My first PB build - ES-1GT with modifications

[Joe Garfield]

These are the push/pull switches I ordered. It looks like they would fit depth-wise but IDK if the shaft would be long enough. It’s 9.5mm shaft but you have to subtract for the nut. They are 44.5mm total height so some would have to be started through the hole at an angle, which is likely going to happen anyway when you pull them through with string. Mounting depth is only 25.4mm.

https://www.mojotone.com/guitar-part...-Potentiometer

Here is long shaft version, but 19mm shaft adds 10mm to total height and would be more difficult to snake through the holes at an angle.

https://www.mojotone.com/guitar-part...-Potentiometer

I think if you used the long shaft version (54.5mm total height) you could squeeze them into the Neck Vol and Neck Tone per Simon’s measurements and layout. Note that it is perfectly OK to control bridge pickup with a switch hidden under neck pickup’s knob.

[Simon Barden]

These are the push/pull switches I ordered.

https://www.mojotone.com/guitar-part...-Potentiometer

I'm afraid they won't fit through the F-hole of an ES-1 at all. I know because I've got one of those pots handy It's got a full-sized pot diameter, and the extra depth of the full-sized section (let alone the slightly larger PCB connection board) means there's simply no way to fit it into the body. With a normal full-sized pot, you have to angle it in and give it a hard push to fit through the f-hole, but with those deep CTS pots, you simply can't do that.


"I won't fit in this way..."


"No, still won't fit in."

[Ricky]

Hmm... I do not want to carve a big chunk out of the f hole to make it fit! (Nice finish on that guitar btw)
Thanks for checking this Simon.

I have found https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/potentiometers/7703078/
They are 17mm dia as opposed to the 24mm one that you have.
Would they work? Also, is the spec up to the job? They are Bourns so should be decent. Long shaft available.

[Joe Garfield]

@simon Barden nice catch re: pots fitting in the F-holes, that’s the one thing I forgot about. Thanks for catching that before OP ordered what I suggested! And sorry about that, Ricky.

I used push-pull pots on a Korean copy of a PRS Hollowbody and it worked out fine, but I might have had more depth and used the narrower pots. It was a long time ago so I forget.