Great guide; and I'm happy to prod projects! I'll probably tear a few more pots up to see if a good detent scheme is floating around.

This has also reinvigorated me to finally order my single toggle control boards for my own sustainer and see that project through.

This just came in guys... There are plenty of settings I will have to spend some time to make it "compatible" with my playing, but, yeah, this will be a very useful tool. Very cool! Yeah I think for any guitarist getting into midi there are some compromises you have to make (learning pian...

Not sure what year you've got, but I've considered using the push button from the prerefined as a battery switch as I never really use my piezo and mag pickups at the same time. Similarly, on my refined I use a push pot to do the work. I have some rubber knobs on it that definitely have enough frict...

I've have two systems currently (triple play & a rmc poly drive -> gp10.) The latter is in a fly and the former a godin. The GP10 is nice since I can run each of the string channels into my daw and do pitch to midi in jam origin per string, or use the onboard midi from the gp10. There's always d...

How is the sustainer driver performing at that distance from the strings? Of course I hadn't connected my reds and blacks on my sustainer properly... but it works and it definitely has enough gain! I had to turn it down a little bit as well from whatever setting came with. I've some some slight war...

Thanks! I am a bit picky in my wiring and like things to be clean so I can track things easier when problems come up. As for the sustainer: driver is about 5mm from the strings. I just slapped a battery in and didn't get much of anything, so it needs something but I don't know what yet. My first gue...

Here's the aforementioned update: The guitar is done except for the new backplate, and testing/powering the sustainer. That part will come in time, once I get around to printing the new backplate. Here are the pictures: PXL_20240204_174255586 (Large).jpg PXL_20240204_174227689 (Large).jpg (just igno...

After talking to mmmguitar about controlling a sustainiac on a single control, I put together an idea for a circuitboard to balance flexibilty and simplicity for controlling the sustainer with one switch. Taking a Dimarzio 4PDT Three position switch , 3 DIP switches which can be switched by accessin...

From the data sheets, it seems like the pots can come with rotary on/off switch already installed: https://tocos.com/uploads/media/products/0001/01/107133ff922c1f9fe3d79e9447b7bd229c7c0dd4.pdf The ones on the listing you provided and the picture look a lot like those. The white piece seems to indica...

Not to put you off kitbashing, but it likely will be good enough, or just bad enough to get your gears turning. All that being said, I'm curious how the pots are fused in the Belew, and if it is applicable to more available parts. Mostly, I'm curious how the push pull still functions; I didn't think...

my "ideal" scheme would include the Belew switching tone pot; so the Sustainiac functions could be consolidated to a single control - Alas, constructing one is currently a backburner project for me. Well, the cheap version would be to get a dual gang push pull, tear it apart, scratch off ...

Hey @vjmanzo, I would also be interested in a more direct download. I'd like to make a large circuit board and it would be very convenient to have a modeled version to compare with

Before you sell this, I'd love to see the wiring, at least archived here. This fly really fits a lot of my own idiosyncrasies, and I've been heavily inspired by it over the course of my own project. I think I echo your sentiment with the tinkering: it just doesn't become my guitar until I've monkeye...

Howdy fly folks, it's been a minute! Turns out grad school is time consuming. I'm still chipping away at my fly though (almost literally!) In the time since my last post I've done the needed woodwork on the guitar and am in the middle of wiring it up! Something useful for those of you who are going ...

Looks like a solid set of choices. You won't be sorry about choosing RMC. I think you can skip the S2. Synth/Mix/Guitar switch... I considered it! But I've got two switch holes there, and without it, only one of them is used. In this case, I decided that it is easy to add that control on, and if I ...

After almost a month, I'm back. As an update, I've got about all the parts I want for the project, other than some last idle thoughts rolling around in my head. I've received my Sustainer and I ended up ordering a Polydrive from RMC, which was an old shcool process but fairly quick for those who may...

If it's up in a year from now I'd love to be the person who'd actually play and enjoy it but not for the "join em" reverb price

That being said, I'm sure you could "lift" some language of how you'll never see one of these again or whatever ballyhoo those 20k listings have.

Ah makes sense. Seems like a lot of work, given you probably have the thread the baseplate to get those to properly hold it . Especially for something you set once and forget about. All that being said this Belew has definitely made me think alot about what's achievable technology to throw onboard a...

I ask simple because while talking to Alan, he brought up an old stock driver which was apparently for the fly:

But yes, it didn't seem immediately better than just using tape.

Not to bring you into the process of tearing that guy apart, but I'm curious how they ended up mounting that sustainer in there. When you do get there on this guitar, I'd love to know.