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Topic: Fender Cable Knee Levers |
Russ Wever
From:
Kansas City
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Posted 12 Nov 2018 10:12 pm |
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Seems like all 'cableheads' like to see different approaches to adding
knee levers, so, fwiw, here're three I added to a Four-Hundred . .
. . with thanks to Bruce & Doug for several Zum & Encore parts!
Click~> RKR
Click~> LKR
Click~> LKL
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Eric Watts
From:
Indiana, USA
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Posted 13 Nov 2018 5:38 pm cable knees
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| Very nice solution!!! How do they feel when playing? Are the parts off the shelf, or did you fab them up yourself??? |
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Marty Broussard
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Broussard, Louisiana, USA
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Posted 14 Nov 2018 4:33 am
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Very cool and appears to be lightweight. I have some extra Carter Starter parts that might be good for doing a Fender....hmmm.
Again, very impressive.
MB
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Dennis Montgomery
From:
Western Washington
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Jerry Erickson
From:
Atlanta,IL 61723
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Posted 14 Nov 2018 11:05 pm
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Nice, Russ!
Was any duct tape involved, Dennis? |
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 15 Nov 2018 2:08 am
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| In 1970 Sho-Bud made a knee lever kit for my Fender 2000. I don't remember the particulars, except it was a "RKL", and no pictures. But I used the cable from the 10th pedal for the knee lever. It was the Sho-Bud lower 2nd string and lower 8th string. |
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Dennis Montgomery
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Western Washington
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Michael Johnstone
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Sylmar,Ca. USA
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Posted 17 Nov 2018 10:35 pm
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I added 6 levers to an 800 ten string including an outside RKL and a vertical. Apart from a few bicycle brake parts and the 2 central reversing pulleys for RKR and outside RKL, I used all stock Fender cable and pulley parts I scrounged off of Fender players who had spare parts (that mission took a while). I made all the mechanisms, stops and reversing doo-dads by hand out of 6061-T6 with a hacksaw,hand tools and a drill press. It all works pretty good and sounds like a Stringmaster. I got as close to my 12 string E9/B6 as I could with 10 strings, 6+6 and a double raise/double lower changer.
The levers all folded up across the guitar.
The RKL has a 2nd string half-stop raise (C#>D>D#) and the reversal mechanism uses a roller bearing riding on a curved counterpart so it's real smooth and has a real positive halfway click to it.
Then I added two of Jason Lollar's 10 string Stringmaster pickups and had Chas Smith cut me the plate parts to mount them and still look kinda stock. I have one volume control and a pickup blend knob. I took the rubber mute thang off 'cause it's useless.
After all that work I had to sell it to pay medical bills after my insurance was cancelled because I had cancer. |
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