{"id":124,"date":"2010-02-08T21:06:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T02:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/?p=124"},"modified":"2012-08-07T13:28:25","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T17:28:25","slug":"evolution-of-the-knobs-lets-call-it-take-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/?p=124","title":{"rendered":"Evolution of the knobs. Let’s call it Take IV."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Between this post and the last, I\u2019ve gone through six more control layouts – most of which were variations on what you\u2019ve already seen…\u00a0 I didn\u2019t feel the need to post them all.\u00a0 The traditional \u201cdiamond\u201d knob layout just wasn\u2019t doing it for me, and I\u2019ve pretty much turned away from it at this point.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m calling this my \u201ccontoured\u201d layout, where the knobs reflect the actual contour of the body (just like the three switches below them.\u00a0 I\u2019ve got the main volume knob where I want it (that is, in front of the bridge), and the position of all the other knobs are based off of that.<\/p>\n

Things didn\u2019t look quite right with this layout, though, until my left brain had its say.\u00a0 I spaced all knobs equidistant from any adjacent knob (the three left knobs form an equilateral triangle), and it was that symmetry that ultimately sealed the deal for me.<\/p>\n

Although I\u2019d like to get the volume knob a bit closer to the bridge, it would either put the MIDI controls too close to where the tailpiece would be, or destroy the symmetry of the layout altogether.\u00a0 Neither byproduct is worth it when we\u2019re only talking about fractions of an inch.<\/p>\n

A few notes… Mica provided me with gold plated brass knobs I\u2019ve chosen for the guitar for this layout – and it\u2019s a good thing, since they are sized differently from the plastic top-hats we\u2019ve been using thus far.\u00a0 Also, you can ignore the extra knob and washers that are obviously outside of the chalk outline – they just happened to be there when the picture was taken!<\/p>\n

Also note – it looks like we still don\u2019t REALLY know the overall color of this guitar!\u00a0 With each picture taken under different lighting conditions, the guitar looks wildly different from shot to shot.\u00a0 I can\u2019t wait to see it in person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Between this post and the last, I\u2019ve gone through six more control layouts – most of which were variations on what you\u2019ve already seen…\u00a0 I didn\u2019t feel the need to post them all.\u00a0 The traditional \u201cdiamond\u201d knob layout just wasn\u2019t … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cjeichinger.com\/diamondeyedjack\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}