Box Style Toggle Switch

[thehallofshields]

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?

[thehallofshields]

Will the LP style switches fit?

[andy_tchp]

Do the cheaper Box Toggle Switches fit in the cavity just the same?

No. Use the right-angle one, ideally made by Switchcraft.


And LP style switches are too long for the cavity unless they're specifically the 'straight shorty' version.

[AWSchmit]

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.

[thehallofshields]

The box one will likely fit and work. But they don't function quite as nicely as the switch craft switches.

I opened my VMJM a week ago, and I thought it was a box switch I saw. That's why I'm asking.

Function nicely:: Does that mean smoothness? Absence of a pop? No crossover time?

All I care about is reliability.

[mackerelmint]

If you want reliable, don't go cheap. Get the switchcraft.

[thehallofshields]

Just ordered the Right-Angle Switchcraft Toggle.

Thanks guys.

[andy_tchp]

The box one will likely fit and work.

My (frustrating) experience says otherwise.

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).