BrianSierakowski

Meh, i think that the number of people who want to have locked in volume when they play are greater then people who want to create dynamics with their volume/tone knob.

I should be able to go buy that guitar, you should be the one getting the info to make a custom guitar with knobs that poke out, hahaha !

Ah, holy crap! That's amazing!

However, its seemingly more skill then I would be able to work with.

Why don't they make all guitars like that? that seems like such a better design. Who wants their knobs to actually stick out?

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I used to move the volume knobs on my stage guitars... Now on my customs (for myself) I make sure the volume knob is not in the swing path of the hand....

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Where do you move them to? Further up or down? Above the strings?

Ok, so how about placement of the switch?

Knobs are usually on the lower right hand side of the guitar for ease of use, but in this installation we need it to be easy to use, but NOT easy to accidentally use.

For example, I don't want to accidentally hit the switch while I'm jumping around on stage... but if I'm in that perfectly wrong position or the volume on the amp is too high, I want to be able to cut the volume before feedback takes over!

I was thinking of either having them in the traditional space for tone / volume knobs, just with the cool aircraft switch as mentioned above, or putting it up top left like where les paul pickup selectors are.

I don't want the switch to overpower the design, and I don't want to have to worry about any sort of cover on the switch flapping around as I'm moving (i'm pretty violent).

Also, as this is my first design, do you think it would be easier to use a passive pickup to eliminate the extra wiring and routing for the battery?

Thanks so much everyone for your input!!

It's not a bad idea and it can definitely be done with a kill switch. It'd actually be a lot easier to do than normal wiring.

If you want a little more versatility, just in case, you can have the tone and/or volume knobs and a kill switch, but have a another switch that can lock the volume and tone. That would take someone who really knows their wiring, but it's possible.

The easiest way would be just having the kill switch. That seems to be what you want anyhow. It's definitely been done before, though it's usually a custom job.

Would a switch like one of these work: http://www.kpsec.freeuk.com/components/switch.htm ?

Also, how would the wiring work if there is no tone knob? Is having the wire connected straight through the same as having the tone knob turned all the way up?

Thanks!!

-Brian

Hey all, I had a bit of an off the wall idea for a custom guitar, I wanted to run it by a group of people who know a lot more then I do about the topic.

The basic concept of the guitar will be my live setup, when I play live (currently on a ESP LTD MH400NT), I'm in a metal band, so I'm always on the bridge position, tone all the way up, volume all the way up. That is until I inevitably brush the tone or volume knob (or god forbid the pickup selector) and my hard earned tone and gain is squandered until I realize and fix it.

The idea for the guitar is to always have me locked into what I want, that means 1 emg pickup in the bridge position, no pickup selector (obviously), no tone knob (tone should always be all the way up), and instead of a volume knob I'd like an on/off switch. I of course will take it to my local artist to have some intricate line work done on it before its finished, just so it can be that much more special, lol.

Thoughts? Is this a really bad idea? I realize that once the guitar is done, I do not have an option to customize the tone except on the amp. Has the on/off switch been done before? Is it noisy?

Does anyone have any suggestions about how this would be best accomplished? I was thinking of getting the body and neck from warmoth, having them route it to spec, and then do the rest of the wiring myself, is that a bad idea too?

Any feedback would be great,

Thanks!

-Brian