The Steel Guitar Forum

I know it wouldn't be a big seller at all but it'd be great if the Emmons' experts collaborated and wrote a book about the company and it's guitars.

You know:

- A chapter on the company's history.
- A chronological year-by-year history of the guitars and the changes in construction and features through the years.
- A chapter on "one-off", unique or oddball Emmons.
- A chapter on push-pulls.
- A chapter on LeGrandes
- A chapter on student models
- A chapter with interviews of the greats' specific guitars and their reminiscing about all those years they've played them.
- A chapter on maintenance.
- A chapter on other Emmons' non-guitar products.
- A pictorial chapter on the Emmons that "take your breath away."
- A pictorial chapter on the greats' Emmons.
- A forward by (who else) Buddy.

Of course, every chapter would be packed with mind-boggling trivia, details and pics. It would be the definitive reference book.

Heck, I've always wondered why someone hasn't done a calendar yet.

Again, a book like that wouldn't be a big seller AT ALL. But, boy, wouldn't every Emmons player buy one.

Put my name down for one.

I would buy one, and I don't even play an Emmons.

I would buy one, and I don't even play an Emmons.

Bruce, does this mean that you would want 2 of them?

I would buy one, and I do play an Emmons.

I would buy one, and I do play an Emmons.

I know I would buy one

I keep seeing double, and I haven't even started drinking yet.

Make mine a double - double !

Every time I post from my phone it registers as a double post.

Nowadays it's pretty easy to put out a low-volume book without losing your shirt on it. It's called "print-on-demand."

Profits from print on demand publishing are on a per-sale basis, and royalties vary depending on the route by which the item is sold. Highest profits are usually generated from sales direct from the print-on-demand service's website or by the author buying copies from the service at a discount, as the publisher, and then selling them personally.

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Print_on_demand#Economics

If you want, you can just start writing... projects like this can acquire momentum as contributors start popping up wanting to get their share of the story told. It's not a process that lends itself to the coffee table "guitar porn"-type books with page after page of high-grade photographs. I don't know - e-mail Buddy and Ron Lashley and see if they'll agree to some interviews, and take it from there.

Well there ya go Eric, sounds like a great project for someone that's recently retired (before the wife gets her list any longer). Sounds like a fun project!

Most of this info, and a LOT more, is already available to anyone who can do a little searching, either right here on the Forum, or on the web. Please realize that when you're talking about the Emmons Guitar Company...and Buddy Emmons, you're really getting into some rather "sensitive" territory (for lack of better words).

Donny, it could be like "be careful what you wish for".

David Mason wrote:Nowadays it's pretty easy to put out a low-volume book without losing your shirt on it.

Anyone can publish an ebook at no cost. Like at Smashwords. All you need is a properly formatted Word document and a cover. You can also do a print version for free at Amazon's CreateSpace. The big problem with self-publishing is promoting the book, but that shouldn't be an issue in this case.

Heck, I've always wondered why someone hasn't done a calendar yet

I have a pretty good month to month calendar for the first 23 guitars made the first seventeen months. The guitars were changing every month in 1964.

Of course, every chapter would be packed with mind-boggling trivia, details and pics. It would be the definitive reference book.

Yes... a true "Tell All"... I want one.

Be careful what you print.
You could run into legal issues.

Ron L's reply to the "Tuning a Push Pull" post (at the top of this section) indicates some sensitivities to the use of the name.

"You could run into legal issues."

Oh, for the years past when there were fewer hungry lawyers.