Vintage Fender Footswitch Undrilled Enclosure

[Dares]

Can't get my mind off of it,
One of a future build must be done with one of those Vintage Fender Footswitch, because they look so cool !
Do you have an idea where I could find an undrllled one ?
Hours of research, no luck...
Grateful for any hints !

[smallbearelec]

http://www.smallbear-electronics.mybigcommerce.com/footswitch-boxes-drilled-and-undrilled/

[PRR]

I understood "vintage Fender" as the teeny cake-dishes, not rounded boxes.


I would assume the "dishes" are stamped and punched in the same factory, possibly in one operation. IAC that factory is now on the other side of the world, not a side-street in Fullerton Calif like in 1959.

Any good car body fixer can take a holey footswitch stamping, weld up the holes, grind flat; then send it out to be fine-finished, stripped, and re-chromed. Same as restoring a fender or bumper on a vintage collectable car. Will cost a LOT.

If it does not have to be totally foot-proof.... whack and rasp a block of oak to that shape. Get hobby aluminum sheet and a ballpeen hammer. Start tapping. Quite amazing work can be done this way. Whole Italian cars! But good work may only happen after a 7 year apprenticeship....

[PRR]

https://www.golfcarcatalog.com/products.php?product=6-inch-Chrome-Baby-Moon-Golf-Cart-Hub-Caps


https://www.speedwaymotors.com/Pedal-Car-Parts-Murray-Smooth-Chrome-Hubcap-4-Inch-Diameter,55284.html


An 8-inch chrome dome hubcap is VERY common on large US trucks. (It must be the size of the standard ugly axle flange.)

[Rob Strand]

Can't get my mind off of it,
One of a future build must be done with one of those Vintage Fender Footswitch, because they look so cool !
Do you have an idea where I could find an undrllled one ?

What about using a metal pie dish or one of those metal dog/cat bowls?

Peavey used pressed metal footswitches at some point.  The pressed metal edge slotted into an edge-slit around the rim of the (custom) plastic back.

Any good car body fixer can take a holey footswitch stamping, weld up the holes, grind flat; then send it out to be fine-finished, stripped, and re-chromed. Same as restoring a fender or bumper on a vintage collectable car. Will cost a LOT.

Fender footswitch? So what part of a fender is the footswitch.

[Rob Strand]

https://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&biw=1280&bih=933&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=AFDhWsahAcH88AWF9IeABw&q=conical+metal+bowl&oq=conical+metal+bowl

[Dares]

Thanks a lot guys for all the inspiring replies !
So yes indeed, it's gonna have to be something different to do the job !

[Paul Marossy]

I found a round chrome lid to some kind of kitchen gadget at a thrift store once, it would have made a great tremolo on/off switch but I put a two knob dirt pedal in it. It was about 4" in diameter. The only hard part was fabricating a bottom for it.