Little Guitar Works

Custom Knobs

melissa — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:54:52 +0000

I almost always make my own knobs for the instruments that I build, and I occasionally make custom knobs for others too. This is one of those things that, thanks to my lovely little old South Bend lathe, is a relatively small task which adds a finishing touch that doesn’t compare to anything “off the shelf”.

During my time at Parker Guitars, one of my tasks was to make ebony knobs for the Spanish Fly guitars, which were a classy upgrade to the standard plastic and rubber knobs. Somehow word got out on the forums that I could still make custom wooden knobs, and it became (at times) a regular part of my business.

This time around, as I was making knobs for a new 5-string Torzal bass, I decided to pull out the camera so I could capture the process and share it with the world. Take a look….

Here are a couple of examples of knobs I have made for other guitars:

Padilla/Little custom Torzal collaboration

melissa — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 03:37:48 +0000

It’s been several years since Xavier Padilla and I started designing his custom Torzal Natural Twist ergonomic bass together. As we are now beginning to embark on an entirely new project, I realized I had a lot of great images left over from our first project and that they ought to be shared. All the pieces were there, including some great music written and performed by Xavier (performed, of course, on his Torzal bass). I hope you enjoy the video, and stay tuned for future posts on our new project!

New Things at Little Guitar Works

melissa — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:47:30 +0000

We are in the process of changing our website to a new format, with this blog style home page. In this way, we can easily keep visitors up to date on what we’re working on and share information that we hope you will be interested in. So please bear with us as we work out the bugs and feel free to let us know if you find something that doesn’t work or something you wish were better or different.

Also, we just moved to a new, larger shop and are ready to rock on a whole host of new and exciting projects!

Dave Pomeroy checks the straightness of his Torzal neck. Check out what Dave's up to at http://www.davepomeroy.com/