changed it to my setup. It looks like new and plays equally to a modern guitar. The sound is magnificent.
Thanks Lynn for making this guitar better than I ever dreamed it could be.
Wayne Franco
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Tony Glassman
From:
The Great Northwest
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Posted 9 Mar 2020 12:55 pm
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| Yep, Lynn’s one of the great steel guitar techs. He just required my Legrande and it sounds so much better. Enjoy your push-pull! |
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Bruce W Heffner
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Payson, Arizona
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Posted 9 Mar 2020 7:37 pm NIce Emmons!
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Lynn does excellent and innovative work
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"We live in Arizona now."
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Bill Terry
From:
Bastrop, TX
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Posted 10 Mar 2020 4:50 am
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I've owned a Lynn Stafford guitar, and the attention to detail and making things right is just amazing. Unless you've actually tried to work on one of these Push/Pulls, it's really difficult to understand how good his work is.
That underneath view speaks volumes... I'd bet those rods are within an 1/8" of an inch or less of being perfectly parallel and aligned with the changer fingers.. That stuff matters.. a lot.
Beautiful work Lynn! |
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Tommy Detamore
From:
Floresville, Texas
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Posted 10 Mar 2020 6:41 am
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Like Bill, I have owned a Lynn guitar. He is master for sure, and he has been so helpful and supportive of me in my meager efforts in learning to work on push-pulls. I have studied his work and have learned so much from him.
Thanks to Lynn and guys like him, the Emmons push-pull is the "Energizer Bunny" of the steel guitar world! 
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Tommy Detamore
Quilter Labs, Goodrich Sound, Source Audio, Neunaber Audio, and Stringjoy Authorized Dealer
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SveinungL
From:
Gjøvik - Norway - Europe - Earth
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Posted 12 Mar 2020 2:38 pm
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Looks like fantastic work!
Out of curiosity: what does the long spring do, that looks connected to the pedal 4 shaft? The one screwed into the wood under c6 neck. Some kind of helper spring?
(Sorry for clumsy explanation)
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Lynn Stafford
From:
Ridgefield, WA USA
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Posted 14 Mar 2020 1:10 pm Thanks!
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Thanks to my good friends; Wayne for posting this of course, along with Tony, Bill and Tommy. I really appreciate your very kind words
| SveinungL wrote: |
Looks like fantastic work!
Out of curiosity: what does the long spring do, that looks connected to the pedal 4 shaft? The one screwed into the wood under c6 neck. Some kind of helper spring?
(Sorry for clumsy explanation) |
Sveinung,
Wayne raises C6 strings 4 and 8 to A# with pedal 7. I installed a tension spring as a temporary measure to give a bit more resistance to the pedal, since it felt very light to me. I'll probably come up with a better solution later on. Time was short at the moment, so I just hooked a spring between the lower portion of a bell crank and a pedal cross bar for now.
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Best regards,
Lynn Stafford
STEEL GUITAR WEST
http://www.steelguitarwest.com
Steel Guitar Technician (Restoration, Set-up, Service and Repair work)
Previous Emmons Authorized Dealer & Service Technician (original factory is now closed)
ZumSteel Authorized Service Technician
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Matt Elsen
From:
Deer Harbor, Orcas Island, WA
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Posted 14 Mar 2020 4:47 pm
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Congratulations! That's one nice looking guitar, Wayne.
I'm another proud owner of a Lynn Stafford PP. He's an absolute wizard at what he does and I want to thank him every time I sit down to play it.
Cheers! |
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SveinungL
From:
Gjøvik - Norway - Europe - Earth
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Posted 15 Mar 2020 4:11 am
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Lynn: ok good to hear that it was something «understandable» for us regular mortals 
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Thanks Sveinung Lilleheier
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Jeff Evans
From:
Cowtown and The Bill Cox Outfit
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Posted 15 Mar 2020 5:21 am Farm-House Emmons
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Good thread, and I think there are far worse album titles than, "Farm-House Emmons". (If that ain't country . . . )
An interesting thing about push-pull techs is the very different roads up the mountain. As examples, big oil and big springs versus minimizing or avoiding those things. Choices.
I'm agnostic about (and very open to the rationales of) much of that stuff, and Lynn's/Wayne's undercarriage there looks mighty, mighty clean. (From the touches of red, maybe Lynn likes the lube favored also by some of the fly-reel guys.)
Re: using a spring to stiffen a pedal, someone (and I wish I could recall who) called that a "hurter spring".  |
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Steve Spitz
From:
New Orleans, LA, USA
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Posted 15 Mar 2020 1:08 pm
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Don’t forget, Lynn works his magic on a lot of steels, not only Push Pulls.
He set up my Zum beyond perfection. Really precise.
Thanks Lynn! |
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Mike Scaggs
From:
Nashville, TN
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Posted 22 Mar 2020 4:05 am
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Lynn Stafford is a Master Technician. I am proud to call him Friend.
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I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you
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Peter Freiberger
From:
California, USA
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Posted 22 Mar 2020 7:54 am
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| Lynn does beautiful work and is one of the nicest guys you could ever hope to meet. I know we're all pulling for him now during his medical ordeal. |
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Wayne Franco
From:
silverdale, WA. USA
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Posted 22 Mar 2020 11:53 am Hi Peter and all who posted here
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Lynn Stafford is as nice a person as you will ever know. I was totally surprised when he said my guitar was finished so come get it. With his health issue just surfacing I didn't have any problem waiting for however long it would take. He wound up taking the entire under carriage out, cleaning it in carburetor cleaner, reassembling it while adding a few new parts specific to my copedent and adjusting it to play as good as my new MSA and my Zum.
I can't keep my hands of that guitar it sounds so good. Emmons #1924 D sings like bird. |
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John Steele
From:
Renfrew, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 25 Mar 2020 9:07 am
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Congratulations, Wayne. My main gigging axe is a close sister to yours - #1920 D - also rosewood. It's been a very reliable, good sounding steel. No doubt yours will be too !
- John
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Mike Wilkerson
From:
Luther Oklahoma
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Posted 25 Mar 2020 10:15 am
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Can’t say enough about Lynn’s work. He treats every Push Pull as if it were his own guitar. Lynn is an asset to everything push pull and he’s one heck of a nice guy. Slim
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