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Topic: 70s Orange-Burst Lacquer Emmons P/P Bolt-On Wood Necks D10 |
Dave Mudgett
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Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 19 Jul 2022 9:11 pm |
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Please ask any questions via email or PM. The guitar is at the house in Nashville. There are people there most of the time, but I'm not there. So it is possible to see the guitar, but it will require some coordination. Obviously, I can't possibly ship the guitar. I'm fine to keep it as my steel when I'm down there, or sell it and bring another one down next time I go. $3400 cash, local sale only. Again - please email or PM.
I got this guitar from Damir a few years ago. It is a strikingly beautiful finish, to my tastes, and it really sounds good and plays well. There was discussion on that thread about this being one of Buddy Charleton's guitars - it was stated further that this guitar came from one of his students who got it after Buddy passed. That discussion is now gone from the thread, I have no additional provenance, and I'm not pricing this higher than I would any standard Emmons push-pull. But it was my understanding when I bought the guitar that it was indeed one of Buddy's guitars.
The guitar has some cosmetic imperfections, including a fairly typical top crack at the end of the C6 changer to the right of that neck. I've tried to photograph some of this. If you are squeamish about lacquer chips and bar dings, this is not the guitar for you. Lacquer checking and sometimes chips are part of the lacquered finish experience. Any vintage guitar guys I know, including me, would scoff at the thought that this guitar is not "pretty clean". But it is not perfect.
The guitar also has Legrande-style pedals. And of course, the wood necks with their standard-issue bolt-on changers. The tuners are the bean-style from the 60s or earlier 70s, not the later metal keystones.
8 pedals and 5 knee levers. E9 setup is pretty standard Emmons ABC with E raises/lowers on LKL/LKR. LKV is string 5 B=>Bb, RKL is string 6 G#=>F#, and RKR lowers 2. C6 setup is also pretty standard Emmons pedals 4-8, with A=>Bb on RKL and C=>B on RKR.
What I believe to be the original case is in good shape. Like the guitar, not perfect, but physically solid and quite good cosmetically, but not perfect.
This is something like the 8th Emmons push-pull I've tried. I keep on trying, but I keep on concluding that I'm just not a push-pull guy. They sound great, most of them have played well - this one does - but the raise-overide-lower, lack of split tuning, and IMO, the higher learning curve to get solid at setups and repairs keeps on pushing me back to my all-pull guitars. Anyway - pictures:
Last edited by Dave Mudgett on 22 Sep 2022 6:55 am; edited 4 times in total |
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Damir Besic
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Nashville,TN.
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Dave Mudgett
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Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 23 Jul 2022 2:29 am
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| At show - will update if I still have it when I get home. |
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Tomas Enguidanos
From:
California, USA
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Posted 23 Jul 2022 4:11 am Buyer in CA
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| That is mighty tempting. I love my pp. but this is beautiful. If you think about shipping it I would be interested |
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Dave Mudgett
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Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 27 Jul 2022 10:39 pm
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| I still have this Emmons. Lots of lookers at the show, but not a lot of steel players. |
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Jim Fogarty
From:
Phila, Pa, USA
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Posted 28 Jul 2022 11:09 am
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Will you take payments, Dave? Say.....$34 a month for a 100 months?!?!
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Marty Neer
From:
Kansas, USA
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Posted 28 Jul 2022 12:20 pm Emmons p/p
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| PM sent. Thanks. Marty |
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