It takes a lot of planning to get shipwrecked with all that gear. Still, I was a little surprised to see how cheaply you could get a no-load pot. It makes sense, since they are no harder to manufacture than any other pot. That did not stop the mfgs from charging a premium for them. Must be that they needed to compete with DIY and video such as that, so they brought the price down to where it should be.

Speaking of which... I don't see anything special about the Emerson pots except the stamp on the bottom. The case and what you can see of the wafer looks exactly like a CTS. It's not sealed or anything and uses the same type of carbon-stamp wafer... I would be willing to bet that Emerson just ordered a bunch of them from CTS with the their stamp, the way that Fender has done from time to time. Nothing wrong with that, unless you pay extra for it. They don't even change the font for the Emerson stamp. You can also get a Mojotone that looks just like it.... unless I am missing something here?

BTW, I finally got a good look at Corsair's avatar. Here in Florida people will often put a screen around their pool to keep little kids and cool looking guitars from falling in.