Be wary when buying a push-pull Emmons from sources that don’t offer a money-back guarantee or from anyone who says they don’t know much about it because they use that as an excuse if you find out that it’s not all you thought it was.
This means that the Emmons push-pull is going to be more expensive in the immediate future. Tip 3: The Emmons factory has just disposed of all the Emmons original push-pull parts.
Any Sho-Bud that I sell will be in incredible shape and ready to go for many years, regardless of how I purchased them. This means that Sho-Bud is now a true orphan which means the bad ones are worth less and the good ones are worth more. Fender has stated they have no interest in doing anything with Sho-Bud, either building, selling or providing parts. As most of you know, Sho-Bud was just purchased in a package deal by Fender Guitar Company. This of course, only applies to the older classics and not new guitars such as GFI or Emmons. Homemade knee levers and homemade will destroy the value of what you started with. Before you buy a steel guitar, make sure it is what you want configuration wise. By now, all the original parts have been used up making these modern configuration 4 and 5 knee lever guitars. Many Sho-Buds were built from ’70 to ’74 with only two knee levers. Tip 2: I see many Sho-Bud and ZB guitars being bought at low prices by customers that think they can quickly, easily and cheaply add two more knee levers. I feel Ebay is a wonderful place to sell steel guitars but a horrible place to buy them. The true value of these guitars was $150 – $200. These were the very common variety, some with parts missing and most not in very good shape. For instance, at Christmas time there were several Sho-Bud Mavericks go on Ebay for $600 – $850. Most of the guitars were only worth a third of what was paid for them. Several guitars have parts missing which are no longer available and have been stripped to make other guitars ususable.Īfter hearing from so many dissatisfied Ebay customers, I feel it is my duty to let the steel guitar buying public know the woes of Ebay.
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Most of the guitars are total disasters with such things wrong as cracked bodies which affects tuning cabinet drop, bad pickups that sound awful or no ohm reading, tuning keys that are stripped and sometimes serious problems that can’t be fixed. The Emmons #3 that Mike Cass is restoring is the only Emmons I know of that is still "Stereo." So many were changed to single coils.Tip 1: I’ve been contacted by many people who have purchased steel guitars on Ebay and called me to get the guitars serviced, fixed and made playable. Here Buddy Emmons is promoting the Stereo Emmons, but the guitar he is playing has non-Stereo single coils. Here is a photo from the 1964 Emmons brochure. I have learned a lot about very early Emmons guitars by studying my own collection, but I really appreciate Mike Cass and Herb Steiner for showing me the way. The single coil you see is a quarter inch taller than the "normal" Emmons single coil.
It is not mounted to the neck as on every Emmons guitar after #3, I think. That is a tall single coil mounted directly to the cabinet. That Emmons of mine I posted photos of - Emmons #2 - is no longer Stereo. Here's a post from you noting that the pickup on Emmons #2 is is a "tall single coil mounted directly to the cabinet": This is probably the thread I saw before.