A parts checklist for your next Warmoth build!

[aarontunes]

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[Hodgo]

Nice 101 level instruction, but I need the 201 class - how to stop losing my parts during the wait time when my wife insists the kitchen table is not a workbench.

Seriously, I need to organize my parts bins…

 

[bagman67]

Always great to learn stuff from you, Aaron. I would caution anyone following your list to make sure the knobs you select for your guitar fit the shafts on the pots. I have uttered many swear words when I have realized that I needed a knob whose inside diameter is narrower or wider or (lord help us) splined. I want to reduce the swearing that arises in the world from this particular issue.


Also: Nice 1970's Burger King commercial callback. You and I are both old.

 

[Ozopart]

Always great to learn stuff from you, Aaron. I would caution anyone following your list to make sure the knobs you select for your guitar fit the shafts on the pots. I have uttered many swear words when I have realized that I needed a knob whose inside diameter is narrower or wider or (lord help us) splined. I want to reduce the swearing that arises in the world from this particular issue.


Also: Nice 1970's Burger King commercial callback. You and I are both old.

Literally what just happened to me. I ordered solid shaft CTS pots and the knobs I had on hand didn't fit. I then ordered more knobs with a larger "hole" which still didn't fit. Not sure how to determine what would fit now.

 

[bagman67]

I feel your pain, brother.

The CTS solid-shaft pots should come in at 1/4". Stewart Macdonald provides pretty reliable specs for the stuff they sell, and they offer knurled dome knobs (older telecaster or P-bass style) here:

Dome Knob - StewMac

The traditional Fender Tele knob, also used on many other guitars, basses, lap-steels and other instruments.

www.stewmac.com

and there are, of course, lots of other options out there.

StewMac: Not the best price on the planet by far, but you'll be very likely to get exactly what you see on the webpage.

 

[Spud]

I feel your pain, brother.

The CTS solid-shaft pots should come in at 1/4". Stewart Macdonald provides pretty reliable specs for the stuff they sell, and they offer knurled dome knobs (older telecaster or P-bass style) here:

Dome Knob - StewMac

The traditional Fender Tele knob, also used on many other guitars, basses, lap-steels and other instruments.

www.stewmac.com

and there are, of course, lots of other options out there.

StewMac: Not the best price on the planet by far, but you'll be very likely to get exactly what you see on the webpage.

I have drilled out knobs before to make fit before, it can be fine but I have also ruined some trying it.

 

[mayfly]

Nice 101 level instruction, but I need the 201 class - how to stop losing my parts during the wait time when my wife insists the kitchen table is not a workbench.

Seriously, I need to organize my parts bins…

I need 202 - how to not buy twice as many parts as you need because you want to investigate options ... options that you know you won't use in the end ...

 

[Hodgo]

I need 202 - how to not buy twice as many parts as you need because you want to investigate options ... options that you know you won't use in the end ...

Truly. Sometime this year I’m going to finally sort out my parts and there will be a big garage sale post here, I probably have enough to build 5 guitars and twice as many guitars worth of knobs, pickups, plastics and hardware.