#Emmons steel guitar sales serial numbers#
#Emmons steel guitar sales serial number#

I remember going into the Sho-Bud factory one day and seeing a new keyhead design and asking David why heвЂ™s changing the keyhead design. Sho-Bud was very good about coming up with different changes to the bodies, mechanisms, keyheads etc. There was a standard model, but there were many experimental units. Being a dealer in Nashville, Tennessee, I ran across these guitars on a regular basis.

#Emmons steel guitar sales serial number#

I know of a bolt on mechanism guitar that was built and owned by a prominent Texas player, sent back to the factory, converted to a split neck guitar and then later on restored to a wrap-around guitar so it would come closer to matching the serial number of that era.ДЇolks that are trying to pinpoint exact building facts like they would on a mass produced automobile really are facing a difficult task as the history of these guitars is very muddied. Many times when a customer would ask for a specific feature to be built into their own personal guitar, Ron would do it and quite often this guitar would end up on the market, sold to an owner that thought he had just a standard guitar from the factory. I remember Ron Lashley building a double ten keyless guitar with both necks the same level. There were even many end castings that were made with no numbers at all.ДЄs far as experimental Emmons guitars go, there were plenty of them and they were a combination of any parts that were available, not necessarily part of any grand design. They would cast several years worth of end castings at the same time and they were not necessarily used in order, they just grabbed whatever was within reach.

#Emmons steel guitar sales serial numbers#

The end castings for the push pull guitars were stamped with serial numbers when they were cast and then stacked up on a shelf in the assembly shop. I see people on the forum trying to figure out what year their Fingertip was made because of certain features one individual may have on his guitar and letting everybody know what year he bought it, but because features were added or subtracted at any given time, this doesnвЂ™t necessarily indentify the year.Д®mmons guitars can be even more confusing to identify. So here we have three different guitars being built by Sho-Bud at the same time. Most Baldwin guitars that Sho-Bud built were built from вЂ™66 to вЂ™69, and were built alongside some Permanent guitars and almost all of the Fingertip guitars. Of course, some big basic changes will help identify the decade, like most Permanent guitars were built before вЂ™64, but not all of them. This is a frustrating thing to try to do because design changes happened as they were figured out and not because the year changed. People still today look at an old Sho-Bud and try to figure out what year it is by certain features on the guitar. The world of steel guitar up until about 12 to 15 years ago was very fluid when it came to designing and building new steel guitar models.