Ace Flibble
Hero Member
- Messages
- 865
To get right to the point, regular (short) shaft pots don't fit through Warmoth's tops. The threaded section simply isn't long enough and the tops are left too thick. Long shaft pots will fit, but long shaft push-pull pots won't and some types of control pot are hard, if not impossible, to get in a long shaft form (some types of blend pot, Fender's various tone pots and most of the EMG tone and blend pots being the main culprits).
Anyone got a solution to this problem? I was planning on a rear-routed Jazzmaster body and using an EMG SPC control but that's out the window given it won't fit through. The obvious answer is to make the inside of the top thinner, though I don't really see how that could be done accurately enough at such a shallow depth (and/or without expensive, professional routing equipment that I'm sure many of us do not have - at least I certainly don't). Any ideas?
Anyone got a solution to this problem? I was planning on a rear-routed Jazzmaster body and using an EMG SPC control but that's out the window given it won't fit through. The obvious answer is to make the inside of the top thinner, though I don't really see how that could be done accurately enough at such a shallow depth (and/or without expensive, professional routing equipment that I'm sure many of us do not have - at least I certainly don't). Any ideas?