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Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 8:54 am
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hello, i have a question about the potentiometer in my guitar.
they are about half the size of a strat and i don't know what to ask for.
also when you turn the volume down it decreases
dramatically in vol. instead of gradually,tone does the same thing.


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Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 8:58 am
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fretboard12 wrote:
hello, i have a question about the potentiometer in my guitar.
they are about half the size of a strat and i don't know what to ask for.
also when you turn the volume down it decreases
dramatically in vol. instead of gradually,tone does the same thing.


Exactly which brand/model guitar do you have?

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Well, the pots in your guitar are, shall we say, "light duty" pots, often called, "metric" pots which in part, accounts for their smaller size. These Asian imported pots are readily available pots and can be had from on-line dealers such as but not limited to, Stewart-McDonald and WD Music.

You'd want a 500K alpha pot for your volume and a 250K alpha for each of your tones.

You can replace them with upgrades however, using full sized American ones rather than the full sized Asian ones which aren't much better than their smaller counterparts. With the American ones, you will experience superior performance, longevity and overall durability. Of note is that the shaft holes for thesein your guitar will have to be slightly enlarged to accommodate them.

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Martian wrote:
fretboard12 wrote:
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Well, the pots in your guitar are, shall we say, "light duty" pots, often called, "metric" pots which in part, accounts for their smaller size. These Asian imported pots are readily available pots and can be had from on-line dealers such as but not limited to, Stewart-McDonald and WD Music.

You'd want a 500K alpha pot for your volume and a 250K alpha for each of your tones.

You can replace them with upgrades however, using full sized American ones rather than the full sized Asian ones which aren't much better than their smaller counterparts. With the American ones, you will experience superior performance, longevity and overall durability. Of note is that the shaft holes for thesein your guitar will have to be slightly enlarged to accommodate them.




are you sure it had 250k for the tone? cause its got 2 500k 1 for vol 1 for tone theirs not a 2nd tone. i had a pickup installed a long time ago they could have switched it.

anyway will that take care of the vol drop using usa ones?

thx for your time and effort i know this probably wasn't easy to look up
since the guitar wasn't made for very long.


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Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 1:12 pm
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Martian wrote:
fretboard12 wrote:
fender prodigy with kahler


Well, the pots in your guitar are, shall we say, "light duty" pots, often called, "metric" pots which in part, accounts for their smaller size. These Asian imported pots are readily available pots and can be had from on-line dealers such as but not limited to, Stewart-McDonald and WD Music.

You'd want a 500K alpha pot for your volume and a 250K alpha for each of your tones.

You can replace them with upgrades however, using full sized American ones rather than the full sized Asian ones which aren't much better than their smaller counterparts. With the American ones, you will experience superior performance, longevity and overall durability. Of note is that the shaft holes for thesein your guitar will have to be slightly enlarged to accommodate them.




are you sure it had 250k for the tone? cause its got 2 500k 1 for vol 1 for tone theirs not a 2nd tone. i had a pickup installed a long time ago they could have switched it.

anyway will that take care of the vol drop using usa ones?

thx for your time and effort i know this probably wasn't easy to look up
since the guitar wasn't made for very long.


To be perfectly honest with you, I don't remember what the resistance of the OEM pots are/were. I'm basing my response on the most logical (and personally tested) resistance values when it comes to a guitar that has a full sized humbucker AND single coils.

The American pots should give you your best roll-off provided that there are not other issues involved such as (but not limited to) a treble retention circuit across the existing volume pot.

Glad to help.

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