What’s on *YOUR* workbench?

it’ll function but bet it sounds so crappy you felt the need to change them ;) a 250 or 500k should be fine, SD has wiring diagrams on their website and EMG gives a free harness with a lot of setups.
 
almondcity said:
I'm replacing pots and pickups on my telecaster. I tried to measure my existing volume pot and it was reading 3k??

I'm not sure if I just couldn't get a good read or what. Would my guitar even function if that was the true reading? Tone pot measured at about 270k
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Active pickups? 5-25k is pretty usual for active, so 3k could be a very out of spec 5k pot lol.
 
Bricksnbeatles said:
Active pickups? 5-25k is pretty usual for active, so 3k could be a very out of spec 5k pot lol.
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Nah this is standard telecaster stuff. It sounds good to my ears so I probably just didn't get my probes in there. I'll measure it again once I tear it out

I'm just going crazy with pots. I bought 3 pots and 2 of them measure just at the bottom of the tolerance range. And considering I prefer a brighter guitar I'm thinking of ordering more lol
 
I replaced the pickups and everything in the control cavity of my 2003 highway one tele. This is my #1 guitar. Cavalier pickups and 300k pots. I ordered a mint green guard on a whim but I don't know if it will go well with it. This will get a refret in stainless this week
 

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dark, like forest green for the guard but gotta :love: the rest of the choices. I'm trying to build the motivation to go get a board to redo the neck for my ric bass build, I could live with the wobble at the nut end of the truss but was so thin top to bottom it cracked when I tried putting in the tuner bushings>< on a good note, the body is curing for the glue up taking the guts from the shartcaster to become akin to a barncaster....
 
almondcity said:
I replaced the pickups and everything in the control cavity of my 2003 highway one tele. This is my #1 guitar. Cavalier pickups and 300k pots. I ordered a mint green guard on a whim but I don't know if it will go well with it. This will get a refret in stainless this week
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I'm really torn on this. I think the 300K is a tad bright for me. The neck sounds perfect with tone on 10 but the middle position needs tone taken down to like 8 or 9. I'd prefer to have the middle position perfect with tone on 10 and then I'm fine turning it down for the bridge pickup. I might take these pots out for the 250KJ pots I have here. I will give it a bit more time before I do anything. As a bonus it would get rid of these split shaft pots, to hell with em
 
A friend of mine recently bought a Rickenbacker 330. He loved the bridge pickup but found the neck pickup too bassy, so he put a .047 (I think) cap in series with the neck pickup to remove some bass and now he says they blend perfectly. I had never thought of doing that.

If you like the 300K pot on the neck you might be able to put a small treble snubber cap to ground from the bridge pickup to get the tone just right.
 
HamishR said:
A friend of mine recently bought a Rickenbacker 330. He loved the bridge pickup but found the neck pickup too bassy, so he put a .047 (I think) cap in series with the neck pickup to remove some bass and now he says they blend perfectly. I had never thought of doing that.

If you like the 300K pot on the neck you might be able to put a small treble snubber cap to ground from the bridge pickup to get the tone just right.
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I read about putting an extra resistor to ground in parallel to the bridge pickup to cut some of the highs, seems like an easy thing to try but I think in the long run the split shafts are going to annoy me. They seem to make the knobs stick up a little taller than they should
 
I'll often quickly grind 'em down with a belt sander or a grinder. I don't go anywhere near the guitar with the sander! I clamp the sander to a bench and hold the pot up to the sander - it takes all of about 30 seconds. I usually have a solid shaft pot nearby to check the shaft length with.
 
stewmac offers the resistor in combo with the caps and calls it a treble bleed. save the cash, use their values for reference. ric guitars have that 5th knob for a reason, blending/balancing, to dim down the bass or ease off the "high twang" of the bridge. got some 22nf coming to go on 500k pots, wiring is next after attaching the body wings on a 480c look alike. figured I'd glue thatup while mulling over an outside shape for the barncaster :unsure: yes I have like 3-4 builds going at once:ROFLMAO:
 
HamishR said:
A friend of mine recently bought a Rickenbacker 330. He loved the bridge pickup but found the neck pickup too bassy, so he put a .047 (I think) cap in series with the neck pickup to remove some bass and now he says they blend perfectly. I had never thought of doing that.

If you like the 300K pot on the neck you might be able to put a small treble snubber cap to ground from the bridge pickup to get the tone just right.
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I put a cap across the 5th knob pot so it works as a bass cut control for the neck pickup on my 620. VERY useful.
 
jubal81 said:
I put a cap across the 5th knob pot so it works as a bass cut control for the neck pickup on my 620. VERY useful.
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That's what I suggested to him but he's very happy with what he has now, and having played it I can say it sounds amazing. It's tuned down a semi-tone and strung with 11-50 round wounds. He's a guitar tech so knows how to set up a guitar to play beautifully, and this Rickenbacker has almost changed my mind on how I see Rics. It really does sound great. It almost sounds like an acoustic guitar - it has the same kind of attack and overtones.
 
Making a big batch of Alembic-style low pass filters for bass, so I can finally clear my desk of all the parts I bought for them, instead of having to store them :)
 

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