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Steel players do it without fretting

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http://homepage.tinet.ie/~basilhenriques/

http://www.stax-a-trax.com/

No, that decal is gone - it's about as clean as a new guitar actually. Were you the original first owner of this beauty ?

As for Buddy, my favorite steel-instrumental is Londonderry Air/Danny Boy BE-style, but I'd NEVER dare to play it in public

BTW I presently have two fatbacks in the house, and I love both of them !!

Ole

P.S. : Ooohhh my God, don't ever let my wife see this !

[This message was edited by Ole Dantoft on 21 September 2001 at 09:03 AM.]

I enjoy old movies and nostaglia and I think you will enjoy this as well.

Thanks to bOb for keeping these in the"archives" wow did I say all that??

This is for new members and those who may have missed the "good times".

It makes me feel bad when I see members who are no longer with us,but at least we have these to remember them by.

It was obvious what these metal straps were for. Wide arpons on a PSG hanging in mid air have nothing to make them rigid. These metal straps was THE answer for that. Pulling strings on a PSG, creates a lot of stress on the cabinet and aprons play a role here. So the straps are important IMO.

8 years later, I gutted the guitar; corrected some factory "goofs"; and tried to install 9 more knee levers; and one more pedal. Much to my consternation, the metal staps got in the way of several of the new knee levers.

Since I rarely follow the policy of "live for the moment", I walked away from the partially assembled guitar and studied it for days and days, trying to figure away to "have my cake and eat it too!". In a word, "them straps were on there, and they are going to STAY there unless there is NO way around it!"

Months went by. I was about ready to do away with the straps, rationlizing "most other make guitars had never used them". Then has happened sooo much in my life, Jesus guided me to the Emmons booth at ISGC, and they had newer Emmons (of course) and they had the rear apron cut away. BUT they had a single strap going from front to back. But it was bent (offset) to account for the difference in heights of the two aprons.

Praise Jesus, THAT was the answer. So even though my guitar was designed for level straps, I took some 1" wide x 1'8" thick bar steel and bent them in the middle making and offset about 1/2" creating a step down towards the back. And installed them under the guitar. This then solved my knee lever problems. And since the straps were steel, the bend did not take anything away from the rigidity. This I liked. I didn't flock them, But I did paint them flat black. Looked great.

Interesting side bit about this guitar. I did NOT like the tone of the guitar from day one. NEVER did like it. So naturally I scoffed at all the P/P hooplah; even remarking negatively on this forum in the early days concerning it.

But about 3 yrs before I started posting, my friend in Atlanta, (Mac Atcheson) had loaned me a set of 19K PU's to try and get a better sound. Mine came with 14.5K. But I procrastinated and never got around to putting them in. "Them PU's aint gonna make that sound any better!"

Then I decided to sell the "stupid" guitar; after I got my LeGrande. When I got a firm bid on it, I thought, "This is not right, the sound of this Emmons' is NOT what this buyer is probably expecting. And this is NOT the Christian thing to do".

So I remembered those 19K PU's that Mac had loaned me. (I know, it takes me a while , but Mac is the last soul on this earth to ever care. He is a prince of a man). So I dug them out and replaced them on the 69 P/P.

I wanted to cry. THERE was the sound. THERE it was. Could NOT believe it. Oh how I wanted to back out of the deal. But it was too late. I would not go back on a firm bid. So I gave Mac the 14.5K's (which he WANTED all along) and shipped the guitar to a lucky buyer. I got 1600 dollars for it.

A '69 Emmons' with 10 pedals, 11 knee levers, fat back WITH two straps and a sound to die for. And never played out of my house!

But ya know what. Our Lord said,

"To whom much is given, much shall be required". So I shipped it an never looked back. And the blessings flowed even more,

Praise His holy name,

carl

[This message was edited by C Dixon on 23 February 2003 at 10:15 AM.]

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It had two strips like Bobbe talked about. They ran from the front to the rear aprons and were of course black flocked.
It was obvious what these metal straps were for. Wide arpons on a PSG hanging in mid air have nothing to make them rigid. These metal straps was THE answer for that. Pulling strings on a PSG, creates a lot of stress on the cabinet and aprons play a role here. So the straps are important IMO.

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[This message was edited by Jody Carver on 23 February 2003 at 08:18 PM.]

While it is true the Emmons' P/P has little to no cabinet drop; because of the way its changer works (IE, the raise finger stop being the wood body causes the finger to act as a "counterforce" ass'y like on the LeGrande III). a rigid front and rear apron DOES aid in helping to minimize any cabinet flexing.

Here is why. JUST like a piece of angle iron has been used for 100's of years as longitudinal strength in a myriad of construction applications, SO does the front and rear aprons of a PSG cabinet, UNLESS those aprons are permitted to bow in our outwards.

On the Emmons' they tend to bow outward, on my Excel they bow inward. Incidently, Excel is now installing a metal strap in the middle of the guitar from front to back. And SO am I! He does one more thing.

On Excel superB models, there is a tall 1/4" thick aluminum rail that runs the entire length of the guitar; in the center for rigidity and center crossrod support. This new strap is screwed to this rail; as well as the front and rear aprons.

In summation. ANY thing one can do to help minimize pulling stress is an advantage over not doing it on a PSG. It is estimated that each string exerts about 30 lbs of stress.

Times 20 (D-10) that is a whopping 600 lbs! Then when a pedal is pressed you must multiply all raise pullers by 30 lbs. So it is obvious that a strap (keeping the aprons from bowing; or angle iron, etc is much superior than not having them.

carl

[This message was edited by C Dixon on 23 February 2003 at 11:06 AM.]