Box Style Toggle Switch
- thehallofshields
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Box Style Toggle Switch
Hey guys. After years of wanting a Jazzmaster, I finally got a VMJM. I'm going to do my own pickup/wiring scheme on a new pickguard, and I'm sourcing parts right now.
Do the cheaper Box Toggle Switches fit in the cavity just the same?
Is there any advantage to the older, Right-Angle style Toggles?
Do the cheaper Box Toggle Switches fit in the cavity just the same?
Is there any advantage to the older, Right-Angle style Toggles?
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Re: Box Style Toggle Switch
Will the LP style switches fit?
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Re: Box Style Toggle Switch
No. Use the right-angle one, ideally made by Switchcraft.thehallofshields wrote:Do the cheaper Box Toggle Switches fit in the cavity just the same?
And LP style switches are too long for the cavity unless they're specifically the 'straight shorty' version.
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Re: Box Style Toggle Switch
The straight shorty switches would work but the right angles ones are better. As said above by Switchcraft. The box one will likely fit and work. But they don't function quite as nicely as the switch craft switches.
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Re: Box Style Toggle Switch
I opened my VMJM a week ago, and I thought it was a box switch I saw. That's why I'm asking.AWSchmit wrote:The box one will likely fit and work. But they don't function quite as nicely as the switch craft switches.
Function nicely:: Does that mean smoothness? Absence of a pop? No crossover time?
All I care about is reliability.
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Re: Box Style Toggle Switch
If you want reliable, don't go cheap. Get the switchcraft.
This is an excellent rectangle
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Re: Box Style Toggle Switch
Just ordered the Right-Angle Switchcraft Toggle.
Thanks guys.
Thanks guys.
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Re: Box Style Toggle Switch
My (frustrating) experience says otherwise.AWSchmit wrote:The box one will likely fit and work.
You'd think they would but the curves of the cavity routing means there's sod-all space in there; barely enough for the switch the guitar was designed to use, and not enough for a honking rectangular box to fit in (remembering the hole in the guard dictates where it goes, there is NO wiggle room to make it work).
"I don't know why we asked him to join the band 'cause the rest of us don't like country music all that much; we just like Graham Lee."
David McComb, 1987.
David McComb, 1987.