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Topic: Original Emmons/Sho-Bud pricing |
Ross Shafer
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Petaluma, California
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Posted 19 Dec 2016 8:49 am |
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Happy Hot Dang Holidays!
Can anyone tell me what the retail price for a new top of the line Emmons PP S10 was "back in the day"? How 'bout a Sho-Bud LDG?
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forrest klott
From:
Grand Rapids Mi USA
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Posted 19 Dec 2016 9:41 am
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| My mom was married to a steel player in the '60's and he got an Emmons D10 in late '65 or some time in '66. We have one photo of him playing it at a stage show and I can tell it had four knee levers but not whether it was a Wrap or a bolt-on. I don't recall whether it was the small decal or the larger one either. She said it was $1000.00 from a music store here in town. Wish I knew the Serial #, would be interesting to see if it was still out there. I know you'd asked about S10's, but thought I'd share the info anyways. May or may not be accurate 100%. |
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Dave Diehl
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Mechanicsville, MD, USA
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Posted 19 Dec 2016 9:46 am
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| I had an S10 Push Pull not black but mica and it originally cost me around $800. Don't recall exactly. |
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Lane Gray
From:
Topeka, KS
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Posted 19 Dec 2016 10:35 am
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My 81 or 82 D10 Emmons had a store price tag of $1740 in 1982
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2 pedal steels, a lapStrat, and an 8-string Dobro (and 3 ukes)
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Steven Paris
From:
Los Angeles
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Posted 19 Dec 2016 10:36 am
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I seem to recall seeing a catalog from the 70's that showed an Emmons 3x4 S10 for an MSRP of $1495.
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Stu Schulman
From:
Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 19 Dec 2016 11:51 am
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Ross,I believe that I owned the first Sho-Bud Lloyd Green guitar in Austin Texas in 1973...i bought it at Straight Music for a bout$1350.00!
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Steeltronics Z-pickup,Desert Rose S-10 4+5,Desert Rose Keyless S-10 3+5... Mullen G2 S-10 3+5,Telonics 206 pickups,Telonics volume pedal.,Blanton SD -10,Emmons GS_10...Zirctone bar,Bill Groner Bar...any amp that isn't broken.Steel Seat.Com seats...Licking paint chips off of Chinese Toys since 1952. |
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Ian Worley
From:
Sacramento, CA
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Posted 19 Dec 2016 12:20 pm
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Jerry Overstreet
From:
Louisville Ky
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Posted 19 Dec 2016 12:24 pm
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I'll look around. I used to get Emmons catalogs all the time back in the 80's, early 90's. The prices were always list which was a lot more than you would actually pay for one. Ridiculously high list prices.
I may still have some around in my "files"...read junk box  |
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Skip Edwards
From:
LA,CA
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Posted 19 Dec 2016 1:59 pm
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| I think an Emmons D10 was either $1495 or $1595 in the early '70's brochure...I've still got it around somewhere. |
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Herb Steiner
From:
Spicewood TX 78669
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Posted 19 Dec 2016 2:10 pm
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From my 1965 Emmons brochure:
D-10, 8 pedals, legs, case and foot volume... $995
S-10, 6 pedals, legs, case and foot volume... $595
Additional pedals... 72.50 each
Custom knee levers... 69.50 each
Emmons stainless solid bar... 5.95
Emmons hollow stainless bar... 9.95
Steel guitar capo... 11.50
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Son, we live in a world with walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with steel guitars. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinberg? |
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Ross Shafer
From:
Petaluma, California
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Posted 19 Dec 2016 2:15 pm
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| Great info, thanks everybody! |
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Dyke Corson
From:
Fairmount, IL USA
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Posted 19 Dec 2016 8:29 pm
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| My 66 D10 Bolt On (no knee levers) had the original receipt in the case: $895 |
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Steven Paris
From:
Los Angeles
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Posted 19 Dec 2016 9:13 pm
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1966 $895 = 2016 $6,667
WOW!!
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Ian Worley
From:
Sacramento, CA
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Posted 19 Dec 2016 9:14 pm
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| Herb Steiner wrote: |
| From my 1965 Emmons brochure:... |
Any chance you could post an image of that brochure Herb? I've love to see it. |
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Ron Funk
From:
Ballwin, Missouri
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Posted 19 Dec 2016 10:12 pm
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Sold to Atkinson Music, St Louis
Invoice No 2638 Bolt-On, August 7, 1967
DUAL/TEN EMMONS PEDAL STEEL GUITAR, Mod D10.....$650
(No Knee Levers)
2 EA DUAL COIL PICKUPS @ $12.50/EA.........................$25
TOTAL.....................................................................$675 |
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 20 Dec 2016 12:28 pm
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1972 Shobud D-10, from West Allis Music outside Milwaukee. $1,200.
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Dr. Z Surgical Steel amp, amazing!
"74 Bud S-10 3&6
'73 Bud S-10 3&5(under construction)
'63 Fingertip S-10, at James awaiting 6 knees
'57 Strat, LP Blue
'91 Tele with 60's Maple neck
Dozen more guitars!
Dozens of amps, but SF Quad reverb, Rick Johnson cabs. JBL 15, '64 Vibroverb for at home.
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Ken Pippus
From:
Langford, BC, Canada
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Posted 20 Dec 2016 1:28 pm
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| Just in case anybody forgets, you could buy a pretty nice car for $1200 in 1972. |
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 20 Dec 2016 1:35 pm
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Might not have been list price either! I'd bought other stuff from Ralph Henzel(sp?) at West Allis Music. Ralph was a well-known steel player back then, and earlier.
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Dr. Z Surgical Steel amp, amazing!
"74 Bud S-10 3&6
'73 Bud S-10 3&5(under construction)
'63 Fingertip S-10, at James awaiting 6 knees
'57 Strat, LP Blue
'91 Tele with 60's Maple neck
Dozen more guitars!
Dozens of amps, but SF Quad reverb, Rick Johnson cabs. JBL 15, '64 Vibroverb for at home.
'52 and '56 Pro Amps |
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Henry Matthews
From:
Texarkana, Ark USA
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Posted 20 Dec 2016 2:10 pm
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In, 1967, if you made minimum wage at $1.40 per hour, you would have to work 482 hours for the price of that D-10 Emmons guitar. Today you would have to work almost 700 hours to buy the same guitar. That's assuming the guitar is around $5000 new today which is really an under estimate if they were still being made.
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Henry Matthews
D-10 Magnum, 8 &5, dark rose color
D-10 1974 Emmons cut tail, fat back,rosewood, 8&5
Nashville 112 amp, Fishman Loudbox Performer amp, Hilton pedal, Goodrich pedal,BJS bar, Kyser picks, Live steel Strings. No effects, doodads or stomp boxes. |
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Ron Funk
From:
Ballwin, Missouri
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Posted 20 Dec 2016 3:17 pm
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Henry
In 1979 when I wanted to buy my first Emmons D10, I went to the bank for a loan. You should have seen the guy's face when he said "You want a loan for what?"
Loan obtained - had to play at least 2 gigs a month to make the payments.
Still have the Rosewood D10. |
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Steven Paris
From:
Los Angeles
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Posted 20 Dec 2016 4:14 pm
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| Ron Funk wrote: |
Henry
In 1979 when I wanted to buy my first Emmons D10, I went to the bank for a loan. You should have seen the guy's face when he said "You want a loan for what?"
Loan obtained - had to play at least 2 gigs a month to make the payments.
Still have the Rosewood D10. |
What did the Emmons D-10 cost you?
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Jerry Warner
From:
Charleston, West Virginia, USA
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Posted 20 Dec 2016 5:32 pm emmons
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| I bought two d10 emmons no knees in 1967 for 680.00 ea. black. I know where one is out in Minn. |
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Chris Schlotzhauer
From:
Colleyville, Tx. USA
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Posted 20 Dec 2016 9:28 pm
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| My very first steel was a new LDG....bought it at C&S Music Ft. Worth for $800 |
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Lyle Clary
From:
Decatur, Illinois, KC9VCB
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Posted 21 Dec 2016 6:17 pm
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To put other brands in perspective I bought a brand new 1969 ZB Custom D10 with 8 and 2 for $850. Still have it.
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2006 Zum D10 8x8,1969 ZB Custom D10,
10 3x4 Peavey Nashville 112 Peavey LTD 400 2014 Zum Encore Wood Grain 4x5 Stage One pot pedal |
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Frank Freniere
From:
The First Coast
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Posted 22 Dec 2016 4:54 am
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| John Billings wrote: |
| Might not have been list price either! I'd bought other stuff from Ralph Henzel(sp?) at West Allis Music. Ralph was a well-known steel player back then, and earlier. |
Ralph HanzeI. I bought a used MSA S-10 and a new Emmons D-10 from Ralph in the early '80's. |
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