This is a Youtube clip of Barney Kessel, talking about his guitar.
He has a some old-school pointer knobs from a record player.
I know they aren't what would be called "chicken head" knobs.
Any idea what the proper name would be?
This is a Youtube clip of Barney Kessel, talking about his guitar.
He has a some old-school pointer knobs from a record player.
I know they aren't what would be called "chicken head" knobs.
Any idea what the proper name would be?
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
The video resolution kind of blurs them, but they sure look like your standard chicken head knobs to me.
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I concur...they look like chicken head knobs...but his are VINTAGE knobs.
It adds to the tone, you know.
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that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little,
shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour."
-Edmund Burke
i have some of those, vintage fosho. some i pulled off old furnaces, some off of old radio equipment like barney says his are from. they are around, you just have to scavenge a little.
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Yep - watched it twice - definitely chicken heads - possible the lighting is making the back of the 'pointer' look a bit longer than usual but I'd bet they're pretty standard... nothing new under the sun...
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My monitor's so dark, I really mis-saw them when I first watched this .
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
Okay. Here's what I thought Barney had, brown or black knobs like these.
Octagonal, the top is sort of diamond cut, and there's a pointer coming off the side.
These are on a 50's Epiphone. I've seen them on early Guilds too.
Any idea what they might be called?
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
I dub them 'octo-chickens' ... :-)
As a fan of chicken legs, I applaud the concept of the octo-chicken.
"I haven't slept for ten days...because that would be too long." -- Mitch Hedberg
They are mottled brown( Two tone brown) chicken head knobs like I have on my 1954 Gibson GA77 amp, and I have never seen repros!
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