The Fine Things are Always Hand Made
Tags:
Not a long shot by any means.
These knobs were used on the Philharmonic and Phantom. They are around. Keep looking as they come up on e-bay every now and then. There was also a guy making reproduction knobs, but I am not sure he is around anymore.
Might I guess that this was the set that was on e-bay recently, as that set needed grill cloth and a couple of knobs?
You are talking about the pre-war 14 tube Scott Masterpiece? 11 tube receiver and 3 tube power pack.
Used the Scott wood "S" knobs.
The 2 upper, to the right and left of the tuning knob, are the "pinch style". The lower 4 knobs are round.
Alan Jesperson has nice repo version "S" knobs. Sometimes he puts a sets on eBay.
As for speaker cloth, depended on the cabinet, The only Scott repo pattern was the mid-late 1930's "M" cloth still seen into the late 1930's on cabinets like the Warrington and Accousticraft and some other cabinets - all 3 repo versions long sold out. I have also seen a gold tone musical note cloth on a late 30 Scott cabinet. So, a medium gold or gold/brown color with some kind of pattern seems appropriate to me.
I expect to have to make a similar quest soon for the Mayfair cabinet holding a Scott Masterpiece. What is left of that cloth is a gold cloth with a square pattern set at a 45 degree angle like a diamond pattern. This cloth is different from the more swirl pattern on the Mayfair photo in Scott News page 11 of Vol 11, No 4 from 1939
Richmond designs and Radio Daze may have patterns you may like. Richmond Designs has 3 possibles for me:
"Gold Diamond", "Soldier Gold" or the gold side of the reversible "Black Diamond"
Alan Jesperson http://www.alanjesperson.com
Don't see his repo "S" Scott knobs listed, but he has had them in the past.
You find your knobs? If not I have two of Jespersen's pinch repos available now. and the round, They are nice and have set screws. email me to discuss.
dcp944@yahoo.com
© 2025 Created by Kent King. Powered by