Warmoth Telecaster

[ibmorjamn]

Finally the body arrived

https://imgur.com/a/QJqGdop

 

[ibmorjamn]

Warmoth rear routed, Alder , bound cream

https://imgur.com/a/hS8MiAX

 

[ibmorjamn]

I did make a mistake ordering the pots, rear rout takes long shaft. They are CTS 250 , I will use them on a Strat. Order new ones.

 

[Thatbastarddon]

Congratulations! I look forward to seeing the results!

 

[C-Grin]

It's gonna be cool, look forward to seeing progress too. The pots will probably work, you usually only need the long shaft pots with a thick cap like on a LP.

 

[ibmorjamn]

I had to see what the neck would look like.

https://imgur.com/a/TZ7xE0m

 

[ibmorjamn]

It's gonna be cool, look forward to seeing progress too. The pots will probably work, you usually only need the long shaft pots with a thick cap like on a LP.

I checked, they left about a 1/4 of a inch thickness but I also want to find different resistance, like 300 or 350k.

 

[Seamus OReally]

Warmoth rear routed, Alder , bound cream

https://imgur.com/a/hS8MiAX

Noice!

 

[paul-e-mann]

That's what I mean, a 500K measuring ~490K is a little on the low side, not much though. What would be interesting would be a measurement of the original pots. One of my Tele's had a 220K-ish pot in there and missed a bit of 'bite', let's say. Replaced ith with a 250K (or very close, can't remember the exact spec) and bingo. Ended up replacing the pickups and adding a treble bleed circuit, but that's another matter.

Let me rephrase that, something like 498kish.

 

[PelliX]

That would be pretty spot on as far as regular pots are concerned. 220K vs 250K would be a much bigger deviation and more noticeable. The point I'm making is just that using a 250K linear pot or putting a 500K one in parallel with a 500K resistor is the same thing, not counting parasitic effects which are pretty much inconsequential here.