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SexPanther wrote:sorry all the pics are sideways :I

Oh thank God; I thought it was me...

Urb

Rye-T-Us!

bring it alive and on, we are diggin' it!

Urb

REALLY liking the look and description of that Beng, G!

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Thanks Eben Ya brow beatin sob ;) :lol: Inside joke...sorry! Hee HEE!! ;) :lol: So by putting a cap on the volume pot, wouldn't that in essence turn the volume pot into a tone pot? The answer is kinda, bu not really: A small value cap like I recommended across the volume pot will act as a treble ga...

Well, in a nutshell, yeah, you can. In general, higher ohm value yields greater gain and treb tone response, with less compression. If by "When you clean it up," you mean when dropping volume, then I'd ask first what caps you're using on the volume and tone pots? If that's the issue, then ...

Niiiiiiice! I think a guy could spend many a year just happily cranking out Tele variants, ya know?

I could, anyway...



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Addendum #1, (Hopefully not jacking your thread, Mike!). After talking more with the player, this Mandocaster is quite similar to what I think I heard you talking about doing. I thought he'd want to play one or the other with nary a snippet between, but I didn't think that through... He wants to do ...

Holy crud, now that there are smarts, huh? I'm kinda, funnily enough, in a similar 'Hmmm' mode as you Mike - Just started the wiring for the Mandocaster, so need to actually think out how best to do that - 1 single coil for the mando, 2 for the tele, but how to make it sound good and best aren't fir...