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Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: ibanez4life SZ on April 18, 2006, 12:05:59 AM

Title: Upgrading pots!
Post by: ibanez4life SZ on April 18, 2006, 12:05:59 AM

Hey guys!

Just curious about the stock pots on my Ibanez SZ.....are they worth upgrading? I have no idea what they are.....it's a double humbucker guitar, with a SD JB in the bridge, which will more than likely be soon replaced my a PRS Tremonti!

So, as I'm going to be doing some soldering for the pups, I was thinking it might be worth upgrading the pots too.....I'm pretty sure it's relatively inexpensive.

So, how much would it cost and would you recommend it? Where would I go about getting the upgraded pots from?

Title: Upgrading pots!
Post by: Tinus on April 18, 2006, 01:05:52 AM

I would recommend replacing your pots and switch and output also. The afr eastern hardware in your guitar is not that great, although it probably works fine as is.

You'll probably need 500K pots to go with your humbuckers. Tim stocks the CTS pots, capacitors and switchcraft switch and jack you'll need for very reasonable prices. See the BKP web store for pricing info.

Title: Upgrading pots!
Post by: Dakine on April 18, 2006, 01:07:29 AM

Thing is he is talking about a PRS Humbucker and lives in Arizona.

Look at stewmac if I was you, or allparts

Title: Upgrading pots!
Post by: Tinus on April 18, 2006, 01:13:28 AM

My bad Dakine, thanks for your addition :P

Title: Upgrading pots!
Post by: Dakine on April 18, 2006, 01:17:18 AM

Hey no worries there my Dutch friend :)
How is beautiful Holland anyway? I LOVE Holland and the Dutch people (spent a year there), so fun and friendly. Good food, great drinking ;) and PRETTY women  :twisted:

Title: Upgrading pots!
Post by: monkeywalker on April 18, 2006, 03:38:43 PM

Quote from: Dakine

Hey no worries there my Dutch friend :)
How is beautiful Holland anyway? I LOVE Holland and the Dutch people (spent a year there), so fun and friendly. Good food, great drinking ;) and PRETTY women  :twisted:

it's not just me who loves holland then :D

i go over there as often as i can, we usually get the over night ferry from hull.
another good thing about holland is there are no hills :D  makes it nice for walking and all you have to do is stand on a chair and you can see for miles!!!  GOOOOOOOD food!!

Title: Upgrading pots!
Post by: Searcher on April 18, 2006, 05:11:51 PM

Quote from: monkeywalker

another good thing about holland is there are no hills :D  makes it nice for walking and all you have to do is stand on a chair and you can see for miles!!!

Sounds like here.  Joke:  My friend's wife left him the other day. Poor bugger had to watch her walking away for 5 days.

Title: Upgrading pots!
Post by: monkeywalker on April 18, 2006, 05:13:58 PM

:lol:   that would be torture.