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Many guitars have a re-sale value. Some you'll never want to sell.
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I’m too far to make the trip to your site, more’s the pity!
If not, is this the type of switch?
https://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/Guitarworks-Mini-Toggle-Guitar-Switch-Chrome/1BSN
You don't need to break the ground connection, it makes no difference if the signal path is routed directly to the jack.
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I thought the Fender switch was mounted on a bracket that clamps under two of the pots, not glued on? I could be wrong about that as well though!
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Many guitars have a re-sale value. Some you'll never want to sell.
Stockist of: Earvana & Graphtech nuts, Faber Tonepros & Gotoh hardware, Fatcat bridges. Highwood Saddles.
Pickups from BKP, Oil City & Monty's pickups.
Expert guitar repairs and upgrades - fretwork our speciality! www.felineguitars.com. Facebook too!
Conventional controls in self-powered (passive) pickups reduce the volume level by bleeding a portion of the output signal to ground. Rotating the knob counterclockwise increases the portion that is connected to ground, thus reducing the output level until it is fully grounded and the volume is zero. However, when the knob is rotated fully clockwise for maximum volume, there is still a portion of the signal that bleeds to ground, and as a result the output level never reaches the full level the pickup would achieve if it were wired directly to the output jack.
The JackPot’s rotary switch clicks open when the knob reaches the end of its full on (clockwise) rotation. The open switch lifts the ground to the pot, eliminating the load on the pickups and allowing the full signal to reach the output jack. When the knob is rotated counterclockwise, the ground to the pot is reconnected so the pot returns to standard operation. In this mode the sound and function are exactly the same as an ordinary control.
With the JackPot, players can run full on, with the pickups wired directly to the output jack, yet still have a trusty volume knob to back off instantly to a lower level when needed.
Many guitars have a re-sale value. Some you'll never want to sell.
Stockist of: Earvana & Graphtech nuts, Faber Tonepros & Gotoh hardware, Fatcat bridges. Highwood Saddles.
Pickups from BKP, Oil City & Monty's pickups.
Expert guitar repairs and upgrades - fretwork our speciality! www.felineguitars.com. Facebook too!
That Buckeroo wiring is quite complicated! Although of course by making it complex on the inside it makes it simple and intuitive to use on the outside.
But one thing that puzzles me is why people consistently wire bypass switching like this wrongly - not just for this application, it's the standard way of wiring true bypass pedals as well... they run the bypass path through *both* switch poles in series - the straight jumper wire across the end of the switch. This simply increases unreliability, since a failure in *either* switch pole breaks the signal path. Instead of a wire joining both end terminals, it should be only one of them to the opposite middle terminal. You can actually make it even more reliable by connecting them in parallel instead, with an 'x' linkage - that then requires a failure in both poles at the same time to stop it working. It's just a little detail and doesn't make any difference most of the time - but it really would at a gig if you click to 'solo' and get... silence.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein