6-Way Switch Review!

[eallen]

EDIT/UPDATE!

I mistakenly posted the NON-WORKING diagram in the original post. I updated it to the correct diagram. Deaf Eddy also indicated the jumper from 0 to 7 on the drawing is not needed. Here it is again & my apologies!

Eric

 

[wabashslim]

I agree also! I don't like 4 or 5 way switches. A 6-way blade would hurt my head. In the heat of a gig I want the switch to go back - middle - front and nothing harder to find than that. (For the same reason I just want master volume & tone.)
My 3-pickup guitar (Shergold Masquerader, which has a Tele bridge & Strat middle and neck pickups) came with a 5 way switch and I rewired it to have a 3 way traditional Strat switch (one pickup per position) and a push-pull tone pot to swap over to the 3 2-pickup combos (B+N, B+M, M+N).

Guys like you must have a helluva time operating a toaster oven.

 

[AAT65]

Guys like you must have a helluva time operating a toaster oven.

Well I don't even know what a toaster oven is, but if it's kitchen equipment I don't think you'd need to change the settings between one beat and the next while the stage lights are getting in your eyes...

 

[R. Stratenstein]

I just finished this monstrosity for a good friend as an experiment and what a nightmare to wire. I doubled up two J bass pickups and made them into humbuckers. The 2 volumes are push/pull and one is for coil splitting and the other is master series/parallel. Plus it has a pickup switch. My buddy says the different tones are infinite and all sound great but he's already picked out only a few. Personally I just don't see the need but I'm a traditionalist when it comes to guitars.

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I wouldn’t call that a monstrosity!

 

[solfege]

Yeah I went through a bit of craziness trying to figure out what to do with one of these on a Strat I was putting together. I might still rewire it again, but I've got it working and I enjoy it. But I happened to use an old school Strat pickguard with countersunk screws and that probably made things work a bit better from the POV of switch travel. Had to expand the notch pretty much almost to the screw holes on both ends in any event.

 

[crazydave911]

I wouldn’t call that a monstrosity!

Damn good to see ya boy!

 

[RickyRicardo]

I wouldn’t call that a monstrosity!

Rick! Nice to see you here!. I call it a monstrosity because I was seriously jinxed with that build. Everything went wrong. From refinishing to the wiring.

 

[R. Stratenstein]

Damn good to see ya boy!

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Howdy, Dave, great to see you’re still building!

Rick! Nice to see you here!. I call it a monstrosity because I was seriously jinxed with that build. Everything went wrong. From refinishing to the wiring.

Ahh, now it’s clear, I’ve had a few like that meself. Glad to see you on the ole forum, also.