I have looked at this and haven't really found a definitive answer or proof anwhere, so I figure I may as well give it a shot here before I go through with another method.
Anyway, I plan to make my Gibson SG Standard have coil splitting soon, however looking at the push pull potentiometers they strike me as being too tall to fit in the cavity. Does anyone know if there are certain brands of pots that would just about fit, or anyone who has installed them in and it fits ok? I know Gibson make push pull pots that they have put into some of their SG models and others that have coil splitting, however it doesn't look like they can be purchased directly and aren't easy to get hold of unless someone is selling them as spares or have replaced them due to modding.
Any help appreciated, if they can't then I'll just resort to my plan of getting the guitar tech carefully drill a hole and have a mini toggle switch installed, I can use the one from my Les Paul Custom Lite since it is getting replaced with a push pull pot.
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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
In other news, according to its Haynes manual, the SG is Gibson's best selling guitar. Would have thought the LP, but there you go.
Thanks for the suggestions, the first option sounds the best with 10 as the full humbucker and 0 split. Is there any specific sort of pot you would recommend to do it, at the moment I've just got a 500k Dimarzio one with a custom taper. Thing is I've read some people saying that it is best to use a no load tone pot and such. I'm using a Bulldog Fat Paf which I need to send to Hayden when I get round to it to be changed to four conductor so I'll have to look at the instructions to see which wire is which and where it needs to go, looks 100% likely that I will need to rewire the tone pot.
The problem is that I think there were some places that did sell ones that just about fit, but those places weren't around anymore when I clicked the links. Its frustrating that Gibson don't sell the ones they put in their coil tapped standards on their own. The design is a bit different but they do at least fit.
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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Finally may as well ask it here to save cluttering up the forum with another thread, the Fat PAF I have in the bridge can be redone to 4 conductor easily since I can just send it to Hayden at Bulldog. However I will most likely do this with the neck as well, however it is a Guitarforce one which is somebody from the US who made it, and he's stopped making pickups due to some personal things years ago. So I was wondering if there anyone here on the forum who works with pickups and knows this sort of thing well could potentially rewire it for me to 4 conductor (for a cost obviously) if I sent it them when ready.
http://oilcitypickups.co.uk/customwork.html
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein