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One of these days I'll get the DSLR camera out and take a decent pic so you can see the woodgrain peeping through. Looks amazing in sunlight.
Also, purchased black pickup surrounds and a swish truss cover today which should look great. $16 well spent I reckon.
Great to see you having some wins.
I'm going to get into the pre-build soldering, ie wire up the electronics on a sheet of cardboard. There are 4 x 500K pots, 2 marked A and 2 marked B. My question is which are the volume and which are the tone?
SFK I can't remember which pot is for tone and volume, have another read through Gav's post he probably mentioned it.
You should be able to do all the soldering outside the body minus the pickup live/earths and the earth to the bridge post
Hey Hooper, you might want to get a pair of pliers and remove the little nibs that stick out of 2 of your pots, they will make the pot sit at and angle, and that's not good!!!
Pest do you mean the nibs to stop the pot rotating on the face that touches the body ?
from memory the ES kit pots didn't have these, my vol and tone knobs were perpendicular to the body
Yep, no nibs here either. Incidentally, they're a desirable thing! They're meant to be pushed up into the soft wood from behind and act as a locking device to prevent rotation - working in conjunction with the pressure applied from the bolt above.
That's what lock washers are for as well!!!!
Unfortunately, the markings on pots aren't standard worldwide, so it can vary. Typically, 'A' designates Logarithmic or Audio taper (used for volume), and 'B' designates Linear taper (used for tone). But log pots are sometimes used for tone as well, and vice versa. If you are unsure and have a multimeter you can measure the resistance at full position on the pot and then measure again at halfway position, if the resistance is ~50% at halfway then it should be a linear pot.
Indeed, but they're not actually lock washer. They're just washers.
Wokka, Gav's post is excellent but he doesn't mention which pots are which. I'm googling it.