Hello everyone,
I assumed it was only me, but looking around the internet this appears to be a common problem among teles: the pickup switch know just fells off. All. The. Time.
I found this tip (a lot of videos with it) but I couldn’t quite make it work.
Any other advide/solutions to this minor but annoying issue?
Cheers!
Hey Kevin,
Cant say its ever happened on my tele ( touchwood 
). I was always hitting mine initially, till my strumming shortened up. Wonder I didnt knock it off.
What about a sliver of paper, or similar? Visit to the guitar shop for another better fitting one? I’d be avoiding the glue route.
Cheers, Shane
This issue to my mind is the only flaw in the Tele design; too near the controls. This is one of the better solutions I have seen.
The pincers idea is good for a plastic knob, but do it a bit at a time until you get a reasonable grip that’s not too difficult to get off. I had a metal knob with a grub screw made that was anodised gloss black, end of problems!
Could you not wrap some PTFE tape around the silver bit that the black end sits on? That should help it stay in place.
Problem is that if it’s tight enough when you push the knob on the tape moves, anything you put in there unless it’s fixed will move before you get a decent wedge effect. At one point I did superglue a thin wedge of wood on the switch blade but it’s got a tendency to split the knob if it’s too thick (no don’t ask how I know 
).
I’ve never had this issue with my Tele.
I did have this though with my Epiphone Flamekat and found a bit of tape on the shaft did the trick.
thank you everyone, I’ll try the tape route! This issue surprised me a lot, never imagined I’d encounter it.