SWITCHTASTIC

As long as we’ve had the electric guitar there have been two main types of pickup selector switch most commonly in use: the ‘Gibson-style’ toggle switch, and the ‘Fender-style’ lever or blade switch. You can count the other types of pickup selector switches used in the past 60-something years on the fingers of your left hand. These are very basic switches that have barely changed at all. Today, we have more varieties of these ‘standard’ switches than we did back in the 1950s, and that includes a price scale from touring pro to starter quality.

The three-position (or three-way) toggle switch is typically used on a twin-pickup