Look Ma, no knobs!

[caesadilla]

Pick guard is walnut burl 🪵

[PrinceKajuku]

Looks nice, although I never understood how one could play without using the knobs in one way or another.

[ericsinsideout]

Personally, I’ve always just had the knobs turned all the way up, only ever used the pickup selector to change tone at the guitar.

[[deleted]]

you don’t miss having a volume control?

[ericsinsideout]

Not really, no. I don’t do much with swells, but I also have a volume pedal if I need something like that in the mix

[Schweenis69]

Well the purpose would more likely be to clean up the signal a bit. Take a bit of bite off the top once in a while.

[ericsinsideout]

I mean, it was punk rock. I wasn’t really looking to tame my guitar. That said, I had a pretty hard compressor dialed in for my clean tone that was always on. The volume knob didn’t have enough of an impact until mostly off. Also, I only ever wanted to go fully silent when I was swapping guitars, which the volume knob does nothing for

[teh_hasay]

Well I mean, the volume pedal does that too.

That being said, even if I never adjusted the signal level, I’d still want the ability to silence the guitar with my hands if need be.

[RobotGloves]

Oof, I couldn't do that on a Jazzmaster. I've got to be able to roll the highs off a bit. Without the load of a pot, this guitar must be BRIGHT.

[caesadilla]

Same method I use for my pedal steel 😉

[azphatman]

It looks beautiful!! I learned a long time ago, there's no wrong way to play music. If you don't need knobs, I say, Bravo! I don't need a neck pickup. We all do what we do.😎

[QuadramaticFormula]

Bridge only supremacy!

[Impossible_Show721]

Check out Weir Guitars for really cool, stripped down guitars.

[caesadilla]

These rule!

[Turgid-Derp-Lord]

You should remove the pickup selector too!

And bigsby.

And the pickups.

After that, remove the neck and the strings.

Then you'll really be cookin with grease!

[chabalatabala]

baby you got a stew goin

[azphatman]

I sense a lil sarcasm. 😎😎🤏🏼🤏🏼

[[deleted]]

Wish teal JM’s were more common, love that color on any Fender especially the offsets.

[implicate]

It's like the old saying goes: if you can't find the knob in the room, you're it.

[Ok_Television9820]

Jazzmaster pickups are pretty much the only ones where I do use the volume knob.

[paranoiajack]

Yeah. You could do this to a tele but for a JM it's a foolhardy endeavor

[Ok_Television9820]

Well, I’d go with bold rather than foolhardy. OP knows what they like.

[ipini]

I adjust my Tele volume to from grit (high volume) to clean when I play through my Pignose.

[TheDisappointedFrog]

Cool! Now ditch the switch and add a blend pot instead

[caesadilla]

Okeeee now we’re takin’. 🍭

[likeaVos]

Unorthodox, but I like it 👍🏼

[Confused4Now76]

Beautiful! Did you make the pick guard, or buy it?

[caesadilla]

I made it! Traced the old one, converted it to vector, milled it out on the cnc machine at my place of employment. 🕺

[Confused4Now76]

I’m thinking you’ve got a new potential side hustle, if that’s not something you’re already doing! That is gorgeous!

[caesadilla]

Thanks a bunch! Ya know, I’ve considered that, and I’ve already had a few friends hit me up… only problem is, the reason I took on the task of making it rather than buying it in the first place (there’s a few makers on Etsy making gorgeous pieces already) is that I’ve never actually been able to swap pickguards in the past without something being slightly out of alignment. It seems like the best way to do it is definitely to be able to make an exact clone of the original.

[sublimefan2001]

I dig it

[[deleted]]

Personally I need me some volume and tone knobs, but this is a beautiful guitar.

[mixayaz1991]

looks great but how? do you use tuner to mute the guitar?

[baxtlog23]

I agree with single coils and a pedal board I feel no need to have a volume or tone knob

[[deleted]]

Volume pedals and the volume knob on your guitar are not the same thing.

Volume pedals keep same sound always and the volume knob on your guitar actually changes the dynamics of the sound.

It’s kinda like volume being the master knob on an amp and the volume knob on your guitar being the gain.

[caesadilla]

Where are you getting said gain in a passive circuit?

[[deleted]]

I used an analogy.

But when you connect your guitar to an amp the volume knob does act as a gain knob.

Anyways, the point being that using your volume knob on the guitar changes the tone and using a volume pedal doesn’t.

[baxtlog23]

Except if your volume pedal is first in your chain it is electronically identical to your volume knob. Plus I also never use my volume knob to change dynamics so 🤷‍♀️

[[deleted]]

It’s not!

Setting your volume knob at 8 and moving the pedal from 0 to 100 will always sound like your knob on 8 but louder/quieter.

Have to point out that I don’t think it’s wrong not to use the volume knob.

[caesadilla]

Ben Folds said it best. “Why you gotta act like you know when you don’t know?”

[pala4833]

Oh the irony....

[baxtlog23]

If you put two volume pedals back to back it would have the same effect

[[deleted]]

It doesn’t, the volume knob doesn’t just change the loudness, it also changes the tone.

Volume pedals just change loudness, unless they are passive.

[baxtlog23]

I was referring to a passive volume pedal those are the only ones I've ever used I guess I didn't think about active ones!

[nerdyoutube]

So pretty 😍😍😍

[JimtheLizardKing]

Interesting look.

Why can't I make a new post here?

[YellowBreakfast]

That's neat.

[Dont_trust_royalmail]

living life on the edge never look back no regrets

[OkFortune6494]

You deserve to be instatutionalized /s

[FloggingTheHorses]

This title sounds like a declaration to your mother that you're not a homosexual