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09-02-2011, 08:25 AM
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Hey
Anyone know where i can find those vintage silver knobs?
Fliptop is out of stock
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09-02-2011, 08:35 AM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | Try Vintage-Amp Restoration . The owner wrote the Ampeg book and restores amps. Or Ebay.
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09-02-2011, 08:36 AM
|  | Stuck somewhere in the 90's | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Atlanta, GA | | | Are You talk'n early 70's V4- V4B, silver knob? |
09-02-2011, 08:45 AM
| | | | yup |
09-02-2011, 08:56 AM
| | Stuck somewhere in the 90's | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Atlanta, GA | | | Yea, I did a quick search on google with no workable results. Try the guys that JimmyM suggested, as He's usually spot-on with anything Ampeg.
Oh yea, If You dont mind post Your findings here so other Peeps like Myself will know where to find'em on the "oh shat I broke/lost a knob on My V4/V2" occasion...... |
09-02-2011, 09:19 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: nyc | | | Good luck....you will pay through the nose on the bay. |
09-02-2011, 09:52 AM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | Know what sucks? Somewhere in America, there is an amp tech with a full set of those knobs in one of his drawers, and he'll never advertise them but he has them if someone needs them. And you need them and you'll never find the guy.
Weird how that works...
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09-02-2011, 10:28 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Phoenix. Az. | | | You could try searching some of the vintage radio and other types of electrical equipment web sites. (the google image search feature might be a handy thing to try searching too). Those exact same knobs were probably used on several other types of electrical equipment back in the late-60's/early 70's...
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09-02-2011, 10:39 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Cincinnati, OH | | Here's a couple....
But they aren't the silverfaced =(
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09-02-2011, 10:51 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Vancouver | | | They were also used on the Dan Armstrong basses right? |
09-02-2011, 10:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: nyc | | | Forget it. I did a search a while back..you won't find them...maybe on ebay. I have one spare for my v4B.
If someone were to machine them today, they would cost probably $100 a knob. So much for the peace dividend. Try and find half pole pots! |
09-02-2011, 11:15 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: boston, ma | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Alex1984  They were also used on the Dan Armstrong basses right? | Yes they were. I got one on ebay fairly cheap when I got my V4. It looked newer than the others, but that was the only issue. It was listed as a Dan Armstrong knob. |
09-02-2011, 11:22 AM
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09-02-2011, 11:37 AM
| | Stuck somewhere in the 90's | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Atlanta, GA | | | Been doing some searching, and They were also used on the Dan Armstrong guitars. In the words of Dan Himself:
"Ampeg had planned to build mixers for P.A. systems, and as a result, had acquired thousands of these knobs - the same kind that matched their amplifier line."
I must ask, Where are the thousands of these knobs now? |
09-02-2011, 12:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: nyc | | Quote:
Originally Posted by BLDavis | Out of stock and not coming any time soon. They will buy them from you and sell them for >$27, but that doesn't help. |
09-02-2011, 01:39 PM
| | Old enough to know better.....too young to care! | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Ellenboro, NC | | Quote:
Originally Posted by 77PBass Out of stock and not coming any time soon. They will buy them from you and sell them for >$27, but that doesn't help. |
Ouch! 
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09-02-2011, 01:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: boston, ma | | | I don't think Bruce has had any for quite some time honestly. I know it's been listed as a product, but they were out of stock when I bought my V4 and that was 4 years ago. |
09-02-2011, 03:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: austin,tx | | Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmyM Know what sucks? Somewhere in America, there is an amp tech with a full set of those knobs in one of his drawers, and he'll never advertise them but he has them if someone needs them. And you need them and you'll never find the guy.
Weird how that works... | +1
I've never met a good tech that didn't have heaps of oddball parts laying around and nobody knows what they're all for except him.  |
09-02-2011, 03:51 PM
| | | | thx for your answers.. I'll be posting if i get somewhere with this | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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