Ernie Ball (1990's era) Volume Pedal / Mono / vintage

Ernie Ball (1990's era) Volume Pedal / Mono / vintage

Ernie Ball Mono Volume Pedal Works as it should, nice sweep on the volume range, no battery required.
Excellent condition, almost mint.

It has been professionally cleaned and adjusted recently.

Feel free to make a reasonable offer.

Pickup in Columbia SC. or I will ship it to you.

From the internet:
In 1953, Roland Sherwood Ball heard tell of an upstart radio repairman who was making pedal steels and amplifiers, and set out to Fullerton to meet Leo Fender. Ball was an instant convert to Fender’s wares and their possibilities. He not only became a Fender pedal-steel endorsee, but opened a teaching academy for budding electric guitarists, and in ’57 opened (in Tarzana) what he would later claim was the world’s first music store devoted to electric guitars.

The Ball volume pedal arrived in 1975, according to company history. The concept likely came from Ernie’s days playing pedal steel in a band; he was accustomed to the pedal controls on his “electric table,” so he built his own foot control, which allowed him to adjust volume to play solos, then ease back to play behind the band.

Ernie Ball’s Volume Pedal quickly earned a reputation for being reliable, durable, and basically indestructible. Truly, the only component that could easily break was the string, and you didn’t need to be a pro guitar tech or lab engineer to replace that. In fact, Ball received an endorsement from a customer who used his two volume pedals as car jacks; according to Ernie Ball Artist Relations and Marketing man Kevin Scoles, he carefully positioned the pedals in his driveway, and drove his automobile up onto them so he could replace an ailing starter motor.

In the early years of Dire Straits, Knopfler utilized a Morley volume pedal before switching to what became his mainstay, the venerable Ernie Ball unit. From some of the first fill licks in “Sultans Of Swing” played on his Stratocaster through the solo lines of “Brothers In Arms” with his Les Paul Standard, Knopfler used an Ernie Ball volume pedal.

Hendrix used his wah in “Voodoo Child (Slight Return).” Knopfler could enhance notes with volume surges, add dynamics to phrases, create an organ-like tone in others. The Ernie Ball Volume Pedal helped give his Les Paul a voice.

Clarostat potentiometers use standard Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA) 6- or 7-digit source-date codes. The first three digits identify the manufacturer, and the remaining digits indicate the production year and week. [1]Identifying the Code

• Clarostat Manufacturer Code: Look for 140, which is Clarostat’s assigned EIA manufacturer prefix.
• 6-Digit Codes (1947–1959): The 4th digit is the year, and the final 2 digits are the week of the year (01–52).
• 7-Digit Codes (1960s–1980s): The 4th and 5th digits are the year, and the final 2 digits are the week of the year. [1]

Decoding Examples

• Example 1402 (Early 1950s): Prefix 140 (Clarostat) followed by a single-digit year 2 (1952) and missing/obscured week info.
• Example 140-6622 (1966): Prefix 140 (Clarostat), year digits 66 (1950 or 1966 era depending on context, commonly 1966), and week 22 (22nd week of the year). [1, 2, 3]

If you can share the exact numbers stamped on your Clarostat part, I can help you break down the specific year and week of manufacture.