knobs installation instructions:

.

Remove the old knobs. Position the shafts of all four potentiometers in the full-open position (on ‘10’).

Starting with the shaft that is the closest to the neck, put a new knob on. If the knob touches the surface of the guitar (most likely with La Perla or La Llama guitars), you will have to shim the knob. Business cards are perfect for this! Take one, and cut it in half down the long side. Put the two halves on the face of the guitar, one on each side of the shaft/nut. If this doesn’t give you enough distance between knob and guitar, use two 1/2-business cards on top of each other.

Push the knob down onto the business cards or just down onto the shaft, positioning it so that the indicator dot points straight ahead at an imaginary point about 5cm/2inches below the g-string tuner knob, and tighten the set screw. Tighten it ridiculously well!
At the workshop I position the knobs so that when they are on ’10′, they point parallel to the strings, so that when you’d hang the guitar on the wall, the knobs would point straight up to the ceiling. You can of course position them differently, according to your needs and taste. The thought behind the way I do them comes from my good friend and former bassist Martinus B. Gerritsen: when playing, the dot is visible over a big portion of the rotation of the knob – actually over that part in which you are most interested.

Remove the business cards, and repeat with the other knobs. Do the knob closest to the plug last.

Done.

As always, any questions, please call or email me: teye@teye.com