Doing Things Wrong

Superfreaky Brain Fart

Not sure what possessed me at the time, but I built this with A250 tone pots and B500 volume pots, and the B pots are doing their usual on/off switch behavior - no change until almost zero, then cut off completely. After my most recent testing, I have concluded that B pots have no place in a guitar at all. I probably did this because I have just two A500 pots in the parts bin, one mini and one full sized. A few days ago I ordered a lot of them, when they come in, I will swap these out. In the meantime, the B's will do, especially at full volume, so I can check this thing out.


These are your standard passive volume and tone controls, and two more tone controls that are not so standard, but very useful. Passive controls can only take away, they cannot add. All diagrams are drawn with the pot upside-down - the way you would solder it.