Explorer room problem

[CeeJay 0]

Since my last topic i ran into a new issue, do explorers really have enough room to put the switch where the neck volume was?

I like explorers better with just two shafts and the switch where the volume should be, so can I do this?

[leif 0]

there's a place for at least a pot there,so a toggle switch should fit.If the original gibson switch doesn't,smaller ones are available at low price.I bet you have a soldering iron and know how to use it?!

[veeman 6]

There is room, I did it with my 76 Explorer. You will have to ream out the hole just a hair tho.

[CeeJay 0]

there's a place for at least a pot there,so a toggle switch should fit.If the original gibson switch doesn't,smaller ones are available at low price.I bet you have a soldering iron and know how to use it?!

 

Indeed I have one and I do know how to use it.

[Vega1 28]

There is room, I did it with my 76 Explorer. You will have to ream out the hole just a hair tho.

 

Very nice!

 

Sorry just wanted to add that... carry on

[Wild_Rose 8]

wow gorgeous!!

[CeeJay 0]

There is room, I did it with my 76 Explorer. You will have to ream out the hole just a hair tho.

 

Just one thing i forgot to ask. where did you get the pick guard with no toggle switch hole? did you make it by yourself?

[veeman 6]

Just one thing i forgot to ask. where did you get the pick guard with no toggle switch hole? did you make it by yourself?

 

I had mine made at Pickguard Heaven AKA Chandler. http://pickguards.us/priceexplorer.html

 

I much prefer the toogle switch close by rather than way out front on the horn.

[Estes 0]

Hey VeeMan.

 

That is a great looking Explorer, and great photo at that rate!

I wanted to ask you if you did the electronics with the push-pull pots to have a tone control along with volume on both Humbuckers, or exactly what the two pots are set up to control?

I want to do a wiring set-up of an in series but to have a tone pot on each pick-up like a les Paul...was contemplating using a router to enlarge the cavity in back to accept a 4th pot but then I stumbled onto a page on Jimmy Page's #1 and #2 1959 Les Pauls' specs with push-pull pots.

I dont know if these can be set up for a volume/tone per pot yet, but now I know they exist I was curious if thats what you did in relocating your selector switch?

 

Thanks.

[veeman 6]

They are just simple CTS 500K pots, 1 volume, 1 tone. Nothing fancy, no push/pulls.