Hey Guys!

I found a capacitor to bypass the volume control on my strat. I've done this in the past and didn't care for the brittleness, but this one works great! It's probably old, and I bought a few of them. I got them from my local electronic shop that lets me dig thru their old junk on occasion. It's a 1000pf 5% tolerance silver mica, brown in color. (I've used the newer black silver micas in recent amp builds and repairs) I've had them laying around for a while and the new strat I have needed one badly, as I'm doing more with the volume control and single channel amps. This is probably known by most of you hackers, but I didn't realize what a difference in sound that old silver mica caps would make. The Tele is next!

It reads: 1000+-5% and EM under the value. Sorry about the crappy image.

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The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair.
Leo Fender

Sounds interesting rjake,

So, you have no volume control on your guitar, or is this a treble bleed or something?

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Treble bypass cap. As in sending the high frequency signals around the volume control and not be attenuated by the volume control resistance. Guess I should have added "treble" to the topic.

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The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair.
Leo Fender