My 1978 Rare Emmons P/P Basket Weave

Charlie McVay · From: Pittsburgh, Pa. USA

Here's some pictures of one of my P/P Emmons guitars. According to Ron Sr. this was the last complete Basket Weave ever made; S/N 2469.

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Per Berner · From: Skovde, Sweden

I'm not convinced that black guitars sound better. But they do LOOK better! Winking

Skip Edwards · From: LA,CA

I think it's awesome...very cool.
I can just picture it being played thru a blue sparkle Kustom amp...
I've never seen a basketweave in person. Is the mica textured along the weaves, or flat?

Jerry Overstreet · From: Louisville Ky

I used to own one of these. Wasn't too crazy about the finish at the time. It collected a lot of dust due to the 3D texture of the mica. Yes, it actually looks like a weave.

It was a great sounding axe though and had 10 pedals and 6 knees. Vintage style tuners. Cuttail.

Of course now I'm suffering from seller's remorse.

Russ Tkac · Posted 6 Sep 2009 9:22 am

I always thought they looked cool. But, you have to play them in sandals and a straw hat. Smile

Roger Guyett · From: San Francisco, Ca.

...in the Tiki lounge with a Mai Tai

Very cool - I've never seen one of those before.

How many did they make like that? does anyone know? or if there are any other unusual finishes out there on the PPs...

Thanks for posting the pictures.

Jerry Erickson · From: Atlanta,IL 61723

I was pretty close to ordering that finish on a D12 that I ordered in 1978. I ended up getting a rosewood one instead.

Ernie Renn · From: Brainerd, Minnesota USA

It's 3D. Ron sent me a piece of it a while back.

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I scanned it to see about making a desktop background. It worked, but was such a optical illusion that I had to remove it. Winking

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Herb Steiner · From: Briarcliff TX 78669, pop. 2,064

They're rare birds. I've seen Charlie's guitar in person when he had it at ISGC many years back. I saw one other one in Los Angeles in the early 80's. There were only a very small number of these guitars made.

What knocked me out at ISGC this year is that Russ Hicks has a new Mullen G2 with this mica, that he got a small amount of from the Emmons Co. a while back. Made me laugh with delight when I saw the horn.
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Nathan Golub · From: Durham, NC

I went to the Emmons factory this past week and was struck by how many furniture stores & factories are in Burlington. Looks like Emmons had a ready supply of various mica patterns to choose from.

chas smith R.I.P. · From: Encino, CA, USA

ahhhh,easy on the eyes...

Charlie Moore · From: Deville, Louisiana, USA

Well i don't drink but if i did playing that guitar would tangle my eyes... thats a beauty Mr. Charlie...
folks if you want a push pull to play good call Mr Charlie..he's the best...IMHO.
Charlie..

Frank Parish · From: Nashville,Tn. USA

I seen one of these at Scottys in 86 8/6 best I remember but I bought the Rosewood 8/4 because it had great tone and I just wasn't crazy about the basket weave. About a year later some guy walked in with one and sat in to play with the band with it. I think it was a single neck, but it's been a long time ago. It might have been a 12 string.

Al Miller · From: Waxahachie Texas

Mike (Cookie) Jones has one of these as well.
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Rick Collins · From: Claremont , CA USA

Those chrome legs just don't belong.
Wrap some wicker material around them. Very Happy

John Bechtel · From: Nashville, Tennessee, R.I.P.

Mike ‘Cookie’ Jones plays a Basket-Weave Emmons P/p with 10-Pedals and about 10-Knees!
(Well, it looks like I'm a day late and a dollar short with my knowledge!)
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Rick Schmidt · From: Prescott AZ, USA

I played bass with Heather Myles at the Country Gold Festival in Kumamoto, Japan a few years back and we hired a young Japanese steeler, Hiroshi "Run-di" Ozaki, who just tore it up on one just like that.

I remember thinking to myself that I never knew Emmons made basket weave models, AND that there are MONSTER pickers in the most unlikely places.

Kevin Hatton · From: Buffalo, N.Y.

Carco Clave had one like that in Nashville.

Charlie McVay · From: Pittsburgh, Pa. USA

Hi Herb Steiner,

This is the same guitar you seen at the ISGC back in the early 90's. I've never seen another one of these guitars in person, but I did hear from Mike Cass that Russ Hicks had one that was complete Basket Weave. Ron Sr. said there was only a few of these guitars ever made and rare, just like you said, but most of them had only had front and back Basket Weave and Black mica tops.

Thanks, Charlie Moore for your kind words. I was a fanatic about P/P's tone and restoring them exactly how they were made and never cut no corners just to say I restored them or to make a quick buck. I did it because I loved it.

I played staff steel guitar at the ( WWVA ) Wheeling Jamboree and Jamboree in the Hills for 24 Yrs and Mike(Cookie)Jones come in with Barbra Mandrel and played this guitar there and tried to buy or trade to get this guitar off of me, but I held on to it. To my knowledge, he called Ron and had a LeGrande built with front and back Basket Weave and Black top and that is the guitar he has that John Bechtel is talking about and not a P/P. Mike please correct me if I'm wrong.

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Ben Elder · From: La Crescenta, California, USA

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Ray DeVoe · From: Hudson, FL

Hey Charlie

How are you ?

This is Ray DeVoe and the guitar pictured in my avatar is the old black 67 Emmons D 10 PP that I purchased from you. You sure did a nice rebuild and setup job on this guitar. The guitar still looks and plays just about like it did when I purchased it.

I also bought Kevin R's old Emmons and had it totally rebuilt. We started from the ground up on that one which included a new body. ( black of course ) The tech did a great job on the guitar but no one sets one up to play any better than you do.

Glad to see you out here and that you are holding on to some of those old guitars. I think you had about 6 of them the last time I was up to the store.

I've been down here below Nashville TN now for the past 12 years and never get back up to your area anymore. Time flies !! When I look at the time frame, that must of been around 16 years ago when I bought the guitar from you. I will probably hang on to these two until the day comes when I give it all up !!

Drop a note back when you have time and how is that steel playing brother of yours doing?

Ray
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Mike Jones · From: Goodlettsville,TN,USA

I have one of those, Mine is a Legrade, I was told the only Legrade made with a basketweave.

chris ivey · From: california (deceased)

hey mike..did you ever have a d10 wood neck/lacquer tobacco sunburst emmons ? i think it was originally 10+6 and someone said it might have been made for barbara's band. late seventies or early eighties i think.
somewhere along the line it got bent and beat up...but it's cool now. mini grover tuners. polished [shiny] knee levers.

Dave Ristrim · From: Whites Creek, TN

I've got a D12 basket weave P/P Emmons. I need to pull it out and start playing it again. I don't think it's seen the light of day in over 15 years! Yep, I'm pulling it out of storage.

Chris Lucker · From: Los Angeles, California USA

I just checked to see if Formica lists the basket weave laminate anymore and they do not.

I did, however, find Tangled Seaweed, SIsal Mat and Cardboard.

Can you imagine ordering mica that looks like cardboard?

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