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Topic: knee levers on a budget (and they said I wasn't country) |
Earnest Bovine
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Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 4 Feb 2011 12:04 pm |
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Is your up lever too short? Does it suffer a surfeit of unparallelitude to the floor? Free knee levers are available at nearly every place that sells paint:
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Bob Moss
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Redford, Michigan
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Posted 4 Feb 2011 12:12 pm
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| What no duct tape, that aint country LOL |
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Earnest Bovine
From:
Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 4 Feb 2011 12:15 pm
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| Bob Moss wrote: |
| What no duct tape, that aint country LOL |
But it does use baling wire. |
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Steve English
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Baja, Arizona
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Jerry Hayes
From:
Virginia Beach, Va.
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Posted 4 Feb 2011 1:01 pm
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Hey EB, that's a fine example of the engineering expertise of the old SoCal bunch! Thanks for posting that.......JH in Va. (formerly of SoCal for a short 45 years!)
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Darvin Willhoite
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Roxton, Tx. USA
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Posted 4 Feb 2011 1:30 pm
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That must have been engineered by the same guy that designed Dave Easley's "knee string". 
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Darvin Willhoite
MSA Millennium, Legend, and Studio Pro, Reese's restored Universal Direction guitar, a restored MSA Classic SS, several amps, new and old, and a Kemper Powerhead that I am really liking. Also a Zum D10, a Mullen RP, and a restored Rose S10, named the "Blue Bird". Also, I have acquired and restored the plexiglass D10 MSA Classic that was built as a demo in the early '70s. I also have a '74 lacquer P/P, with wood necks, and a showroom condition Sho-Bud Super Pro. |
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Gord Cole
From:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 4 Feb 2011 3:13 pm
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| Reminds me of Eric's dinner knife lever. |
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Rick Schmidt
From:
Prescott AZ, USA
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Posted 4 Feb 2011 8:52 pm
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| I couldn't tell what kind of fine tone wood you used from this photo....adirondack, sitka, sapele, mahogany? |
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Stu Schulman
From:
Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 4 Feb 2011 9:17 pm
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I'm pretty sure that with some yo-yo string and a couple of marionettes you could have quite a show goin' on! 
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Steve Alcott
From:
New York, New York, USA
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Posted 4 Feb 2011 11:38 pm
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| That's proper. |
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David Mason
From:
Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 5 Feb 2011 5:59 am
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| But seriously - does that raise either, or also both with one knee?? In which case, you just might have something there, Rufus. |
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Leonard G. Robertson
From:
Ozark, Mo. USA
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Posted 5 Feb 2011 8:31 am knee levers
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| I see 2 paint stir sticks used for mixing it up. |
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John Groover McDuffie
From:
LA California, USA
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Posted 5 Feb 2011 11:21 am
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| Bailing wire AND a rubber band!! I'm gonna drive by and see what kind of car you have on blocks in your front yard! |
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Bo Borland
From:
South Jersey -
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Posted 5 Feb 2011 7:58 pm
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| I'm wonder if you television that works is on top of the television that doesn't work. |
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Earnest Bovine
From:
Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 5 Feb 2011 8:08 pm
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| David Mason wrote: |
| But seriously - does that raise either, or also both with one knee?? In which case, you just might have something there, Rufus. |
This is actually my first try at a full 6 lever cluster on the left knee. Primary levers are further in, and I pull away for the secondary levers.
No, I wouldn't use both up levers at the same time. If that were possible, then I couldn't use them independently. I need to be able to use each lever alone, and in some combinations of vertical with right/left.
Obviously there is not much room to work with in the vertical direction. I have to get full movement of the primary (paint-stick) lever without moving the secondary lever that is closer to me. That may be possible, but if the levers aren't horizontal and I move right or left to use another lever at the same time, I'll hit one that I want to miss on the end where it hangs low. Or I'll miss one that I want to hit at the other end. That's why I'm trying different lever options with the paint sticks. Eventually when I get the positions worked out I will go with something more permanent (i.e. less country). Maybe the primary up lever's hinge should run from right to left for example. But probably just a new lever shape would work fine on the existing hardware. It would probably have to slide off so I can get it in the case. I could also use a new lever shape on the secondary lever.
BTW the guitar is a modified Zum. I took it to the Mexican restaurant last night and I thought it sounded really good, even without a Little Walter amp. |
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