Re: OT: Kill switch for el guitar - design ideas?

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

Awesome idea, Ian! BTW Torn is gigging in Sweden today. Far away from
my local area though... ;-)

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.boysen.se
www.perboysen.com



On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Ian Petersen <iep@mail.dk> wrote:
> Per,
>
>> Since there are many guitar and audio wiring wizards on this list I'd
>> like to ask for ideas on kill switch playing.
>
> How about installing a metal (preferably copper) scratchplate on the 
>guitar?
> Then with a suitable multiway 'superswitch' (I'm assuming a strat style
> guitar) it would be relatively trivial to wire it so the circuit, to one 
>or
> more pickups, is completed *only* when your fingers are touching both
> strings and scratchplate.
> I believe David Torn has his Koll guitar wired in a similar fashion.
> Ian