Pistantan Posted November 21, 2002 Report Share Posted November 21, 2002 Hey, This is my first post so be kind Since I visited this site for the first time, this was last week, I've commited myself into building my own guitar as soon as I can afford it / feel secure to do it. While planing on the possible models I could base on, it came to me an idea. I one saw a review to a Yamaha model, not sure but It was some baritone model supposed to be tuned to B,anyway, this model had this switch that overrided the settings you had, I mean imagine you were playing with your neck pickup at half volume, if you fliped the switch it would switch to bridge pickup FULL VOLUME!! That is really cool and very handy for the kind of music I play... Is there anyway I can buy this switch or make on to put it on my up and coming Custom homemade Guitar? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted November 21, 2002 Report Share Posted November 21, 2002 Welcome to the forum Pistantan This post save's me from starting it down in Brian's mail bag Anyway I think (I'm not positive) that what your going after is a variation of this wiring mod. I think that mod is also possible by using concentric pots to change your output (by push pull instead of flipping a switch), just depends on if we can get a skillful wiring tech in here. to explain it all to you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jehle Posted November 21, 2002 Report Share Posted November 21, 2002 That's an interesting idea. I've been rewiring guitars for many years and I've never done an override switch like that. What I have done is replace the middle tone pot on the strat with a rotary switch which works with the middle position of the 5-pos toggle. All kinds of weird things are possible there. But, the 1st and 5th positions are the "default" neck and bridge PU's. I like the idea of overriding the volume knob as well. That's a cool idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GEdwardJones Posted November 21, 2002 Report Share Posted November 21, 2002 That's an interesting idea. I've been rewiring guitars for many years and I've never done an override switch like that. What I have done is replace the middle tone pot on the strat with a rotary switch which works with the middle position of the 5-pos toggle. All kinds of weird things are possible there. But, the 1st and 5th positions are the "default" neck and bridge PU's. I like the idea of overriding the volume knob as well. That's a cool idea. Sodowsky guitars has been doing it for years. They call it the "Blower Switch." I'm almost tempted to go to MARS and buy a $200 Yamaha just to take a picture of the wiring Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistantan Posted November 21, 2002 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2002 Brian maybe that's something like that, but I really wanted to switch to bridge and volume full nothing else, all the rest I want to remain the same... know what I mean? Just an extra switch... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cerealk Posted November 22, 2002 Report Share Posted November 22, 2002 Welcome to the forum! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistantan Posted November 24, 2002 Author Report Share Posted November 24, 2002 Hey guys, I've been browsing my guitar mags colection and finally found the one I was looking for... The guitar I was talking about is a Yamaha RGX 420S-D6. As far as the guitar quality goes I don't know if it's a good / bad guitar... But this switch is very handy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted November 25, 2002 Report Share Posted November 25, 2002 Tried to find in on their website and could only come up with the model RGX 640 which didn't show the feature Wish I could help ya......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GEdwardJones Posted November 25, 2002 Report Share Posted November 25, 2002 Like many Yamahas they came and were put on clearance in like 30 seconds. MARS had them for $199 - $299 a little while back and with everyone selling old MARS inventory at firesale prices you can probably find them cheaper than that. They seemed to be solid guitars similar to hte RG520 and they could be bought in "Drop6" baritone scale length. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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