Dearmond D knob

[LeFinPepere]

I don't have the patience to search for the thread - maybe Moderators need to recruit Minions? - but people have found them. I think "brass" and "brad" are good keywords and folks found an appropriate size at "hardware stores". My recollection is that they are held in place by friction - the brad is slightly bigger than the hole.

Thank you!

 

[LeFinPepere]

Escutcheon pins is the name!!!I saw that on an older SFIV post!!Amazing!! I could have searched for centuries!!

 

[LeFinPepere]

Yelp! Red Alert!! The -D- knob-mystery is getting thicker!!! Now I have 3 "interruptus D" and 1 "Curly D" (Many thanks to Hans Moust!!) How do you explain this?(The guy who painted the D's got tired after 2345 curly ones, swapped to the "interruptus","no one will notice!")Has this something to do with Tenacious D?Or even worse, Mr D.himself?

 

[LeFinPepere]

Sorry , forgot the pic!

 

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Once I get my molds set up, I can reproduce those knobs. I just don't know how to replicate the brightwork on top of the knobs.

 

[GAD]

Yelp! Red Alert!! The -D- knob-mystery is getting thicker!!! Now I have 3 "interruptus D" and 1 "Curly D" (Many thanks to Hans Moust!!) How do you explain this?(The guy who painted the D's got tired after 2345 curly ones, swapped to the "interruptus","no one will notice!")Has this something to do with Tenacious D?Or even worse, Mr D.himself?

Tou should write an article on knobs!

 

[LeFinPepere]

I thought of a series of books: A-Knobs, B-knobs,and so forth to Z... And then , the much-awaited "Daka-ware toggle-switch-tips: a comprehensive approach, vol.IX"

 

[matsickma]

I think the font of the "D's" changed between the initial DeA release and the subsequent models. So '98 & '99 are one font and '00 and '01 the other. In that time period subtle changes were made like the headstock, TRC, knobs, pick guard, etc.
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[LeFinPepere]

Thank you, matsickma!!
If I'm not mistaken,for M75s: 98 & some 99: DeArmond horizontal inscription,with a curly D and pointed A,plain TRC w/ Guild +the big G+m75, curly D knobs.
After that: slanted Dearmond inscription,'interruptus" D and rounded A, gold shield TRC w/ by Guild,NO big G+m75,interruptus D knobs (sometimes!).
Closest font I spotted to replicate the curly D is Kaufmann std Bold,so I might get me some gold confetti,paste the goddam Ds on, and FLOOD THE MARKET with thousands of fake-D knobs that will leave all the experts speechless ,get real rich,and then I'll ride , like a cowboy,into the dawn to Montana!!Yippie-tay-eh-ho-tayyee-heyyyy!(Gonna be a Dearmond-knobs tycoon!!)

 

[matsickma]

BTW... I think the knobs that we often complain about for Guild and later DeArmond were origionally made by a 3rd party for Guild. I think they may have been supplied by the origional Rowe company who made the DeArmond pickups. The knobs origionally just had a chrome cap without any black lettering.

https://www.musicpickups.com/control-knobs/

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[GAD]

Dude! That's a super cool find!

 

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A couple shots of a R5T

 

[SFIV1967]

If I'm not mistaken,for M75s: 98 & some 99: DeArmond horizontal inscription,with a curly D and pointed A,plain TRC w/ Guild +the big G+m75, curly D knobs.
After that: slanted Dearmond inscription,'interruptus" D and rounded A, gold shield TRC w/ by Guild,NO big G+m75,interruptus D knobs (sometimes!).

The timeline in the catalogs was the other way around:

1998 catalog vs again different on the 1998 price list:



1999 till 2001 catalogs:



Now the two knobs:




On the guitars it was all mixed up. Here 3 pictures of a year 2000 M-77T where the headstock showed on both sides the new font but the parts were already producd with the old style font:



Ralf

 

[LeFinPepere]

Huh, I got it all wrong , then!!1st: rounded,2nd : pointy...Thanks for the info!!

 

[SFIV1967]

Huh, I got it all wrong , then!!1st: rounded,2nd : pointy...Thanks for the info!!

The problem is that guitars on the internet are often shown with wrong years mentioned and also maybe changed knobs. So it is always important to check the year in the serial number and see if the knobs might have been changed, means comparing multiple models for a given year.
Ralf

 

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Interesting knobs on a Harmony.

 

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Martin amp. Made by DeArmond.