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Eman Guitars
Quality hand made guitars and basses.
- 7 String SuperS-type
Guitarist Kenny Hill asked me to make a lightweight 7 string to his specs. I used a pawlonia body reinforced with a walnut block so the tremelo posts wouldn’t ‘drift’. Roasted maple neck with carbon fiber reinforcement, rosewood fretboard and EVO frets. Topped off in Mopar Plum Crazy!
- Semihollow “Ampeg AEB” style build
Always liked these scroll basses and decided to have a go at building one.
- 63 T-Style build.A client wanted a build that was close to the old 1963 Fender® with the correct color blonde. Fun build, swamp ash maple and rosewood.
- Lap Steel for the studio.We needed a lap steel in the studio so I knocked one up out of Black Limba with a wenge fretboard. I used actual frets for markers.
- Left Handed ExplorerClient asked me to build a left handed Explorer-type for his son. Always glad to oblige, turned out great even though I couldn’t play it!
- Bubble Wand 8 string bass.Along the lines of the Bubble Wand T style I built this 8 string bass from Black Limba, Mahogany and padauk. Pickups are EMG passive “Geezer” signature. Light weight, sounds great! For sale!
- Bubble wand T styleThis started off as being a normal T style build with some heavy Ash… really really heavy ash. The body, once shaped was close to 10 pounds by itself. I used a lighter piece of wood for the build and came back to this one with the idea of making it somewhat lighter and this is the result! It’s very lightweight, but sounds GREAT. Vintage 65 new bridge pickup by Fender® and the neck pickup is a Fender® Custom Shop Robert Cray Strat pickup. It’s stronger than it looks and sustain is just fine. Want it? Let me know!
- Lazy SusanA friend asked me to make this, it was a little more labor intensive than I thought but turned out great. Let me know if you’d like me to build one for you!
- 12 months in a drainage ditch.. still works!!!I built this guitar a few years ago for my friend Billy. It was my first neck-through and it utilized EMG 81/60 pickups and Billy really loved it. Billy regularly played it on stage with his band in Mississippi.
Then, in December 2018, it was stolen out of his vehicle.
We launched a nationwide hunt, posting pics everywhere and scanning craigslist posts for months. Nothing, it was gone without a trace. Almost exactly one year to the day that it was stolen, Billy was outside working on his house when his dogs went crazy. He walked around the front of the house to see what the commotion was and there was this crackhead-looking kid walking by the house WITH THE GUITAR! Billy chased him down and demanded he turn it over, the kid dropped the guitar (which fell out of the case.. which fell apart) and took off running. Billy pursued him with righteous indignation and caught him. Billy demanded an explanation whereapon the kid pulled a gun out and Billy decided that retrieving the guitar would probably be enough today. He went back and retrieved the guitar. Apparently, the original thief (or thieves) had stashed the guitar in a drainage ditch, perhaps intending to retrieve it later, but who knows. It lay in a drainage ditch in Mississippi for 12 months. It was dripping wet and was somewhat worse for the wear. The pic in what’s left of the case shows how it was then. Check out the slug on the back of the headstock.
After it dried out, he sent it to me to see if I could do anything with it. The fretboard was half off so I steamed the rest off. Amazingly the neck below was still dead straight. I pulled the frets out of the board as some of them had lifted.. and it was just nasty. After a sanding I figured the board could be saved so I filled the crack and refretted it. I soaked the tuners in ‘metal rescue’ which is something I’ve used for rust removal on motorcycles in the past. I also socked the trussrod end and most of the screws in it. The electrics.. I popped the cavity cover off and it looked pretty good in there. I plugged it in and tapped the pickups with a screwdriver.. they worked! Even with the rusty 9v battery that spent a year in the ditch. What a testament to the resiliency of EMG pickups, something to be said for sealed pickups! I had to clean the contacts on the jack socket and lube the selector switch but other than that, we were good.
Billy said he wanted to retain the black staining as he thought it was now part of the ‘mojo’ of the guitar (he’s Native American and very spiritual). I glued on the board, put a new nut on and set it up. Plays and sounds just as great as it did when I first built it. Tuners work fine after lubing. The apparent deamination on the neck and headstock seemed to be caused by swelling of the woods at different rates. Once dry, it looked was better and the joints are solid. I’m just applying Tru Oil to the back of the neck to make it feel better and then I’m mailing it back to him.
Chalk up a win for the good guys!!! - Bigsby Style build *sold*This guitar was commissioned by a customer who wanted one of the Bigsby reissues that came out a few years back. They are very hard to come by, so he decided to have me build one for him. All maple construction, birds eye maple top, big leaf maple body and rock maple neck. The accents are done in wenge. Pickups are Seymour Duncan Phat Cats in one-off aluminum surrounds. Bridfge is Schaller and the tuners are Schaller DaVinci. Rosewood fretboard with real MOP inlays and 12″ radius.
- Custom Fretless Bass For SaleThis bass is a mash up of different styles of bass in one. It has the classic Rickenbacker shape, but with a carved maple top similar to PRS style. It has a bolt-on maple and ebony fretless neck in the Fender style. Neck pocket is standard Fender size in case someone wanted to put a fretted neck on. Pickups are Rickenbacker, the bridge pickup is a 1974 4001 pickup, the neck is a 2007 4003 pickup. Bass sounds GREAT! Neck has a 16″ radius with white side dots where the frets would be and gold side dots where the traditional markers would be. Way easier to play than you’d think, lots of fun to noodle on. Should be louder than most, the knobs go to 11!! The instrument is perfectly balanced on the strap. Tuners are Hipshot Ultralights and the bridge is a Hipshot A. Body is made from poplar with a thick maple cap and nitro finish. 100% Made in the USA! Serial # 513619 And for only $2500! Any questions, send me an email at eman@eman-guitars.com
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- New Video featuring Eman guitars (and me playing bass).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSipTzBFMHI&feature=share
- New video from R&B artist Antonn Walker featuring Eman Guitars artist Nic Coccohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NSRgx-_Xz0&feature=youtu.be
- Custom Semi HollowThis build was for a customer who already bought two guitars from me… he knows what he likes! Mahogany neck and body, maple top. Ebony fingerboard with gold EVO frets. Seymour Duncan pickups. Light and sounds great!
- Neck through semi hollow Jazz BassComplete custom build to customers specs.
- Jazzy BaritoneDid this one recently for a customer. Warmouth neck that I tinted with blue nitro, I made the body. Came out pretty cool I think!
- Now an Allparts and Hipshot dealer!Since I can now get these parts at wholesale, it’ll make your custom guitar that much more of a bargain! I pass my savings onto the customer!
- Gene Simmons KISS replica BassA client asked me to replicate the early 70s version of the custom built bass that LoBue made for Gene Simmons. Took quite a bit of research, there really aren’t many quality pictures of it out there and to make it worse, the original was stolen years ago. Mr. Simmons accounts of what it was and where it went change on a regular basis, so he’s no help. Mahogany construction, 30″ scale length, Schaller roller bridge and tuners. Gibson-style ‘mudbucker’ pickup. Turned out to be a nice instrument as well as looking the part. Here’s hoping the client is happy with it. Want something similar… or something nothing like this? Gimme a yell.
- Cool maple top with angry face becomes custom built Telecaster for Jim Root.I saw this top on eBay and I had to have it! Ended up becoming a custom build for Slipknot Guitarist Jim Root. For sure my best work to date!
