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I usually put silicone tubing through the pot holes onto the knurled pot shafts so that I can pull them through. For the jack, it's the end of a 1/4" plug soldered to some braided cable.
I get things in position by using a loop of dental floss poked through from each fixing hole, and then you can pull the loop through the f-hole with a pair of needle pliers and do a cow-hitch around the thread of the pot/switch/jack concerned, and pull it into place.
Ever so easy to break fine wire connections on the harness, so make it as robust as possible - I use braided shield wire to take the strain, with the shielding soldered to each pot, such that the finer connections don't get pulled on. Also, perhaps cheating a bit, but I pre-attach wires that will go from the harness to each pickup, and feed these through to the pickup cavities, and then attach the pickups there, rather than soldering through the f-hole.
I have absolutely no intention of doing this, was just considering it whilst playing my semi (ahem) the other night. Particularly as one of the pots was a bit crackly and I was thinking "Hrm, contact cleaner time ... actually, nah, I'll live with it".
Yes it is a faff, you will probably scratch the guitar the first time you do it.
I use low tack painters tape to protect the f-holes.
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I have to say that I've decided that cheating is justified in a lot of cases where pickups only are being swapped - cut and join the wires in the pickup cavities. If you want to do it really 'professionally' you can screw a piece of tag strip to the floor of the cavity. I'm sure there were some guitars that were done like that from the factory, but I can't remember which...
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