Simon, good to see you here too! You helped a lot with my IC-1 Iceman build.

That's a great suggestion with the blend pot. That s much closer to what I want. I will look into that as an option. Here's a dumb question: does it need to be a specific "blender" pot or can I use a regular 500k pot that was originally purchased for the purposes of a tone pot?
Preliminary research points to that it is it's own animal, a different and specific mechanism.