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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.
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Post by newey on Jun 12, 2024 5:25:12 GMT -5
I hope to make the guitar before my atoms get recycled. Your atoms are being continuously recycled now. ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png) The one option I could think of here would be to get a cheap "mule guitar" for this and mount the buttons into the edge of the body, along the upper bout, by routing out an appropriately-sized rectangle and then drilling a channel through to the pickup rout for the wires to traverse. Probably have to sand a flat area along the edge as well, given the curvature there. Lots of woodworking but the buttons would be out of the way. Maybe use a Vee style body or similar so you didn't have a curve along the edge to deal with.
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Post by stevewf on Jun 12, 2024 13:07:27 GMT -5
Your atoms are being continuously recycled now. ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png) I try to clean them before returning them in hopes of getting my deposit back. Good thought. Or an Explorer, I guess. For that matter, there's even a length of straight edge on the "inside" of the lower horn of the Explorer... Another option, which I discarded, was to mount the switch assembly slanted. I discarded that idea because the caps would surely be prone to snagging and yanking, and it'd hog up a strat cavity anyway.
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