Emmons 60's Decal

[Tim Walker]

Looking for a decal for my bolt-on.

Thanks!

[Chris Lucker]

Please give a date/number, invoice number or D number, as Bolt-ons had three different style decals. In October 1964, some had STEREO decals. In 1965 they had decals with the STEREO cut out and after that, they had the bigger decal.

[Tim Walker]

Hi Chris,

The number is 2441. It has fully black pickups if that helps.

Cheers!

[Chris Lucker]

I can send you an earlier one if you cannot find the correct.
Do you have another number stamped on the endplate a little ways apart from the four digits? I ask because I have a guitar with the same invoice number, and a “3” a couple inches away, which just means there were at least three guitars sold on the same invoice.

[Tim Walker]

Thanks very much Chris! What decal should it have?
Should it be like this one on my cut-tail:

No, I don’t see another number.
Do you know when these guitars were made?
Cheers!

[Nick Reed]

I just recently put these new decals on both of my '66 bolt-on's. They're brighter and show up better than the old gun-metal gray decals that were on it. My old ones had flaked and deteriorated over the years. I personally like the looks of these new ones better.

[Tim Walker]

Cool Nick, Where did you get them from? Are they clear or black?
Cheers!

[Mark Shuda]

Kelsey O'Neal at Emmons has decals . He is a most gracious man and will help you with anything Emmons. You can contact him here on the Forum.

[Garry Vanderlinde]

Please give a date/number, invoice number or D number, as Bolt-ons had three different style decals. In October 1964, some had STEREO decals. In 1965 they had decals with the STEREO cut out and after that, they had the bigger decal.

Hi Chris, do you know anything about the Emmons plastic badges? I've got a P/P Emmons invoice #2255. It had a brown badge on the front apron when I bought it in 1982.
Herb Steiner noted that when a guitar was sent back to tje factory that they put these badges
on. Any info would be most welcomed!

[Chris Lucker]

Just like Herb said.

The brown badges I have seen are pot metal, not plastic. I have some.

The problem with replacing a badge with a decal is filling the holes. I have tried it twice. I used the black cry-whtever Crazy Gee you can buy from Stew Mac or Luthier's Mercantile for filling ebony boards. It takes a lot of drop fills and a lot of leveling, but the mica always gets overly polished from the flatter fire retardant (brown back)gloss mica that was used during decal time.

[Garry Vanderlinde]

Wouldn't a factory badge be worth more, or be more originally accurate, than an after market repro decal?
I'm not sure which one I'd rather have.

[Tim Walker]

I found a decal, big thanks to Wayne Brown!

[Chris Lucker]

Wouldn't a factory badge be worth more, or be more originally accurate, than an after market repro decal?
I'm not sure which one I'd rather have.

There were plenty of original decals available from Ron Sr and Ron Jr -- early as well as late decals. You just had to ask and give the info on the guitar so it could be matched with the records.