How many S-12 Emmons p/p were built?

SveinungL · Post by **SveinungL** » 10 May 2011 1:42 pm

Hi.
I wonder if anyone know how many S-12s that were made by Emmons? And how they were numbered (to date them)?

I have two guitars serials #131 and #185. The earliest is black with wide pedals and the later is a rosewood with narrow type pedals.

I'm now in the progress of rebuilding them and making them loaded U-12s. A funny and time consuming project....

Regards - Sveinung in Norway.

Ken Metcalf · Post by **Ken Metcalf** » 10 May 2011 3:28 pm

Here is a 5x7 U-12
Set up with the help of Bobby Bowman.
He is the guy to set up a Push Pull ! !

Lee Baucum · Post by **Lee Baucum** » 10 May 2011 5:31 pm

I used to have one. ---> Click Here

Waisznor · Post by **Waisznor** » 11 May 2011 3:18 am

SveinungL,

it´s too much work with two U12; You should sell one to me

Regards
Horst

Ken Metcalf · Post by **Ken Metcalf** » 11 May 2011 4:39 am

The one I have is # 6746
Must of made a lot of them..

Jim Palenscar · Post by **Jim Palenscar** » 11 May 2011 6:39 am

I have 2 of them at the shop- one is an SD12- both are black.

SveinungL · Post by **SveinungL** » 11 May 2011 6:45 am

Horst: No one for sale sorry

Jim Eaton · Post by **Jim Eaton** » 13 May 2011 12:12 pm

Here is my S-12 PP.

JE:-)>

Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 13 May 2011 1:33 pm

I had an S-12, Serial no. 158.
What's interesting about this guitar is that it started out as a "Banshee".
There was a fellow in New Jersey that would take an Emmons and modify it: put a different pickup on it with lots of coil taps, extra controls and etc.
I bought the guitar off of e-bay and restored it back to an original Emmons.

Bob Hoffnar · Post by **Bob Hoffnar** » 13 May 2011 1:44 pm

I had a U12 Rosewood PP Bowman set up for me. It had Legrand pedals and sounded fantastic. Played real easy and nice too.

Pete Burak · Post by **Pete Burak** » 14 May 2011 7:31 am

I've got one. Black PP, single body, 7x5.
Bought in summer '82.
If anyone is in the Portland Oregon area and wants to check it out, let me know.

I had it a SGN one day a few years back:

James Quackenbush · Post by **James Quackenbush** » 20 May 2011 2:29 pm

I have an SD-12 and have NEVER seen an SD-12 that did not have the holes drilled on the end plate like a D-12 ......Has anyone seen an SD-12 with only one set of holes for one neck drilled ? .......Did they even make them ? ....Jim

Mike Wheeler · Post by **Mike Wheeler** » 20 May 2011 4:46 pm

I have a rosewood S12U, 7+5 that I bought last year. Great little guitar. I'm saving my pennies and plan to send it to Mr. Cass for a good going over and polish.

It's an amazing little tone monster.

b0b · Post by **b0b** » 20 May 2011 5:06 pm

I bought one new in 1978. I don't remember the serial number though.

Olli Haavisto · Post by **Olli Haavisto** » 20 May 2011 10:55 pm

b0b wrote:I bought one new in 1978. I don't remember the serial number though.

Doesn`t that worry you, B0b ?

Ron Davis · Post by **Ron Davis** » 21 May 2011 6:50 am

I have one in the 6xxx's.
I LOVE it.

Ron Davis · Post by **Ron Davis** » 21 May 2011 6:51 am

Olli Haavisto wrote:
b0b wrote:I bought one new in 1978. I don't remember the serial number though.
Doesn`t that worry you, B0b ?

I can relate...

b0b · Post by **b0b** » 21 May 2011 8:55 am

I saw mine in the front window of Tall Toad Music a month or two ago. It's really beat up and (IMHO) overpriced. Somebody worked it pretty hard after I had it.

Waisznor · Post by **Waisznor** » 13 Oct 2011 8:51 am

I just got one with (7+6). Serial-Nr. 160

Tom Wolverton · Post by **Tom Wolverton** » 13 Oct 2011 10:19 am

Bob, I saw that Emmons in Petaluma at the end of July. Yes, beat up and expensive. Did you notice the 9 volt battery strapped into the undercarraige? What's that for?

Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 13 Oct 2011 10:50 am

Tom,
I put an "active" pickup on a Sho~Bud some years ago and that required a 9 volt battery. An excellent sounding pickup, by the way.
I traded it to Bobbe and don't know what he did with it after that.

b0b · Post by **b0b** » 13 Oct 2011 12:40 pm

Tom Wolverton wrote:Bob, I saw that Emmons in Petaluma at the end of July. Yes, beat up and expensive. Did you notice the 9 volt battery strapped into the undercarraige? What's that for?

The battery was for the LEDs that I embedded in the wood neck to light up the centers of the atomic fret markers.