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Kenny Martin, of the Marshall Tucker Band and a close personal friend. Thanks for a GREAT JOB my friend!!Īnother Steel Guitar East guitar.

If you live anywhere in the Southeast, Billy is the guy you want working on your guitar. It has been an awesome sounding AND playing guitar. He set up the LeGrand II that I play with the Oak Ridge Boys. Jerry Williford with his new Emmons SD10.Īn Emmons PP restoration we did for Butch Dixon of Alabama, a Nashville player.īilly is not only a wonderful gentleman to do business with, he is one of the finest builders and refurbishers in the business. If you go to SGE, you will not be disappointed! This flat back design also was a little easier and less expensive to produce. Steel cross straps and anti-bowing straps were installed to keep this from happening. And Roger is a great machinist who can make any part that's needed. Emmons was having a problem sense its inception with the body bowing out, and the cross shafts exiting the bottom of the guitar. Billy is an exceptionally skilled mechanic and troubleshooter who is an expert in building, restoring, adjusting and maintaining pedal steel guitars. When I think of Steel Guitar East, I think of work done precisely and competently, along with excellent customer service. But remember you will be having to tune every single note with the bar and even open string there are 824 strings to tune and each pedal or knee lever has. Steel Guitar East is a Live Steel Strings dealer. Clyde MattocksĪ complete restoration, this guitar belonged toīob Hempker when he played with Loretta Lynn. When it comes to repairing and setting up this contraption we all love, Billy Knowles, makes METICULOUS an art form.

Tommy White with his restored and modernized Johnny Cox with his completely restored PP.Īllyn Love playing his Emmons in the shop. Ricky Hagan with his very early Emmons bolt on. Mike Johnson with his Steel Guitar East completely restored Emmons Legrande II. Your guitar will play like a dream when we're finished with it! In addition to restorations, we do set-ups, copedent changes and knee lever additions. We can take an old beat up guitar and, once we have restored it, it will look like it did the day it left the factory. I would think it is an early model, but Im more of a lap steel guy. Typically pedal steels of this type have anywhere from one to four or more knee levers. This is sort of unusual in that it has six pedals, but no knee levers. We also have available a tunable half stop that is tunable from under the guitar and also you can also adjust the tension as to how hard you want the half stop to feel.We always have new guitars on order and have a selection of used guitars in stock. It was made by Sho-Bud of Nashville, TN (a collaboration between Shot Jackson and Buddy Emmons). If properly setup it will all be in tune at this time. As the 9th string engages making contact with the changer lowering lever this will apply extra pressure and become the half stop feel for the 2nd string. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the date listed.) Filing date Publication date Application filed by Emmons Guitar Co Inc filed Critical. I next temper tune the 9th string to C# with 6th string having the B pedal down. Emmons Guitar Co Inc Priority date (The priority date is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Make sure that the pulling rods are in the same holes in the bell crank and the changer (this should be the 5th hole, the one that is the furthest from the guitar body) I temper tune the open E9th tuning first and then tune with the pedals down. To make this work properly use the following method. IMPORTANT: IF the raise is NOT the maximum raise, (IE, 4th string F lever raise. Tune the lowers with the 'lower' allen screw at the end plate. Tune the non engaged raise with the 'raise' allen screw at the end plate.

The first of course is for the 2nd string half stop and the second is for the D to C# change on the 9th string. On an Emmons' P/P, the following will work whether it be pedal or knee lever: 1.

When assembling new guitars this is the procedure we use when setting up a new guitar for the 2nd string half stop.