OT: mounting pots on rear routed guitar body

[AdamB]

Yo,

I'm assembeling a rear-routed guitar body. How do I mount the pots? Do I just tighten the nut down to the body of the guitar? I'm just worried that the pressure of the nut holding hte pot in place might crack the finish or something, and am unsure how it is usually done. Is there usually a spacer or something? I had a look around the interweb but haven't been able to find a solid answer on it anywhere.

-Adam

[Earthscum]

There's about a hundred ways you COULD do it, but yeah... that's how it's generally mounted. If you are worried about finish (any small flaws are usually covered by the knob), you could go to a hardware store and find a nice stainless steel shim/washer. They make them, I just don't know exactly what they are called. It's really thin compared to your typical washer, though, and they actually look kinda sweet. The one I saw had the washer/shim sticking out about 1/16 inch past the knob, so it just had that sweet pinstripe effect around his knobs.

Get creative if you are worried about it too much, but otherwise pots are generally mounted through the wood. Just make sure you ARE using the washer that comes with the pots. If you don't, you WILL dig into the wood and then you are S.O.L.  Just for the fact that you are mounting to the wood body like that, you should expect at least a small amount of marring eventually. All our back-routed guitars have a pretty swirly around all the knobs, and when you take those off, there's almost always scrape marks from just turning them and a chunck of lint and dirt gets ground between the knob and the surface.