Long time lurker and first time poster.
Mainly cos im really more of an acoustic guitar guy and dont really understand a whole lot of what goes on here but anyway...
Seeing as how its Black Friday, and I just scored a new job after being laid off, and how ive been gassing for a hollowbody lectric with P90's, I went and splashed out on a Gretsch 2420 streamliner. Ive had gretschs before, a 6119 tennessee rose, but offloaded that a while back for some reason I cant remember.
Anyhow it came with these really horrible translucent plastic knobs which are really cheap looking, but dont seem to come off easily. Anybody got any experience of replacing these ?
Cheers
NGD Black Friday special.
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Re: NGD Black Friday special.
If you're trying to get knobs off (phrasing!) without damaging anything the best way I've found is using a thin cloth or old t-shirt.
Put the edge of the cloth under the edge of the knob, kind of get it three quarters of the way around the circumference then twist the cloth into a pouch over the top of the knob. Then gently but firmly pull upward on the cloth to remove the knob.
Put the edge of the cloth under the edge of the knob, kind of get it three quarters of the way around the circumference then twist the cloth into a pouch over the top of the knob. Then gently but firmly pull upward on the cloth to remove the knob.
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Re: NGD Black Friday special.
Or string or a bit of hook up wire. Any metric size knob will fit. But I agree the knobs on the Streamliners are their worst feature cosmetically. Get some chrome ones I reckon. Congrats on the new guitar!
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I'm a master at knob pulling, feel free to PM me for pictures.
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Re: NGD Black Friday special.
Soooo. Heres the situation and the question as asked by the Clash.
Have committed myself this year to putting in some solid practice with the aim of becoming a better player. To this end I have been straying away from my comfortable cowboy chords into more single note lick type territory.
What I have now discovered is that my new Gretsch which played nicely up in Cowboy chord territory is not so flash further down the fretboard. I was struggling to do a b string slide from the 6th fret to the 5th cleanly, until I picked up one of my other guitars and No sweat. So it wasnt just me. Then checked out the intonation on the Gretsch and its all over the shop with the B string sounding dead most of the way along the fretboard. Now I figure that this is all sortable with a roller bridge or new hardtail (to dispense with the bigsby) BUT this is a limited edition G2420 P90 so by doing all of this and probably changing the pickups then I have strayed away from what the guitar is in the first place. So, What do you guys think ? Flick it on and be done with it, or faff around with it to get it sorted ? I have also probably come to the conclusion that I am an old guitar guy rather than a new guitar guy if you know what I mean.
Have committed myself this year to putting in some solid practice with the aim of becoming a better player. To this end I have been straying away from my comfortable cowboy chords into more single note lick type territory.
What I have now discovered is that my new Gretsch which played nicely up in Cowboy chord territory is not so flash further down the fretboard. I was struggling to do a b string slide from the 6th fret to the 5th cleanly, until I picked up one of my other guitars and No sweat. So it wasnt just me. Then checked out the intonation on the Gretsch and its all over the shop with the B string sounding dead most of the way along the fretboard. Now I figure that this is all sortable with a roller bridge or new hardtail (to dispense with the bigsby) BUT this is a limited edition G2420 P90 so by doing all of this and probably changing the pickups then I have strayed away from what the guitar is in the first place. So, What do you guys think ? Flick it on and be done with it, or faff around with it to get it sorted ? I have also probably come to the conclusion that I am an old guitar guy rather than a new guitar guy if you know what I mean.