New Mullen is a Beauty!

Jory Simmons · Post by **Jory Simmons** » 28 Dec 2007 9:03 am

Had to do this...after a 5 month wait its finally here!

Calvin Walley · Post by **Calvin Walley** » 28 Dec 2007 9:16 am

way to go ...its a beauty

Rick Kreuziger · Post by **Rick Kreuziger** » 28 Dec 2007 9:44 am

Merry Christmas Jory?

Very nice...

Rick

Jory Simmons · Post by **Jory Simmons** » 28 Dec 2007 12:32 pm

BTW...It has 4 pedals and 5 knees. Pedal 4 is the Franklin change....Was so looking forward to my Bands three gigs this week end...but they all got cancelled cause our Drummer/ Lead singer had to go to the Hospital for emergency eye surgery! Anyone in the chgo/milw area need a player this week-end??????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JD

Carl Williams · Post by **Carl Williams** » 28 Dec 2007 12:48 pm

Jory,
Great looking Mullen and we know you're very proud...give us a few details about what you like about it such as feel, tone, etc. What a way to start the New Year off

Carl

Jory Simmons · Post by **Jory Simmons** » 28 Dec 2007 12:57 pm

Well I've been playin My Emmons p/p (1981 Original owner) since '81. Over the last year I bought and sold A Rains,and a Fessy. Both were cheaply built ( Just My Opinion) and kinda light and noisy. I love my p/p, but I'll be playing this Mullen and probably will keep it. Anyway I Digress......
ITs beautiful! Well built....tight, smooth. Quality all the way! Wallace TT sounds great! Actually its my second Mullen...I had a Black Pre RP a few years ago and sold it 'cause I needed Money. Big mistake I discovered later. I was going to order an Emmons SD10. but after seeing a few...even THEY did not compare to the craftsmanship of the Mullen.

Lee Baucum · Post by **Lee Baucum** » 28 Dec 2007 7:16 pm

Welcome back into the Mullen family! That's a pretty guitar. In the picture of the underside of the guitar, what is that device that is at the very bottom of the picture? It looks like a rod going through a shock spring, like on an Emmons push/pull.

Jory Simmons · Post by **Jory Simmons** » 28 Dec 2007 8:05 pm

Yeah...cool,eh? You see when I had my p/p built in 1981. I wanted 1/2-stop tuners on 2 and 6 Lowers. So thats what these are. 1/2 stops on string six,and string two...then I push a little more and they lower the whole step.Del came up with this design for me! and they work great! Thanks Mr Mullen!

Jory Simmons · Post by **Jory Simmons** » 28 Dec 2007 8:08 pm

ooops!!!!!

Lee Baucum · Post by **Lee Baucum** » 28 Dec 2007 8:12 pm

Thanks, Jory. Maybe you could post some more pictures of that feature. Are the half-stops tunable? For each string?

Al Marcus · Post by **Al Marcus** » 28 Dec 2007 8:29 pm

Lee-it looks like to me it has the old Sho-Bud barrell tuners and they can be independently adjusted. Nice setup, great undercarriage ,
High quality guitar. one of mine is a wood lacquer S12. Pre-Royal. I like it...al.

:):)

Lee Baucum · Post by **Lee Baucum** » 28 Dec 2007 8:49 pm

I see now. You turn the smooth barrels to tune the half-stops. I was looking for knurled tuners, like the Emmons guitars had.

Perry Keeter · Post by **Perry Keeter** » 29 Dec 2007 1:07 am

WOW The wood grain looks awesome on that guitar. Congratulations

Louis Vallee · Post by **Louis Vallee** » 29 Dec 2007 3:45 am

Very nice guitar Jory!

I like this wood grain...

Jory Simmons · Post by **Jory Simmons** » 29 Dec 2007 6:04 am

What is cool is he has both the 2nd and 6th string 1/2 stop tuners on the same spring loaded rod. The longer part of the Barrel is the tuner....left one is for the 2nd string, and the right one is for the six string.

Mike Kowalik · Post by **Mike Kowalik** » 29 Dec 2007 6:08 am

Very nice looking guitar!!

Dick Wood · Post by **Dick Wood** » 29 Dec 2007 5:26 pm

I really like the color you chose. Very nice!

Pat Carlson · Post by **Pat Carlson** » 31 Dec 2007 7:40 am

Does it sound as good as it looks?

Jory Simmons · Post by **Jory Simmons** » 31 Dec 2007 11:18 am

I Will post something on youtube soon!
BTW..color is Plank Maple Mica.

James Leaman · Post by **James Leaman** » 31 Dec 2007 12:21 pm

Jory, nice axe! Hopefully we will hear it at the Dairyland in March. You are going I presume. We will have to meet when there.

Jim

Paul Wade · Post by **Paul Wade** » 31 Dec 2007 3:34 pm

oh, jory what a nice p.s.g. makes me remmber the one i bought from herby wallace in 1986 should have kept that black d-10

take care see you at the wisconsin jam...

p.w

Jory Simmons · Post by **Jory Simmons** » 1 Jan 2008 3:55 pm

You can hear the Mullen now on www.myspace.com/jorysimmons

John Cisco · Post by **John Cisco** » 1 Jan 2008 6:01 pm

That is purdy!!!

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