Need immediate help guys!!

nieveulv

nieveulv

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Im placing new humbuckers and CTS pots and caps in my epi les paul custom. However, after many recomendation of using long shaft pots for les paul, i realise that mine is short shaft!!!! :sigh:
So is it alright and recomended to use long shaft pots on a short shaft guitar? Is it safe? Because the nut is there to secure it. I have to drill the holes so it cant be reversed ifi used the long shaft...What should i do? Please advice thank you
 
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uh yeah the Epis are all short shaft haha

saftey wise it shouldnt really matter at all, but it's not really favorable because the pot will just kind of hang there under the shaft in the middle of the cavity. I know the frustration behind finding out the you bought the wrong pots just when you think you're about to begin the project. it sucks. Honestly I think I'd just bite the dust and buy the correct pots and not drill holes in the top of my guitar. Once those holes are they, they really are there and never reversible. But if that don't bother you, then by all means do it. It's just something that'd bother me personally; knowing my pots are just kinda dangling there.

Plus, you can use the unused long shaft pots as an excuse to buy a real Gibson ;)
 
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I've got long shaft pots in my Epi (took the same advice you did) and it worked out fine. They just stick down farther than short shaft ones do. Ah, well.
 
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A proper longshaft pot will have two nuts, a lockwasher, and a finishing washer. One nut fits the longshaft from inside the control cavity (setting the desired depth). The nut that fits on the outside beneath the knob, tightens it all down.

List of parts from top to bottom for a longshaft install:

knob

nut

finishing washer

============= guitar body

toothed lockwasher

nut

pot
 
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