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Micro toggle versus Push Pull pots

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Help me choose. On On On micro toggle or push pull pots. Keep in mind the close proximity of controls on a Tele control panel. Already planning on a reversed panel with an angled slot for the pup selector (4 way for Bridge, Bridge/Neck Series, Bridge/Neck Parallel, Neck). If micro toggle, will be using micro knobs to gain additional spacing. What say you?
 
http://www.stewmac.com/Pickups_and_Electronics/Components_and_Parts/Potentiometers/CTS_Push_pull_Pots_DPDT.html

Smooth and reliable, and smaller than normal push/pulls. They are the push pulls used in my Gibson SG Standard 2015, and they don't have the same loose feeling quite as much as other ones. They're also going into my VIP (when it gets here).
 
If you choose to have two push/pull switches, then you are adding complexity to the scheme, which will make it less practical. It is no fun at all when you have to change settings immediately, in the middle of a song, but you have to fiddle with multiple switches to do it.
 
I was very happy with the mini toggle I used on Bete Noire for the tap on my Duncan Quarter Pound.  Just drilled a hole halfway between the volume and tone pot holes.  The switch never interfered with me rolling the knobs.  I'm going to use the same plate and switch arrangement when I install the Quarter Pound in another guitar.


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I keep saying one day I'm going to build a capacitive touch switch under the pickguard.
 
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