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Danelectro guitar mod opinions??


mr benn

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so I'm sick to death of the crappy stacked pots in this thing
(not my guitar, but mine is the same model)

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the tone pot is just useless
I'm thinking of ditching it for just a single Vol pot, but my question is what value pot would work? I don't want to end up with it overly trebly but I do like the idea of a simple vol pot setup

will a 250k vol be okay? should i add a cap on there?

any input??

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Quote Originally Posted by Phil O'Keefe View Post
Keith, there's a place here in the US that sells the original stacked pots - which are indeed 1 Meg / 100K.

http://www.danguitars.com/PARTS.html

Barring that, you could just drop a 500k or 1Meg pot in there and wire it up without a tone control. Or maybe use a J-Bass stacked pot, which IIRC is 250k / 500k.
thanks for the link Phil, I'll investigate that thumb.gif

my big problem is this: if I roll down the volume it doesn't go completely off, some signal still bleeds though
and it seems nigh on impossible to adjust one pot without effecting the other- I don't think it's that I'm accidentally turning both at the same time by mistake
I think they are not properly isolated electrically from each other-it drives me nuts!

I figured a quick fix was ditch the tone pot (due to it's position I don't often roll any treble off)

hadn't thought of a J bass stacked pot...hmmm...
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