I Need A Long Shaft!

[korovamilkdud]

Okay, settle. We don't want fun now.

I need a long shafted 500k DPDT push/pull pot for phase switching. I can't seem to find any at guitarelectronics.com, stewmac, or blackrose.

Need help!

 

[strat_master]

Re: I Need A Long Shaft!

HAHAHAHHA......ok sorry.......HAHAHHAHAHHA.....had to laugh......HHAHAHAHHA...man what do you expect im only 18.....HAHAHHAHAH

did you try GC???

 

[kmcguitars]

Re: I Need A Long Shaft!

That seems to be a hard part to find?? I would try to contact CTS.
If enough people keep asking for them, Maybe they will start making Em'.
For now you best bet would be a Mini switch under you pickguard.

 

[Robert S.]

Re: I Need A Long Shaft!

There is no such thing as a long shaft dpdt push pull pot. You need to either hide a toggle under the pickguard or you have to modify the control cavity to accept a std bushing length.

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: I Need A Long Shaft!

There is no such thing as a long shaft dpdt push pull pot. You need to either hide a toggle under the pickguard or you have to modify the control cavity to accept a std bushing length.

Robert is right!

 

[korovamilkdud]

Re: I Need A Long Shaft!

grrr...

'kay thanks

 

[Simon_F]

Re: I Need A Long Shaft!

Oh for a long shaft! :naughty:

Seriously though, you'd think one of the manufacturers would have spotted this gap in the market and exploited it by now. There must be plenty of people out there who want to do dpdt mods to LPs.....

Hmmm, if you took a standard shaft dpdt pot and a long shaft pot to bits, couldn't you construct a long shaft dpdt pot yourself? :scratchch

 

[korovamilkdud]

Re: I Need A Long Shaft!

Oh for a long shaft! :naughty:

Hmmm, if you took a standard shaft dpdt pot and a long shaft pot to bits, couldn't you construct a long shaft dpdt pot yourself? :scratchch

Well, I couldn't. I'm pretty sure there'd be broken pots and gushing blood.

So I'd just drill a hole in my pickguard, install the toggle there? Anything special I need to know? The pup's condutor will just come up through the pup cavity, right?

 

[jeremy]

Re: I Need A Long Shaft!

are you talking about mounting a switch thru the pick guard (like on a strat) or mounting it under the guard so its hidden?

 

[cvansickle]

Re: I Need A Long Shaft!

Back in '88, I needed long shaft pots to split pickups and phase switch in my Les Paul. We couldn't find any that would work in all positions, but we could install what was available in place of the stock pots on the narrow edge of the body carve. So, two of the pots were stock, and two had switching capabilities.

 

[korovamilkdud]

Re: I Need A Long Shaft!

I think for what I have in mind I'd need to drill a hole in the pickguard so the toggle was through the top. So yeah, I guess like a strat.

 

[Robert S.]

Re: I Need A Long Shaft!

Here's the deal and I think I have it figured out but I'm too busy/lazy to confirm my theory.

The dpdt switch chassis adds quite a bit of length to the backside of the pot. I'm thinking that by adding the dpdt assembly to the back of the pot that it will no longer fit inside the cavity of a LP. Since LPs are the only guitars I know of that use the long shaft pots it wouldn't make sense to manufacture a component that is only needed for LPs if it won't fit the cavity. This is unconfirmed but it's the only reason I can come up with to explain why the long shaft dpdt pots are not produced that makes any sense.

You can use spst long shaft pots for simple splits or you can modify the control cavity of your LP. I cut my cavities so that the dpdt short shaft pots work, JP had the dpdt switches installed under the pickguard. I have never a LP with toggles mounted through the guard and they might not fit that way but it appears that you could epoxy/super glue a couple to the backside edge of a LP guard and still clear the top with just the end of the toggle switch lever/button exposed. You could then drill a small hole in the side of the bridge pickup mounting ring and run the wire through that and down through the body route channel into the control cavity.

 

[Robert S.]

Re: I Need A Long Shaft!

Or you could buy a Gibson Historic Reissue or an Epiphone. Both have deeper cavity route and the 3/8" bushing dpdt pp pots mount into those easily. The 2001 59 RI LP pictured in my avatar has the 4 dpdt pots installed. I finally got the SD Custom Shop Jimmy Page pickups and the JP wiring all installed.

Cute little guitar.

 

[korovamilkdud]

Re: I Need A Long Shaft!

Since you put it that way it makes sense to me to glue a toggle to the back of the pickguard.

Superglue, drill, okay.