Reverse control plate?

Any opinions/ advice/ whatever? How big of a pain is it to flip everything around? Not 100% about it yet, but I'm thinking flipping everything around would make volume swells and tone-knob wah a LOT easier...I think it looks weird, personally,but I'm going for function and it's kinda difficult to get a good grip on the tone knob with my pinky and still keep my picking hand in playing position...

(I apologize in advance if there's been discussion of this already that I missed...)

I had mine done , didn't do it myself. I like it better reversed, but if you're thinking about reaching the tone knob more easily, it won't help because that knob will still be in the middle. Also, tone swells in the neck pickup position are difficult because there's no room for your finger between the tone knob and pickup selector switch. You can just unscrew and reverse it without changing the electronics, and I did that for awhile, but thats kinda weird cause everything's reversed.

but I'm thinking flipping everything around would make volume swells and tone-knob wah a LOT easier.



1st off you should determine which feature you would use the most...Vol. Swells or Tone wahs...then engineer it so that knob is at the Top....To do it correctly it should be rewired...not a Huge deal.

1st off you should determine which feature you would use the most...Vol. Swells or Tone wahs...then engineer it so that knob is at the Top....To do it correctly it should be rewired...not a Huge deal.

And what would be the best pot to use to get those Gatton-like tone swells??
Thanks....

And what would be the best pot to use to get those Gatton-like tone swells??
Thanks....

I asked that same question recently. I was told a 1 meg no load is good for that. I have not had a chance to try it yet though.

I do all my scratch builds with the plate flipped the other way around.
I also changed my Squier Tele so its the other way around as well.
But I left my '73 stock.

I prefer the switch at the back where I won't knock it accidentally.

1st off you should determine which feature you would use the most...Vol. Swells or Tone wahs...then engineer it so that knob is at the Top....To do it correctly it should be rewired...not a Huge deal.


Yup.
Took me all of 10-15 minutes to de-solder and re-solder.
No biggie for sure.

I should flip mine for the benefit...

While I've reversed the control plate on a couple of guitars for some of the reasons described above, I have found that the lead wires on the neck pickup can sometimes be too short to reach the new location of the switch, or at best, leaving very little slack to play with. You may need to add short extension wires for this to work. It's a little messy, but it'll do the job.

Think I'm gonna try it on my Baja first before messing with my '76. I'm a little confused about how the tone knob will be just as hard to reach though...in th emiddle is still closer than all the way back!

Yeah, I guess I really didn't think about what I was saying there. I should have said that the tone knob will be where the volume knob is now. So you're right, it will be closer.