#204644 - 22/02/2004 04:22
Re: Production Knobs and Buttons
[Re: srhodes]
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Registered: 14/03/2003
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Loc: Syracuse NY
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I want green
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#204645 - 22/02/2004 06:35
Re: Production Knobs and Buttons
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Registered: 28/08/2003
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Loc: Isle of Wight, UK
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Woohoo, I've finally got round to ordering my light kit too.
/me can't wait...
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#204646 - 23/02/2004 09:11
Re: Production Knobs and Buttons
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#204647 - 23/02/2004 17:14
Re: Production Knobs and Buttons
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pooh-bah
Registered: 13/01/2002
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Loc: Louisiana, USA
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Thank you everyone for your requests. The price is now finalized at $39.99 US.
I neglected to mention that the first batch is only for MK2As. Sorry for those it left out. I expect this batch to arrive this week, barring any(more) unforeseen disasters.
Stu
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#204649 - 23/02/2004 17:31
Re: Production Knobs and Buttons
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Registered: 28/08/2003
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Loc: Isle of Wight, UK
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Stu, any ideas when you'll have an order page on your site for these buttons?
/me wants to get his order in asap...
(or are we gonna do the ordering via this medium?)
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#204650 - 23/02/2004 18:25
Re: Production Knobs and Buttons
[Re: tfabris]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 15/08/2000
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Loc: New Jersey, USA
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Now that's marketing! 
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#204651 - 23/02/2004 23:57
Re: Production Knobs and Buttons
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pooh-bah
Registered: 19/09/2002
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Loc: East Coast, USA
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Might as well bundle in a drive upgrade, digital out add on, fan upgrade, new set 'a drive sled screws, and a full exterior and interior detailing.
Hm, still tweaking the green, so maybe I should order a smoke while I'm waiting.
But on Mark's lense/button matching comment: Which lenses are these buttons being matched to? Original empeg, Darkstorm, or Filener? Or maybe the three are all similar enough so it will just work.
I won't be pickey. My dashboard, empeg, Alpine CD lights don't match perfectly, so oh well. Thanks again, can't wait for the glow.
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#204652 - 24/02/2004 06:06
Re: Production Knobs and Buttons
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 15/08/2000
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I would guess they are being matched to the original empeg lenses. But even then, you still have the cyan color of the VFD to deal with. The LEDs are white. You will almost always have a color difference between the buttons and VFD.
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#204653 - 25/02/2004 09:16
Re: Production Knobs and Buttons
[Re: tfabris]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 13/01/2002
Posts: 1649
Loc: Louisiana, USA
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In reply to:
You could also offer a service to swap out the Mk2 rotary encoder for the Mk2a rotary encoder, so that folks with the Mk2s could get a quadruple-whammy of an upgrade: Light kit, clear buttons, new (not worn-out) encoder, and new (quieter click) type of encoder.
Thanks for the plug! We are unofficially replacing encoders. We've done one and it works fine, but we'd very much like to get a hold of the OEM model Alps encoder with .5mm of travel rather than the 1.5mm we have now, but Alps seems to deem the American market suited only for the 1.5mm ones. Anyway, we're still looking.
Stu
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#204655 - 04/03/2004 14:12
Re: Production Knobs and Buttons
[Re: maczrool]
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Registered: 28/08/2003
Posts: 149
Loc: Isle of Wight, UK
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Well, my lighting kit is installed, all I need is some transparent buttons!
Any idea of an ETA?
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#204656 - 04/03/2004 19:25
Re: Production Knobs and Buttons
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pooh-bah
Registered: 13/01/2002
Posts: 1649
Loc: Louisiana, USA
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Supposedly they are arriving via overnight tomorrow.
Stu
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#204657 - 04/03/2004 20:41
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pooh-bah
Registered: 19/09/2002
Posts: 2494
Loc: East Coast, USA
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I second that. Just got my lit-button-installed empeg back from Stu. Lookin' good! (obligatory lit buttons pic)
Can;t wait to get some of the colored ones!
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#204658 - 06/03/2004 07:52
Re: Production Knobs and Buttons
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pooh-bah
Registered: 13/01/2002
Posts: 1649
Loc: Louisiana, USA
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Thanks! The buttons (all 30 sets) arrived yesterday. We'll be contacting those that expressed interest shortly.
Stu
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#204659 - 06/03/2004 08:06
Re: Production Knobs and Buttons
[Re: maczrool]
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enthusiast
Registered: 16/02/2001
Posts: 373
Loc: Switzerland
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Cool! I am already checking my eMail in a second interval
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#204660 - 07/03/2004 13:23
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[Re: maczrool]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 19/09/2002
Posts: 2494
Loc: East Coast, USA
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Awesome, I'll switch from checking the Eutronix site twice daily to checking my e-mail. Still watching for a green set... and a picture of the smoke because those might work well too. You know where to get me at Juno. Thanks.
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#204661 - 08/03/2004 01:26
Re: Production Knobs and Buttons
[Re: maczrool]
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Registered: 22/09/2000
Posts: 195
Loc: Copenhagen, Denmark
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Can you disclose when you plan on having buttonsets available for the MK2 ?
Cheers
Kaare
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#204662 - 08/03/2004 06:13
Re: Production Knobs and Buttons
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 15/08/2000
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Loc: New Jersey, USA
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This one was my fault. I had sent sample buttons from my spare bits bin to have castings made. Unfortunately, I had sold my Mark2 long ago, so I only had one Mark2 knob to send. Because my Mark2 was an older variety, it had the old pre-fix knob on it. That's why I had a spare knob - I put the knob fix in place, and this was left over. The cast prototypes all slipped as badly or worse than the original.
Stu now has a correct (fixed) Mark2 knob to make a casting from, but it caused a bit of a delay.
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#204663 - 08/03/2004 08:38
Re: Production Knobs and Buttons
[Re: pgrzelak]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 13/01/2002
Posts: 1649
Loc: Louisiana, USA
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Wouldn't you know it? Something was done rather poorly in the first run of parts and now it looks like all 150 pieces will have to be redone. The finish came out chalky and easy to scratch, which is not at all like the samples.
No it's not your fault that there aren't MK2 knobs Paul! The correct MK2 mold was made at the time the order was placed for the MK2A parts, but the decision was made (by me) to make only a small simple run with only MK2a parts in case a problem like this arose. We're going to raise hell with the supplier today, so hopefully this can be corrected in a timely fashion.
Stu
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#204664 - 08/03/2004 10:37
Re: Production Knobs and Buttons
[Re: maczrool]
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Registered: 22/09/2000
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Loc: Copenhagen, Denmark
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Wouldn't you know it? Something was done rather poorly in the first run of parts and now it looks like all 150 pieces will have to be redone. The finish came out chalky and easy to scratch, which is not at all like the samples.
No it's not your fault that there aren't MK2 knobs Paul! The correct MK2 mold was made at the time the order was placed for the MK2A parts, but the decision was made (by me) to make only a small simple run with only MK2a parts in case a problem like this arose. We're going to raise hell with the supplier today, so hopefully this can be corrected in a timely fashion.
Ahh.. Sorry to hear about your never ending trouble with the caster. I was just being curious about the timeframe for the mk2, but you've more or less answered my question "it's coming!" which is good enough for me!
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#204665 - 09/03/2004 16:23
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[Re: maczrool]
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enthusiast
Registered: 08/06/1999
Posts: 345
Loc: New Jersey, USA
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The smoked knob looks like it has a lot of blue in it! .. but it still looks awesome!
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#204666 - 09/03/2004 23:00
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enthusiast
Registered: 04/03/2002
Posts: 217
Loc: Lowell, MA
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Not sure how to request them, but I just installed my LED kit tonight, it looks awsome and in dire need of the translucent buttons. Depending on price, I might want to order both blue and smoked. For now I just dremeled small holes into the original buttons like I saw done in a post a while ago.
BTW, I received my LED kit quickly. The kit was a bit of a challenge but went off without a hitch. Keep up the good work
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#204667 - 10/03/2004 08:00
Re: Production Knobs and Buttons
[Re: maczrool]
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Registered: 30/07/2001
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Loc: Lochcarron and Edinburgh
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In reply to:
We'll be contacting those that expressed interest shortly.
How long should we expect to wait to hear from you? (Slightly concerned an email may have gone astray...)
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#204668 - 10/03/2004 15:11
Re: Production Knobs and Buttons
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pooh-bah
Registered: 13/01/2002
Posts: 1649
Loc: Louisiana, USA
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Perhaps I should have expounded a bit. We ran down the list until we ran out of the first of the colors, found out they weren't up to spec and stopped emailing for that reason.
More to come.
Stu
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#204669 - 10/03/2004 21:51
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pooh-bah
Registered: 13/01/2002
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Loc: Louisiana, USA
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Digging through each of the 150 pieces, it seems it was not a total loss. There are 7 red sets, and a couple amber (a little on the red side for some reason) that I feel comfortable selling. We'll be going through the list again and offering these until they're gone.
Stu
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#204670 - 12/03/2004 06:06
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[Re: maczrool]
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Registered: 27/02/2001
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Loc: Albany, NY
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and a couple amber (a little on the red side for some reason)
Does that mean they are more of an orange color then? If so I'd be interested in a set.
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#204671 - 12/03/2004 11:06
Re: Production Knobs and Buttons
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pooh-bah
Registered: 13/01/2002
Posts: 1649
Loc: Louisiana, USA
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Yes, more orange. I'll see if we have any left to sell. Most sets had a piece or two I would classify as a second and we don't want to sell those.
Stu
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#204672 - 13/03/2004 06:39
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#204673 - 17/03/2004 22:10
Re: Production Knobs and Buttons
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Registered: 02/04/2002
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I received my order of buttons today, and they are pretty sweet. I took maybe 30 pictures of them. Both day and night shots too.
Awesome job, I can't wait to get some more in a couple of months, hopefully some more colors
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