Genos Drawbars Project

Hi ... here is the initial result of a little project I decided to do ... I bought some extra drawbar (slider) caps from Yamaha, and painted some of them, as you'll see in the photos! Well, here is my first attempt! 2 photos. I know that the brown is not quite what Hammond uses, but it was the closed I had around ... and maybe a little easier to see in a dark room vs. Hammond's much darker brown ...

Genos Drawbars Project (hopefully the 2 photos will attach OK!)

Jim

Very kool idea looks nice also. ....
maybe Yamaha will see it and incorporate it soon on Genos 2?...

Jim, Cool idea it looks good the colors makes them look more realistic.

Good idea
Looks excellent

Showed the pictures to Peter Baartmans today at a demo in Holland
He loved them.,

They would have even be better with the orriginal print on them

https://goo.gl/images/8Mw52z

Those real Hammond ones look nice - I wonder if one could buy a set directly from Hammond, and if they would fit on Genos? Probably not :-)

I'm going to do a 2nd set of drawbars like this and maybe I'll experiment a bit.

I thought about adding the markings on the front - it would be easy to add the "whole numbers" (16,8,4,2,1) but I wouldn't have the skill/tools to add the smaller text for harmonics (the "2/3" and such) and have them look good . . . maybe I'll add the whole #'s only and see how it looks?!

Thanks,
Jim

Hmm, I see that Hammond had some models with no labels at all (I wonder when they added the labels - or it they were just on some models?

-Jim (see photo)

I don’t know Jim, i am not a hammond expert
But i found quite a few photos with numers on them..

For me personally, just the colors is real touch enough..

Hi - yeah, I've seen Hammonds both ways (with and without numbers on the ends of the drawbars. It would be a nice addition if I could figure out a way to do such tiny print in such a way that it looked good!

Some had asked (here and in another of my threads) for photos of the work in progress ... attaching a few photos of my work on my 2nd Genos, which I did a similar project on ... drawbar painting, and knobs with white line added. Photos below . . .

(I realized when I looked at these photos that I need to dust/clean my Genos panel!)

This time around, I tried a darker brown; closer to Hammond's brown, but I may re-paint them later to a slightly lighter brown ...

The big "2" on one slider has to do with non-drawbar mode (this slider affects volume of Right 2). I did that to help me find the right sliders for vol adjustments in that mode).

Jim