About me

490 Designs started as an experiment in my Tucson workshop, where I’ve been building knives and custom projects for years. I made my first knobs for my own guitars, just to see if I could create something better than the mass-produced options out there. Word spread, and now thousands of musicians and makers worldwide trust my parts. Every piece is still machined, finished, and checked by me — no shortcuts, no outsourcing. Just clean, precise hardware designed to last.