The best knobs I've ever seen!

Uncle Krunkus

I just got these little skulls today.
They're made of resin and cost me AU$1.40 each.
I've got a fuzz pedal I made which is the shape of a coffin. I call it the Fuzzferatu. It has three controls down the front; - level, tone and drive. Guess where these little beauties are going?
There's about 8 or 9 different variations, I'm even thinking they'd be great on the front of a synth module.
Some days make you smile big time! Very Happy

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synth_ollie · Joined: Sep 11, 2006 Posts: 149 Location: sweden

YEAH !

bugbrand · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 2:29 am Post subject:

Awh, noooooo. Sorry, but that's crossing far too many lines!!!! Keep it tech geek in my opinion!!

Uncle Krunkus · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 2:47 am Post subject:

Hey Tom!
My only rule is "there aint no rules",
and "tiny skull knobs are just automatically cool!" Laughing

Uncle Krunkus · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 2:51 am Post subject:

Maybe I'm just not a very good geek. Confused

I never thought that I never thought that I'd be happy to say that! Shocked

andrewF · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 3:05 am Post subject:

Uncle Krunkus · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 3:18 am Post subject:

I think you put it over the end of the chicken, and when it whistles, you're done. Shocked

jhaible · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 3:21 am Post subject:

Love those big, fat chickenheads.
I always have mixed feelings about ordinary chickenheads (except for switches):
They look great, but you don't rotate them as smoothly as an ordinary knob. The big ones look like they fix this problem.

Who sells them?

JH.

bugbrand · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 3:32 am Post subject:

Uncle Krunkus · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 3:48 am Post subject:

Ah,.... the beach, yes.
The feel of crushed aspiration between my toes!
The gentle lapping of entropy!
So many moist beginnings and scorched finality.
A million billion grains of hope,
Such a levelled playing field.

Twisted Evil

andrewF · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 3:49 am Post subject:

Clack · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 6:21 am Post subject:

wow they look Bakelite dont drop them!

isnt it annoying how you can only get most knobs in black - there are acceptions but most stock is black

I guess if your doing mass orders black is the safest option. But it would be great to get somthing like brown moog/boss style knobs or fluorescent pink mixer style knobs.

I guess you need to become a manufacturer like buchla to have those choices available

norman phay · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 8:11 am Post subject:

Fuzzferatu! Ha.

Kudos.

Tim Servo · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 8:35 am Post subject: The best knobs I've ever seen!

Now what we need are some Chicken Skull Knobs!

(wow, do an image search for 'skull' and you get some WACKY sh*t)

Tim (not fully wacky until 10AM) Servo

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ericcoleridge · Joined: Jan 16, 2007 Posts: 889 Location: NYC

jhaible · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 1:57 pm Post subject:

Peake · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 2:20 pm Post subject:

Those large chicken-beak knobs look like the old RCA style knobs that Groove Tubes revived for the VIpre and Glory.

Danno Gee Ray · Joined: Sep 25, 2005 Posts: 1351 Location: Telford, PA USA

I am absolutely positive that Spike The Percussionist would LOVE those Skull Knobs. If I recall correctly he uses similar chrome type knobs on some of his stomps. N I C E! All ya need now is switch levers shaped like bones...a faceplate of old weathered wood...A vulture with LFO LED's for eyes...Well, you know.

Danno Gee Ray · Joined: Sep 25, 2005 Posts: 1351 Location: Telford, PA USA

...A synth that looks like a mad scientist's workshop...

crashlander42 · Joined: Oct 21, 2006 Posts: 292 Location: Orlando, FL (US)

The skull knobs are awesome! I want! They would go great with an occult themed noise box.

Uncle Krunkus · Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 3:17 am Post subject:

Keep in mind that they are not knobs yet. I'm going to drill and tap them to make them into knobs. I'll probably give 'em a bit better stain/drybrush job as well.

Here's the Fuzzferatu I'm planning on adding them to.

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Tim Servo · Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 9:11 am Post subject: The best knobs I've ever seen!

Okay, now THAT is by far the coolest stomp box I have EVER seen! Nice work!!

Did you make that? If so, you get super-uber-DIY props for your woodworking skills. People are going to start asking you to make / sell those enclosures, I can pretty much guarantee it. Wink

Either tell them no, or charge a LOT to make it worth the time you obviously put into this.

The only thing I can think to add (and it would be difficult) would be teeny LEDs in the eyes of the skull knobs! (SMT low power LEDs and a hearing aid battery inside the skull?).

Tim (if Dracula had a cold, would he be coughin' in his coffin?) Servo

Fernando · Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 1:27 pm Post subject:

andrewF, that knobs are real porn. I love them cyclops

Danno Gee Ray · Joined: Sep 25, 2005 Posts: 1351 Location: Telford, PA USA

That box is WICKED!

Excellent work. I thinks those knobs wil finish it perfectly.

andrewF · Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 3:39 pm Post subject: