DIY Custom Jazz Control Plate advice?

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Okay folks...just to preface this with a big thank you to everybody that's put time and thought into reading my other threads about a similar subject.


I still want to make a discrete looking control plate to replace the stock plate on my MIM JazzV.

Going from V/V/T to a more 'complicated' yet classy looking plate.


it will be:

(On a '62 style 3 hole jackplate)

Stacked Concentric Master Volume/Blend
mini toggle switch 1
mini toggle switch 2 (optional)
Telecaster S-1 switch

out



mini toggle 1:
Series/Parallel (bypasses blend in series mode)
or
parallel/series/parallel out of phase (bypasses blend in series mode)

mini toggle 2:
Straight to jack volume/tone bypass (but not series/parallel or blend in parallel mode)


S-1 normal position:
lower-voiced traditional tone circuit

S-1 pushed in:
higher-voiced Greasebucket circuit to just cut clacky highs and some high mids,


I play Rotosound TruBass88's and rarely turn the tone on my bass all the way down unless I want to load the pickups and get that little bit of low boost, so if I've got my tone rolled off and want a low boost I can have it in or out with the push of a button - unfiltered natural strong mids or a filter-fattened low end without a twist of a knob and much of a change in gain structure

I also would like to have a bypass option at hand that would allow me to still have access to summing and blend controls, as these would let me shape signal flow without altering the tone of my pickups to the jack.

This approach seems full functioned without looking overdone
(chrome multi function controls, small toggle switches)

Why the tele S-1? to coordinate with the stacked concentric

If there's a black plastic J bass style stacked knob out there then I'd hop over to a push pull pot, as my bass is black and I like the black/chrome look anyway.

What do you think?

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That vol/blend control will be the death of me.

http://www.banzaimusic.com/MEC-M-85301.html

(+$50 for this pot, shipped from Germany)

Unless i could get a blend on a pushpot that could work as a series/parallel switch, I'm going to have to compromise functionality or make a complicated looking plate.

anyway, thanks for looking.

[FunkMetalBass]

Why not just make it a vol/vol pot? They do make concentric push/pull pots so that you could slap a series/parallel on it.

I think they even have blends with a push/pull option, so you could theoretically set it up as:

Volume p/p (tone/bypass)
Blend p/p (series/parallel)
Tone
Jack

You could even use it as a 4-knob layout and install a side jack.

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'62 (3 hole) control plate - I want to keep this as minimalistic as I can.

If I can use a push/pull knob as a volume/volume bypass then it would look as such:

Blend
Series/Parallel toggle
tone cap 3 way toggle (full out, a little cut, a fat as hell tone cap)
Volume/volume.tone bypass pushpot

2 knobs, 2 switches.

It just depends on whether or not I can use a volume pushpot as a bypass switch.

...as approached in this new thread:

Push-pull pots...Bypass question