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Location: Jet City | I'm still looking for a volume knob for my UKII. I have a pair of Volume and Tone knobs that must've come off a Preacher if anyone wants them. The difference is the center is silver on the Preacher, and gold on the UKII Anyone have a volume knob for me? I've already scoured through Mr. O's stuff. |
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Location: Jet City | still lookin
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Location: SoCal | I have a can of gold spray paint....... |
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Location: Jet City | Now you have me thinking... silver + yellow Sharpie = gold |
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Location: Texas | Simple solution;
Buy a UKII on eBay, remove the knobs, send the rest to me! 
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Interestingly, the center decal trim affixed to the knobs on my UKii are silver. |
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Location: sitting at my computer | Never really noticed before... but the centers on mine are a pair of silver and a pair of gold, arranged diagonally from each other. I thought the gold pair were also silver until I got em in the light better. The difference seems really subtle though. Probably faded with age... like my eyesight! Wonder if they were the same on the earlier "bow tie" inlay models. ? |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | There is a Bow-tie beater on eBay (cracked headstock)
And it looks to have faded-Gold on the knobbies. |
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Location: Germany, where delicious wine is growing (Rheinh) | Damon, please post a pic of a knob, I have a lot of laying arround. Maybe one will fit......
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Location: Texas | Here's a quick snapshot of the knobs on my early model "bowtie" UKII:
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Location: Germany, where delicious wine is growing (Rheinh) | Sorry, not in my stock.
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Location: Jet City | SOBeach - 2012-06-29 3:22 PM Never really noticed before... but the centers on mine are a pair of silver and a pair of gold, arranged diagonally from each other. I thought the gold pair were also silver until I got em in the light better. The difference seems really subtle though. Probably faded with age... like my eyesight! Wonder if they were the same on the earlier "bow tie" inlay models. ? I'll trade you a silver tone and volume for one gold volume.... then we'll both match :D |
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Location: sitting at my computer | well gee, this got my curiosity goin'. So I did a bit of photo searching and it seems like most early models had all gold centers, but later models had silver & gold pairs. Saw one bow-tie model with all gold knobs, centers & dials (UltraGP knobs maybe?). 
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Location: Texas | Damon,
Do you want them to be all-original, or would you be willing to stick in "gold" (replica) inserts into your existing knobs?
(I'm half-thinking I could make reasonable facsimiles, but no promises just yet.)
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Location: Jet City | I just want them to look the same. If there's a way to color it, fine, but if it's a different color gold, it's really no different thn having the silver one in it.
Mine is a late model UKII with the big metal bridge and it came with gold centered knobs(I wish I had saved them, but I was an idiot teenager). The wood topped came with gold centered knobs too...
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Location: Mobile, Bama! | You don't like the ones I sent to you? :-) Bummer ... The standard Fender 'Witch hat' knobs look fairly close ... |
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Location: Jet City | You sent half a set
2 solvers and 2 golds. Then I got 1 more gold from mr o, so now I just need the one. I still have the 2 silvers. |
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Location: Mobile, Bama! | :-) I sent what I had ... apparently the previous owners weren't too picky. |
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Location: Mobile, Bama! | Actually, since the UKIIs vol/tone arrangement is different than the standard Gibson setup, that might be why they were mixed in the first place ... |
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Location: Jet City | I don't think so. I bought mine new, both we're gold. The wood topped came all gold as well |
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Location: Mobile, Bama! | Oh, I know they were all gold when new, just mean somewhere along the line a previous owner may have swapped them out ... are all ovations with 4 controls that way? That seemed really odd to me when I first played the UKs, but I've gotten used to it ... its always a head trip whenever I switch to a back to a LP type guitar however. I currently have a generic brown knob set on my brown UK, and I've been thinking of putting little Vs and Ts on them (the knobs) with a paint marker to remind me ... in fairness though, since I've gotten my UKIIs, I seem to be playing the LP type guitars far less often :-) |
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