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Topic: Wonder What Happened to my old Basketweave? |
Jerry Overstreet
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Louisville Ky
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Posted 28 Mar 2021 5:12 pm |
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Curiosity of course. I do not know the serial number nor the build year, so that's probably going to be a killer.
I bought a used Emmons P/P basketweave from an individual here in Louisville about 1982 or so. It was a D10 with 10 pedals and 6 knees factory Emmons set up. I put 705's in both necks. When I started Universals in 1990, I sold the guitar and original Emmons pickups to Dave Haynes here in Louisville. I'm sure he sold it for a nice profit as I sold it cheap. Dave has since passed on and I never thought to ask him about it prior. Someone else told me they thought he sold it to someone in Nashville.
I played it for about 10 yrs. and often wonder what happened to it.
It was nothing special except for the basketweave finish. It was a cuttail with dark brown knees, button style Klusons and no fat back. Unique finish...not too many of them around.
I guess I didn't know what I had at the time, how rare they were and how desirable they would come to be. At the time, I thought that mica was sorta funky.
If you know anything about it, I'd enjoy knowing where it ended up. |
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Jack Hanson
From:
San Luis Valley, USA
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Posted 28 Mar 2021 5:54 pm
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Russ Pahl also played a basketweave back in the previous century:
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Jerry Overstreet
From:
Louisville Ky
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Posted 28 Mar 2021 6:32 pm
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Rather nondescript instrument save for the mica. I had hair....and a waistline... |
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Bo Borland
From:
South Jersey -
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Posted 1 Apr 2021 8:24 am
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| I understand there were a very limited number of them made.. I saw Russ Hicks playing one and recently saw a photo of one in a collection |
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Jerry Overstreet
From:
Louisville Ky
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Posted 25 Aug 2021 8:29 am
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| Still curious. I know that Cookie Jones played a basket weave D10 and he used lots of pedals and knees. I saw some pics of him at the NTSGA playing it. Wondering if this is the one he played around Nashville in the 90s, early 00s? |
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Johnny Jones
From:
Benton, Kentucky USA
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Posted 25 Aug 2021 3:12 pm Basketweave Emmons
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| Jerry,Cookie's basketweave was a Lashley Legrande.It had a matte black top,and basketweave front and rear aprons.Wonder where it is. |
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Jerry Overstreet
From:
Louisville Ky
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Posted 25 Aug 2021 3:16 pm Re: Basketweave Emmons
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| Johnny Jones wrote: |
| Jerry,Cookie's basketweave was a Lashley Legrande.It had a matte black top,and basketweave front and rear aprons.Wonder where it is. |
OK. I thought he played a P/P basketweave also. I saw him play the LeGrande down on Broadway a time or two but never got close enough to see the deck. |
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Bill Bassett
From:
Papamoa New Zealand
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Posted 20 Sep 2021 3:38 pm Basketweave
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| There is a single 12 basket weave for sale in Australia at the moment. |
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Mark van Allen
From:
Watkinsville, Ga. USA
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Johnie King
From:
Tennessee, USA
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Posted 7 Nov 2021 6:05 pm
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Here's my Basket Weave
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