Post by stevewf on Jun 12, 2024 1:31:09 GMT -5
Here's another update. Somewhat discouraging.
tldr: this one's on ice for now.
I now own a few different configurations of interlocking pushbutton switches. They're all 4PDT, with varying numbers of stations.
I also have some single self-latching 6PDT pushbutton switches of similar type.
It had been my hope to get them into a strat-style guitar, but they're too big for the standard depth of 36mm (in a 44mm thick body). Even if I made the cavity deeper, there's not enough space. It's because of the shape of the pushbutton unit.
Size: from the top of the mounting bracket to the bottom of the column is 36.5mm. But there's more.
I want to have the pushbutton cap positioned so that it's always protected by the pickguard, i.e. so that the bottom of the cap would never be exposed outside of the pickguard. That's to avoid the cap getting snagged on something and getting yanked out. So the mounting of the unit has to take that depth into account, which is another 8.5mm. In other words, to protect the cap from getting snagged, I'd need to put a 8.5mm spacer between the underside of the pickguard and the top face of the switch's mounting bracket. Now we're up to 45mm of depth. There'd be a hole clrae through the poor strat, and switches would be sticking out of the back. Talk about buckle rash!
And that's for the 4PDT switches. I also need to stuff one of the 6PDT monsters in there, which is of course far too deep to fit in a strat.
So rather than start a new thread as mentioned in an earlier post, this one's gonna wait until I get a thicker guitar, maybe another hollowbody. But the odds are poor - they usually already have holes in 'em that won't match what I want. And I'm not gonna put holes in my "Rockabilly" kit that I built from the now-defunct fretwire.com; hey that makes it a collector's item!
But I still really think it'd be a cool, funky thing. Even more so on a hollow-body guitar. So I thank everyone for the input, and I hope to make the guitar before my atoms get recycled.
tldr: this one's on ice for now.
I now own a few different configurations of interlocking pushbutton switches. They're all 4PDT, with varying numbers of stations.
I also have some single self-latching 6PDT pushbutton switches of similar type.
It had been my hope to get them into a strat-style guitar, but they're too big for the standard depth of 36mm (in a 44mm thick body). Even if I made the cavity deeper, there's not enough space. It's because of the shape of the pushbutton unit.
Size: from the top of the mounting bracket to the bottom of the column is 36.5mm. But there's more.
I want to have the pushbutton cap positioned so that it's always protected by the pickguard, i.e. so that the bottom of the cap would never be exposed outside of the pickguard. That's to avoid the cap getting snagged on something and getting yanked out. So the mounting of the unit has to take that depth into account, which is another 8.5mm. In other words, to protect the cap from getting snagged, I'd need to put a 8.5mm spacer between the underside of the pickguard and the top face of the switch's mounting bracket. Now we're up to 45mm of depth. There'd be a hole clrae through the poor strat, and switches would be sticking out of the back. Talk about buckle rash!
And that's for the 4PDT switches. I also need to stuff one of the 6PDT monsters in there, which is of course far too deep to fit in a strat.
So rather than start a new thread as mentioned in an earlier post, this one's gonna wait until I get a thicker guitar, maybe another hollowbody. But the odds are poor - they usually already have holes in 'em that won't match what I want. And I'm not gonna put holes in my "Rockabilly" kit that I built from the now-defunct fretwire.com; hey that makes it a collector's item!
But I still really think it'd be a cool, funky thing. Even more so on a hollow-body guitar. So I thank everyone for the input, and I hope to make the guitar before my atoms get recycled.
