AG-1 perhaps i am Tony Iommi?

[OliSam]

Working on a headstock shape




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[OliSam]

The figuring on the front of the headstock is quite nice and im in two minds about covering it up with a black veneer.
May just make it a very dark walnut colour with the stain so that it still shows through??


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[OliSam]

I have also been thinking of plugging the holes and making a kind-of PRS headstock.
Here is a shot of one that ive been mucking about with lately. It has a wenge veneer.





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[Simon Barden]

What would Tommy Iommi do?

[Simon Barden]

Dark Walnut Sabbath?

[OliSam]

In a very gentle birmingham accent he would say “ i dont care what the bl00dy thing looks like. Just make it roar!”


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[OliSam]

Ive been looking at the SD website at wiring options for this fancy bit of pickuplove.
And today i got two push pull pots!




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[Simon Barden]

That’s just about all the options covered!

Have you checked that the switched pots fit in the cavity? The SG is a lot thinner than most guitars so there’s not as much depth. It could be quite tight, so you may not be able to solder wires to the ‘top’ of the switches but will have to use the sides.

[OliSam]

looks like the push pull pots are going to fit.
I also measured them with a multimeter. both came in at 520. interesting, eh? as theyre marked as 500K pots.

[Simon Barden]

looks like the push pull pots are going to fit.
I also measured them with a multimeter. both came in at 520. interesting, eh? as theyre marked as 500K pots.

All pots have a tolerance value associated with them. Unless specified otherwise, assume +/-20%. So a 500k pot can be 400k to 600k. In practice the values are normally closer to 500k than the outer limits. CTS do a guitar range with a +/-9% tolerance, but that’s still 455k to 545k. Higher than 500k is almost always considered to be best for making humbuckers sound their best.

I have found that almost all my recent 500k pots have been 500k+. There was a time when CTS pots were almost always nearer 450k than 500k, so maybe they’ve adjusted their manufacturing after bad feedback. The Alpha pots I’ve used normally sit on the higher side of 500k.