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JohnnyCreepy said:
How to fix too trebly hb sized P90. Symptom was choking notes on highest notes, but this tiny parallel resistor halving pot value solved it!
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I stopped using a tone cap on my passive guitars and now I just use a pot wired as a variable resistor going straight into ground as a tone pot. With a stopper resistor a few tens of k) so it can't turn into a dead short at minimum. Very pleased with the results.
 
jwin615 said:
Looking good man! You could make the not right pick guard a donor. Sand it down to good dims then use it as a router template on some new stock.
Are you going extended scale?
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Nah, 25.5". Works well for C standard with a set of daddario xh bottom/medium tops.

That's kinda what I did, except I just filed it down, scanned it, and traced it against a jazzmaster pickguard in vector format, then I just drew in some divisions to chop it into three pieces.

I was thinking about doing the router table method, but I got a bit inspired to do a jag-master crossover.

The secret weapon on this guy is gonna be the BKP 'pig 90s hiding under a pair of Jazzmaster covers.

21.5k bridge, 15k neck, dual alnico 5 magnets.

Fire
 
JTEX said:
I stopped using a tone cap on my passive guitars and now I just use a pot wired as a variable resistor going straight into ground as a tone pot. With a stopper resistor a few tens of k) so it can't turn into a dead short at minimum. Very pleased with the results.
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Do you use a treble bleed on volume control? Wouldn't both tone and volume sort of do the same thing if you don't have a treble bleed on volume?
 
Fama said:
Do you use a treble bleed on volume control? Wouldn't both tone and volume sort of do the same thing if you don't have a treble bleed on volume?
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I'm also curious as to how one manages a tone control lacking a capacitive element.

Are we talking about an RL low pass filter where the pickup itself is the inductive element?
 
The pickup can be modeled as an RLC circuit, where R is the DC resistance (somewhere in the 5k to 20k range), L is a few Henrys and C is somewhere between some tens of pF to maybe a couple hundred, depending on the pickup. (In?)Arguably what gives a pickup its "toan", or timbre (physical shape and dimensions being equal) is its resonant peak amplitude and frequency (which, BTW, are significantly affected by the cable capacitance). A tone cap only really starts to matter when the tone pot is perhaps at 50% or below, which is when the capacitance starts to interact significantly with the pickup's inductance, producing that low mid hump when the tone pot is rolled off. Now, you may like that hump. Personally I'm not a big fan. I just want the tone pot to darken/brighten the pickup, like a treble cut EQ, not to also make it honky. Getting rid of the cap does just that. Now the tone pot is just a variable resistive load across the pickup. The more resistive load, the more it dampens the pickup's resonant peak, making it sound darker. You just need to replace the cap with a stopper resistor, so you don't go all the way to shorting out the pickup when rolling the tone pot all the way.

Again, not everybody will like the result, since we're so conditioned by the way a classic passive tone pot acts, bit it's a simple thing to try. Just swap the cap with a 30k-or-so resistor and see if you prefer it that way.

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Stickman393 said:
That's the fucking dream right there. Whatcha using for the frame?
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Just 3/4" plywood. It's like a set of drawers if you turn it sideways. I just made it sized for the bin cabs that go inside. 3/4" ply is overkill on the "drawers" but I had a bunch of 3/4 sheets available in the wood shop and some time to kill. The next set will likely be 1/2" ply for the "drawers". The drawer slides are heavy duty ones which are necessary for the weight of the drawer on the bottom slide. I have some HWIN rails left over from another project and may end up using them instead - two rails on the bottom and one rail guide on the top.
 
That Jazz is going to look superb!! I've never played a jazzmaster (??!!), like ever, which would make it one of the few guitars I've never touched. Never repaired one. Never had to restring one. Weird.
 
Fever2112 said:
I made the cabinet - vertical drawers essentially. I ran out of wall space so I compacted. Parts are inventoried and bin numbers assigned. I will make another as I need more bins...
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That's really cool. I'm planning on doing a desk overhaul in the spring and I have something along those lines planned. I like everything right in front of me so I want to put the bins inside cabinets that slide on tracks out of the way, like closet doors. I thought of drawer slides but I wasn't sure if they would ride correctly in a vertical position. Do they ever bind for you?
 
Hmmm, does this qualify as high gain?

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Gordo said:
That Jazz is going to look superb!! I've never played a jazzmaster (??!!), like ever, which would make it one of the few guitars I've never touched. Never repaired one. Never had to restring one. Weird.
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What do you do when you go to guitar center?!?
 
falco_femoralis said:
That's really cool. I'm planning on doing a desk overhaul in the spring and I have something along those lines planned. I like everything right in front of me so I want to put the bins inside cabinets that slide on tracks out of the way, like closet doors. I thought of drawer slides but I wasn't sure if they would ride correctly in a vertical position. Do they ever bind for you?
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Doesn't bind. I think linear rails would be better tho. My next build will be rails.
 
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