Pots for Left Handed Les Paul

I decided I like the way my Gibson guitars currently have them, which are the standard pots - CW for volume up. Just like turning UP amp or pedal knobs. Toward the ceiling for volume/tone up and toward the floor for volume/tone down. Maybe it's also the Les Paul was because my main guitar since 92, until fairly recently, and it is that way.
This article got me thinking about what I really like.
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'Reverse' Logarithmic pots - As a left handed player are they 'right' for me? - James' Home of Tone

Since first making my wiring kits, as well as stocking individual parts for replacement, I knew I wanted to offer...
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So good for me, I can easily get regular pots. And I might start a gradual process of switching the pots in other guitars so everything matches.

So thanks for all the input and sorry I wasted your time! I should have thought about it in earnest before I posted.
 
joelorigo said:
I decided I like the way my Gibson guitars currently have them, which are the standard pots - CW for volume up. Just like turning UP amp or pedal knobs. Toward the ceiling for volume/tone up and toward the floor for volume/tone down. Maybe it's also the Les Paul was because my main guitar since 92, until fairly recently, and it is that way.
This article got me thinking about what I really like.
www.homeoftone.co.uk

'Reverse' Logarithmic pots - As a left handed player are they 'right' for me? - James' Home of Tone

Since first making my wiring kits, as well as stocking individual parts for replacement, I knew I wanted to offer...
www.homeoftone.co.uk

So good for me, I can easily get regular pots. And I might start a gradual process of switching the pots in other guitars so everything matches.

So thanks for all the input and sorry I wasted your time! I should have thought about it in earnest before I posted.
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It's never a waste of time. It's always good to get other opinions and experiences so you can see your options and work out what's best for you.
 
joelorigo said:
I decided I like the way my Gibson guitars currently have them, which are the standard pots - CW for volume up. Just like turning UP amp or pedal knobs. Toward the ceiling for volume/tone up and toward the floor for volume/tone down. ...
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Whether it's interpreted to be towards the floor or towards the ceiling all depends on which side of the Pot you're on. 😸

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joelorigo said:
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This article got me thinking about what I really like.
www.homeoftone.co.uk

'Reverse' Logarithmic pots - As a left handed player are they 'right' for me? - James' Home of Tone

Since first making my wiring kits, as well as stocking individual parts for replacement, I knew I wanted to offer...
www.homeoftone.co.uk

So good for me, I can easily get regular pots. And I might start a gradual process of switching the pots in other guitars so everything matches.

So thanks for all the input and sorry I wasted your time! I should have thought about it in earnest before I posted.
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Indeed good for you, on a couple of levels.

'Twas not a waste of time at all, as your thread may help others; and if you hadn't broached the subject here it might've taken you longer to get to your conclusion. When I have a foggy idea I find articulating it out loud to myself, writing it down, or explaining it to others (or trying to) helps it become something tangible and easier to grasp. Kinda forces it through the wormhole.

Glad you've come round to what will work for you best.
 
I can play both(badly) handed and not bothered with what to others 'feels' wrong, CW is raising and CCW is lowering on my guitars, have a LP couple fenders/fender clones. My lefty tele raises same direction as my righty jm, same for my rh pj vs my lh P. Was answered why, if that's how ya feel it do you my friends and wreck some strings!
 
Couple of differences in caps. Some can act like antennas and pull in EMR. I discovered this while audibly testing caps placed next to a neon light to find the foil end. The other is the frequency response. I've found some of those russian hybred caps totally erase half the midrange and upper frequencies. The aluminum foil and oil russian ones are just as good as astrons.
 
Thanks again for all the responses.
I just had a conversation with a technician at G&L about my ASAT, which the volume and tone function opposite for what, I have newly discovered, I prefer. I wanted to know if they used reverse pots or wired them differently for left handed models. Based on what many say against reverse wiring, I assumed they were reverse pots. But no! He said they are in fact standard pots wired backwards. He said I can un-reverse wire them and the posts will travel in the direction I prefer. He even emailed a diagram of the standard wiring. So nice. Looking inside my guitar it seems doable for me.

But...
That got me thinking, if I can do that, maybe the easiest thing for me to change the Les Paul to 50's wiring is just get 2 new 500k pots for the volumes (currently is has 300k) and rewire using the rest of what I already have. I have included a diagram of 50's wiring for lefty and a photo of my guitar.
 

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I did re-wire the ASAT and the pots do function the opposite way. Cool, that was easy.

Now looking at changing the LP to 50's style, all the information I find about 50's LP wiring uses .022uf capacitors. My guitar has .02uf (it has 203M printed on them) currently. Should I get new .022uf capacitors as well as the new 500k pots? Will there be a audible difference between .02 & .022?
 
If you wire the Reverse Audio backwards, don’t you get the same output turning CCW as an Audio taper CW? Or am I thinking wrong?
 
KR Sound said:
If you wire the Reverse Audio backwards, don’t you get the same output turning CCW as an Audio taper CW? Or am I thinking wrong?
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Although I don't have much personal experience in this subject, I have heard that reverse wiring any audio taper pot will result in a less desirable taper, whether it's a normal or reverse.
 
Big Monk said:
Why are people recommending reverse audio taper pots for a lefty guitar?

Reverse audio taper has nothing to do with reversing the physical sweep of the pot for someone playing left handed.

Am I missing something here?
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So that the directionality for the pot is the same for a lefty as a righty. My right handed brother in law was surprised when I told him that on some of my lefty guitars volume/tone up is one way and the opposite on the rest.
 
crikey, what a doozy.

i never considered that lefty guitarists would even care or notice, i mean, they seem to be able to use an amplifier without having to have all the pots wired backwards... :p

behold - the left-handed plexi - where you can turn it CCW up to -11.

joelorigo said:
Although I don't have much personal experience in this subject, I have heard that reverse wiring any audio taper pot will result in a less desirable taper, whether it's a normal or reverse.
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this is true.
 
joelorigo said:
Now looking at changing the LP to 50's style, all the information I find about 50's LP wiring uses .022uf capacitors. My guitar has .02uf (it has 203M printed on them) currently. Should I get new .022uf capacitors as well as the new 500k pots? Will there be a audible difference between .02 & .022?
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You could try it but I highly doubt you'd notice any real difference tbh.
 
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