Finding a small push/pull pot?

[rufustf]

It's not really for a pedal but a guitar. Still, people here seem to know a lot more about finding parts than the folks on guitar forums.

I have an Agile 820, which is like those mini 335 type guitars Ibanez made (make). I want to use push/pull A500K volume pots to split the coils on each pickup. So far, neither the alphas, CTS pots with the side mounted switch, nor some other thing I ordered sold as a mini pot (it was bigger than the alpha) will fit. We're talking the height dimension, not the mounting hole.

I'm starting to think this isn't possible on this guitar, but figured I'd ask here and see if there is any helpful information. It's certainly worked before.

Thanks in advance-
J

[tubegeek]

My knee-jerk reaction would be Stewart-Macdonald for just anything guitar hardware related, but since you've been looking already I'm not confident that's really going to be helpful.

[willienillie]

Most push/pull guitar pots you see have DPDT switches, to do phase reversal or whatever else.  For coil tapping you generally only need a SPST for each pickup, which can be a shorter switch.  But I'm only seeing that in the full size CTS, I guess the one you already tried.

How is your guitar wired now?  Is it like a Gibson with two volumes and two tones?  If so, you could wire up a single master tone, and put a rotary or toggle switch in the leftover position.  DP to tap two pickups simultaneously.

[rufustf]

Yeah, the on a from stew-Mac are too tall, and I do want to keep the separate volume controls as I'd ideally like to control each pickup separately and there are lots of advantages there like rolling one volume all the way down turning your selector switch into a kill switch, and the neck single bridge humbucker combo is a nice sound I like. I've checked most of the obvious sources, though some of the ones at antique electronics are still unfamiliar. Surprisingly mouser didn't seem to have one though I suppose I could have missed it as it's such a mammoth amount of inventory. Thanks for chiming in though. Anyone else?

[paul.creedy]

You could have a single tone control, or if you'd still like separate tone controls fit a stacked pot, which doesn't need as much room as a push/pull pot.

There is a six-way toggle switch too, which allows you to have the usual three positions plus three with coils cut.

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