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ari
11-24-2004, 11:57 AM
250k, no center dent... Thinking about splitting tone controls for my Strat to neck + middle and bridge. My bridge alone setting always seem too bright in comparison to the rest of the settings.

AllParts had one but has a center dent. StewMac only seems to have 500k. Anywhere else?

ari

Jim Collins
11-24-2004, 04:40 PM
Why do you need a concentric pot to do this? I wired my Strat so that the middle tone is a tone for the neck and middle pickups, and the outside tone is for the bridge only. I went one step farther and gave each tone control its own capacitor.

ari
11-25-2004, 07:11 AM
Originally posted by Jim Collins
Why do you need a concentric pot to do this? I wired my Strat so that the middle tone is a tone for the neck and middle pickups, and the outside tone is for the bridge only. I went one step farther and gave each tone control its own capacitor.

My outside tone is the volume control for my X bridge.

ari

Jim Collins
11-25-2004, 10:33 AM
I can't find any 250/250 concentric pots, anywhere. I can find 250/500 and 500/500, but no 250/250. I've tried guitarelectronics.com, stewmac.com, and allparts.com.

Old Tele man
12-05-2004, 02:42 PM
...check the electronic component distributors, such as Allied, Digi-Key, Mouser, Jameco, etc. Or, contact the manufacturers directly: CTS, Amphenol, etc.

David Myka
12-11-2004, 08:07 PM
Check out: Omeg (http://www.omeg.com/p2c2owb2.htm). It appears that you may be able to order any configuration you need.
Also try: www.potentiometers.com (http://www.potentiometers.com/)

Here is an interesting discussion that addresses the use of resistors to change the value of a potentiometer. I have not done this myself so I cannot verify how it works but it may be worth a test: Turning 500k pots into 250k pots (http://pub123.ezboard.com/fguitarsbyfenderfrm8.showMessage?topicID=1113.topi c)

~David