Guitar Killswitch

Step 5 Drilling the hole in the faceplate

This is the point of no return for this project.

Now that you have your switch half completed, flip your faceplate so that the components are inside the guitar and chose an appropriate location for your killswitch on your faceplate. Using the appropriate size drill bit, drill a hole into your faceplate.

Test fit your switch to see if it can fit in. If it can, then mount the switch onto the faceplate by placing the nut included on the opposite side of the faceplate, and tightening it until the switch is secure.

Protip: Its better to chose a switch that needs only a hole to be drilled. The switch I bought needed a little notch, and I scratched my faceplate making that notch

Comments

[sglittle86]

Hey man I was just going to say that I bought the same style killswitch from radio shack, and to keep from scratching up my pick guard I just clipped that little tab with some nail clippers and smoothed out the underside of the killswitch with some fine sandpaper. The locking nut supplied with the killswitch keeps it from twisting and coming unscrewed.

[itsachen]

nice thinking i did that when i installed a later switch actually