Talk:Switch Music company

Open questions

Are they related to Drive amps? Tonal Creations company? Based in La Mirada, CA?

Also, a picture would be great. Thanks, Maikel (talk) 02:01, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

This article will need a LOT of work to salvage it, but maybe I can help. I'll start by noting that, far as I can tell, the actual registered corporate name was SwitchMusic.com, so anything derivative was a trademark or service mark (apparently unregistered). Thus far, nobody has offered proof of who (individuals or corporations) actually owned Switch, or made the decision to hire Trev Wilkinson as designer.

The non-rosewood fretboards WERE NOT made from Ebonite, an error introduced by a catalogue copy-writer. Ebonite is hard black rubber that smells a little of sulfur, and is mostly used to make bowling balls. Ebonol is used to make fingerboards, for instance the Squier fretless Jazz Bass.

Yes, Drive was one of the brands used by the company.

And there is no obvious continuity between the brand's founding and any acquisition by Tonal Creations.

Neither tonalcreations.com nor switchmusic.com is a functioning website.
Weeb Dingle (talk) 21:17, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

The See also notes all refer to guitars (particularly electric) made from plastic/plasticized materials. While I completely understand the impulse here, it is offtrack for the article, which is about a company that merely happened to make plastic guitars. (Mostly; late on, they made wooden electric guitars AND were about to launch a line of jazzboxes.) This must go, but someone could certainly launch a Plastic guitars article!
Weeb Dingle (talk) 06:01, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for correcting and contributing to this article. That's the spirit of Wikipedia! Maikel (talk) 19:29, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Proposed deletion

Hi, I think that the subject of this article is relevant and interesting as Switch was one of the few companies using plastic rather than wood on a guitar body, equally it was manufactured by injection molding rather than carpentry. Although this was successful in terms of acoustic quality, and although the instruments were attractively priced, the company failed commercially. We can't link to the company website as it has ceased to exist. On the other hand this also means that this article can't be intended as marketing or to build company credibility. The information here is referenced by the creators best as we can given that there isn't much in the way of academic literature, which kinda comes with the territory. I have also added some inline references as requested by the deletion-proposer.

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Thank you. Maikel (talk) 08:05, 29 May 2024 (UTC)