While this is still undoubtedly sad news and everyone who passes deserves to be remembered, is there a specific reason you bumped this obituary thread from 2016?
It's the knurled ring around the switch. On my monitor the color is such that I mistook it for ivoroid (or equivalent) and not gold.
The poker chip was just a reference to the way you can add/swap the "lead/rhythm" indicator ring around the standard LP switch without having to desolder/resolder anything.
Wait a sec... We need to talk about the fact that the switch ring in that shot has binding on it. Is that a thing? It's definitely not on my Shishkov. Can you add that aftermarket like a poker chip or do you have to swap out the whole switch?
Also, thank you again Mike.
I got two this morning:
1. The less I'm playing, the more I browse reverb.com
2. If I'm shopping for a piece of gear and I can't make a decision between the alternatives, it means I don't need it that badly.
New strings arrived for my Boden 8. The ones that are on there are still surprisingly fresh given it's almost all I've played for 6 months. I caved and got the recommended strings from Strandberg which are a custom balanced tension set from a collaboration with GHS.
Pricier than I would have liked (no free shipping), but looking forward to the string change tho.
After geeking out on the Daft Punk stuff on the Tron soundtrack, I stumbled on Dynatron...
Also, I'm not generally much of a prog guy, but a bandmate is really into Haken: