I like building single pickup guitars without any switches. Here’s why: A standard single-pickup style guitar with a 3-way switch is capable of the following: |
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| Position 1: Bridge pickup with NO tone control | |
| Position 2: Bridge pickup WITH tone control | |
| Position 3: Bridge pickup with the treble heavily rolled off (NO tone control) | |
| The “Eldred” mod is capable of this: | |
| Position 1: Pickup only w/o tone control | |
| Position 2: Pickup + tone control | |
| Position 3: Pickup with fixed tone cap | |
| If you don’t want the tone, simply roll it off ! | |
| There is no point in having a switch with a single-pickup guitar - you gain nothing you can’t get with your volume and tone knobs at the cost of an additional source of leakage in your circuit.. | |
| You don’t need a switch on your single-pickup guitar... | |
| Just something to think about... | |
