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Post subject: 72' thinline questions mim
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 8:51 am
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Hi everyone I purchased a used (2000) thinline and am wondering how alike is this guitar to the original 72 thinline. What upgrades/changes would you recommend to make? (i already put in a duncan jb pickup)

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ps. What is "pot"?


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Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 2:20 pm
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Pot is a (among other things) the inner workings of your knob. Pot is short for Potentiometer. It's the electrical workings that the knob is connected too inside your guitar. The 72 teles use 250k pots but many people upgrade them to 500k which is what the original 72 deluxes used to help brighten the sound a little more.

Basic rule of thumb goes like this: single coil pickups get a 250k pot, humbuckers get a 500k pot. The higher the value of the pot, the brighter the sound, so higher value pots are used with humbuckers to allow a bit more high end to get through with what is, by design, a warmer sounding pickup. Lower value pots are used with brighter sounding pickups to tame some of the extended high end that is associated with single coils.

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Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 12:49 pm
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I like the fatter sound of the 250k pots, as the old wide range pickups sounded kind of nasally in the upper midrange.

The new wide-range pups are ceramic magnets, while the old ones were CuNiFe magnets. NOT sure how much of a tonal difference this makes. What was the potentiometer value in the original 1972 model?

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Tele295 wrote:
What was the potentiometer value in the original 1972 model?


The original 72's used 500k's and some even were made with 1mg's in them.

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Are you planning to use standard sized pickups to replace both originals? Just to mention, the Wide Range bridge pickup is a bit bigger in size than the neck one. I have seen people replace them with standard humbuckers, and the string spacing doesn't line up with the pole pieces at the bridge, unless you get a pickup with Fender string spacing.


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