Moving knob/toggle placement on my PRS

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Moving knob/toggle placement on my PRS

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So lately i've been playing my prs a lot, ive come to really miss the toggle switch placement on my musicman jp6.
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The pup selector is currently located far away from the bridge, and getting to the toggle while playing is very difficult. So i was thinking to move the toggle to the current volume knob location near the bridge pup, move the volume knob to the current tone knob, and move the tone knob back to the current toggle switch. Is this major guitar surgery? Or should i be able to do this without soldering? On a side note, the above pic isn't my guitar.
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Post by rps-10 »

As long as the wires inside are long enough to just swap positions then its a 5 minute job. Until you look inside you won't know for sure.
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Post by JJLipton »

Thanks i had a peek under the back plate and it looks like theres enough wire. Doing these kinds of things scares me though.

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Prise the speed knobs off - if they are that type, undo the nuts on the Vol and Tone pots and the switch and carefully turn everything anti-clockwise ( from your pic) one postition, so the switch ends up in the current Vol hole, and the V & T move around one hole/postion. (Vol where the tone is and ton e where the switch is)

Be careful with the reach on that capacitor from vol to tone and hope the rest of the wires are long enough - they do look ok from that pic though.

Keeps pics of everything just in case you need to put back as is, or if wire breaks and needs soldering etc.
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Post by jamba72 »

I´d just swap the tone pot/knob with the toggle..
the electronics seems a bit cheap..
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Post by paul_ »

jamba72 wrote: the electronics seems a bit cheap..
Looks like CTS and Switchcraft to me apart from the push/pull.
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