I caved to a modification

[danktat]

So, after playing out with this guitar over the weekend, I realized that I am MUCH more comfortable with the three way toggle and push pull pot than I am the five way rotary. So I (the anti-mod) collapsed and bought an OEM toggle set up from John Mann and took it to my luthier to have it installed this morning. *sigh*.

It does appear as though making that switch (pun intended) might give me cancer.....at least according to the packaging on the electronics.

 

[garrett]

It does appear as though making that switch (pun intended) might give me cancer.

Only in California. You're in PA, so you're safe.


That's a great example of a worthwhile functional modification to better suit the player's needs. (Win for the modders!)

 

[dmatthews]

I don't have a rotary guitar to compare, but the movie running in my tiny mind agrees that a 3-way with push/pull works for me.

 

[danktat]

I don't have a rotary guitar to compare, but the movie running in my tiny mind agrees that a 3-way with push/pull works for me.

I've had two of each. And in a bedroom, where there is time to play around with it, I am clumsier with the rotary but it isn't a big enough deal to worry about. Live, I am clumsy enough WITHOUT having to figure out the rotary. So anything to minimize the amount of thinking (or overthinking as the case may be) will be helpful.

 

[sergiodeblanc]

Oh Nose! The resale value is GONE now!!!!!

 

[danktat]

Oh Nose! The resale value is GONE now!!!!!

I AM KEEPING THE ORIGINALS!!!!

 

[sergiodeblanc]

I AM KEEPING THE ORIGINALS!!!!

Hey! THERE’S NO WASHER ON THIS SWEET SWITCH!!!!! IT’S TRASH!!!!

 

[Black Plaid]

Not sure if I said it before, but that is a truly lovely axe!

 

[danktat]

Not sure if I said it before, but that is a truly lovely axe!

Thanks....got a REALLY good deal on it a little while back in Reverb. Pretty minty condition for a 2001.

 

[Rockmark]

I've had two changed over to 3 way but the California cancer warning scared the hell out of me so I sent my guitars in to PRS for them to do. I feel much safer now.

 

[Lister]

The first mod is always the hardest...

 

[bodia]

GASP!!!!!!!!! THE HYPOCRISY!!!!!!!!!!!

That's a mod I've made a time, or two!

 

[pauloqs]

I made that mode as well and I couldn't be happier. You got some really nice tones with the 5-way rotary, but the switching system just wasn't for me. It was too intricate for when I was playing with others. I'm in CA and din't read the warning though. Does that mean I have cancer now? Since it's probably already too late for me, I might as well just get a pack of smokes or something.

 

[vchizzle]

I keep a rotary in my parts drawer just in case. I much prefer the toggle as well. I think I’ve changed back to the rotary approximately once per decade. Then I put the toggle back in. Totally get it in a live setting. That’s the reason I switched it out in the first place too.

 

[Ryan Murphy]

I feel like playing a guitar without a 3 or 5 way switch is like leaving you house without any underwear.

 

[jvin248]

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Who was the guy that said 'look at my vintage guitar' it's had three necks that were worn out and two bodies?

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[Tone-y]

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Who was the guy that said 'look at my vintage guitar' it's had three necks that were worn out and two bodies?

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in the UK this is referred to as the 'Trigger's broom joke'.

 

[László]

I feel like playing a guitar without a 3 or 5 way switch is like leaving you house without any underwear.

Two signs of a truly civilized society: Ergonomics, and underwear.

Going commando or using rotary switches on guitars is uncivilized.

The ancient Roman legions wore underwear; they’ve dug up evidence of it in bogs in ancient Roman ruins along Hadrian’s Wall. No wonder they were so effective. They also had plumbing and glass windows. No huts made of straw and sticks stuck together with mud and dung for those guys!

They’d have had 3 & 5-way switches, too, if only they’d had the good sense to harness electricity and invent electric guitars.

I have no doubt that had that happened, there’d have been none of this “fall of the Roman Empire” stuff.

 

[John Beef]

I sung the praises of the rotary for a long time, and kept it for years, but I eventually caved and made the switch. Not looking back.

 

[sergiodeblanc]

Going commando or using rotary switches on guitars is uncivilized.

I’d have to disagree with the second half of that.

Using a rotary switch is like performing a Japanese tea ceremony, and requires a couple years of finishing school to learn how to operate.