Great Push-Pull Mechanic in So. Calif?

Cliff Kane · Post by **Cliff Kane** » 6 May 2006 2:58 pm

I've got the Emmons home.....it's all here as far as I can tell, and it's a lovely beast. It is definitely a different animal than my LDG. It’s like going from a Les Paul with light low action to a Telecaster with high action and heavy strings. The tone is really different from the LDG, too: the LDG is much brighter, but the Emmons has a fat low-mid thunk and twang that is really warm and really present, too. The out-put of the Emmons’s pickups are noticeably lower than the LDG’s, so perhaps a rewind is in order. I would like to take this guitar to a very good tech who really knows push-pulls, a great push-pull mechanic. The guitar definitely needs a good going over, and I would like to lighten the feel of the pedals. Some of the pedals are way stiffer than others. I don’t think anyone has serviced the guitar in long time. I live in southern California. Is there a great “push-pull mechanic” down here (I know there are some great pedal steel techs here, but I’m looking for someone who really knows push-pulls), or should I get ready to ship it to Tennessee?

Thanks very much (again!) for the help!
Cliff

Skip Edwards · Post by **Skip Edwards** » 6 May 2006 3:12 pm

Cliff, have you contacted Chris Allen Burke?

Henry Nagle · Post by **Henry Nagle** » 6 May 2006 3:55 pm

I shipped mine to Tommy Cass and he did a great job. I suspect Bobby Bowman does fine work. I know him to be a very nice guy. If you're going to have it rebuilt then I definitly recommend shipping it to one of those guys. If you just want to have it looked at to see what it needs, I've heard that Jim Palenscar in San Diego knows them pretty well.

Damir Besic · Post by **Damir Besic** » 6 May 2006 4:50 pm

<SMALL>The tone is really different from the LDG, too: the LDG is much brighter, but the Emmons has a fat low-mid thunk and twang that is really warm and really present, too. </SMALL>

how interesting,my experience with p/p and LDG is complitly other way around,he he

my push pulls always have bright and crystal clear tone when LDG has deep and strong clean wooden tone

however,you have the best of the two worlds, LDG kicks butt and so does p/p

congratulation on great instruments

Db

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Jim Walker · Post by **Jim Walker** » 6 May 2006 7:11 pm

You might want to contact Larry Petree in Bakersfield and ask him about working on your axe, He worked on an Emmons for me once, He does good work.

lpetree@bak.rr.com

Cliff Kane · Post by **Cliff Kane** » 6 May 2006 8:56 pm

Thanks, guys.

Db: it's very cool having both of these guitars side by side. I think they really compliment each other. I got rid of my Tele a while ago and have been jonesing for another Tele, but this Emmons is fixing that. It has highs in the tone, but it’s also got a ballsy mid-range thunk and punch that the LDG doesn’t have. I’ve never had a steel guitar with a C6 neck before, and I am totally digging the big fat strings. I really can’t play the C6 neck at all, but I’ve been zoning out on Luther’s “Folsom Prison” lick and “Peter Gunn” on those big fat C, F, A strings.