it's stock from fender'

Fender has also been known to put righty pots in lefty guitars.

Explain all this to your tech. If (s)he's knows what (s)he's doing, this will not be a problem either way.

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This is incorrect. What makes those particular CTS pots "lefty" is the type of taper they use. They use a logarithmic taper in the opposite direction (CCW) of the conventional (CW) logarithmic taper used by right handed pots.

If you need your pot to go from "10 to 1" versus "1 to 10," you would merely wire it backward.

This page describes pots and the logarithmic taper:
Electric Guitar Volume Pots
That page says that lefty pots are no longer made but, as you have seen, they most certainly are.

OK, I KNEW someone was going to dive in on this one. Yes, lefty taper pots by electronics definition are as you've said but in this particular context coupled by AllParts for example, making the distinction between linear and lefty, what I've stated was indeed, correct. Again, in THIS context.

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My point is that, if you substituted a lefty pot in the place of a righty pot, it would still operate as 1 to 10. Your "doing the same with a lefty pot" statement suggests otherwise to me. The difference would be that it would sound like you are turned up to 8 or 9 when you're only turned up to 2 or 3. At 1 the volume is still zero; at 10 the volume is still maximum. The in-between levels are the difference.

Perhaps you were saying that a pot on a right hand guitar is turned clockwise to go from 1 to 10 and a pot on a left hand guitar is turned counter-clockwise to go from 1 to 10. That would be correct but, in itself, would not require the need for a different pot. A linear tone pot could be installed in a lefty or righty guitar and operate completely as expected in both cases. It is the combination of the fact that a logarithmic taper is employed in the volume pot and the fact that lefties turn in the opposite direction that necessitates a different type of pot. It is the type of logarithmic taper that defines the difference between a lefty and a righty pot.

So?

An audio pot cannot be arbitrarily wired like a linear pot where it will work properly regardless of sweep direction. I stand by everything I've previously stated.

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so the ultimate answer is?



get a left handed pot

am i right?

Yes.

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by the way, i have my multimeter right by my side.

what have i to check?

i put it on resistance mode, then?

Here's a link which explains the procedure:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh2cQCLie5A

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oh thanx

i just looked at it, he doesn't say anything about how to see if it is a right or lefty pot tohugh

He is demonstrating a righty one. Put one of your probe on the middle terminal and the other on the opposite side terminal of the one he puts his on per his demonstration.

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hi i just tested my left handed cts 250k volume pot
results are:


left end + wiper probes
readings:

258k when the pot is open ( counter clockwise)

0k pot closed ( clock wise )

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258k clock wise - pot full close
0k count-clockwise pot full open

wiper + right end



258k and slight variation when twisting the pot with the 2end probes connected.

so it's working good.


question: is it a left handed pot?? i suppose so from the test.
thanx!

no?