Wooden knobs?

[Jomasgaard]

Anyone found a good australian source for wooden guitar knobs? Hopefully looking for some spalted maple bells.

[McCreed]

Quick search didn't yield anything here. eBay UK seems to be the place. Not cheap though.

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[Jomasgaard]

Thanks, yeah surprised by the gap in the market.

[Simon Barden]

It's a relatively small market. You won't get rich just making wooden knobs for the occasional guitarist/bass player who wants one, so you'd need to make them as an offshoot of some other wood-product business or have a very large local market available, so that even a small percentage of people interested is a decent number of sales per year.

[Jomasgaard]

Oh definitely, just surprised I can only find one very basic style coming out of china, and not much else out there. Need to kit out my own wood turning gear I guess.

[blinddrew]

2x vice + dremel + fidget spinner = handy lathe.
Broom handle makes a good starting point for knobs.

[McCreed]

2x vice + dremel + fidget spinner = handy lathe.

Do you have a YT video of your contraption? I can't wait to see it!

[blinddrew]

Afraid not! When I did the knobs for my ES5 I just had the dremel screwed into one end and it was a bit erratic.
With eagle-eyed hindsight I subsequently tested it supporting the other end and it worked much better. In my case I used a spare bicycle hub I had kicking around, but I figured a fidget spinner would do the same job and would be more likely to be easily found in our current scenario.

[Jomasgaard]

If anyone else is interested, I found a guy! Handmade in Wisconsin, look great, good price, cheap shipping: Cligan Cables on Reverb

Got two in english chestnut for 18 AUD$ Inc shipping.

[Fretworn]

Greasy Groove in the US sell them as well, or they used to. Haven’t checked in a while.

There have been a few guys on the site who have made there own wooden knobs before to varying levels of success. Glad you found a supplier that had what you wanted.