Resurrection time!
A friend of mine bought a 1964 EB2 the other day.
I told him about the three way toggle that Joe installed to use the fully engaged Mudbucker in all its glory.
Now he's asking me if I could do the modification for him. But I'm afraid all the pics in this thread have been photobucketed...
Can anybody help maybe? Joe?
Rob- here's the one post summary
For an EB2/Rivoli, this depicts the tone switch mod:
I'll add the EB2D version here too - in case it helps anyone in the future:
This pic details the switching behavior. Note that in the middle "choke bypass" position, one throw on the DPDT switch should not engage (between lugs 5 and 6 on the pic):
That throws a bit of a curve, since some DPDT toggles won't function this way. It would require one with an "on-off-on" center position.
I opted to use a
triple-pickup Les Paul toggle, and bent one of the pins in such a way that it supports that switching behavior.
The pins are numbered 1-6, starting at the top. The goal is to make is to make it so that pin #4 never comes in contact with #5 when in the middle position – otherwise, it would give the original unchoked mode as opposed to the desired bypass mode.
Pic below will explain that modification visually:
I liked the look of that switch better anyway, and if I recall it was a pretty close fit in the hole from the original pushbutton:
Hope that helps, and reach out if you still have questions.