tone pot replacement...

hey guys I've got a washburn xseries guitar, and I recently broke the tone pot on it. I bought a replacement pot and a soldering gun to try to replace it myself, but no sound will come out of that guitar. I need to know exactly where all the wires go and what to solder together.

First thing would be to draw the wiring diagram before old pot removal. A digital pic would be nice as well.

Also you need to know there are two types of pots. Linear and audio (log) taper. You need to get the proper kind or the tone control will not work very nicly. I'm assuming a log pot would be used but I could be wrong.

Then just solder up the new pot just as the old one was soldered and you should be good to go.

If you already have the pot removed and can't remember, you mught try the guitar web site to get the wiring diagrams for you model.

Hope this helps and good luck to ya :)

You can search around the net for a schematic for your particular type of gutiar... I'm sure there's one out there somewhere.

The schematic shoudl tell you what kind of pot to use as far as what resistance it is... If it's a humbucker setup, which I'm fairly confident that the Washburn X-Series uses buckers... you're going to want to make sure your pot is a 500k pot.... You can use a 250k or 1meg but it will sound differently than it did with the stock pot in...

Also... Always use linear taper pots for tone pots... The difference between the two is that the Linear taper has an equal band of reduction across all settings... Audio taper pots have an exponential rate of change.. meaning you'll notice a big differnce in change from 1-6 and very little change from 6-10...... Always use linear for tone... and audio for volume.

the pot is a 500k dime size with a long shaft, and my guitar instructor told me to simply solder the wires onto the back of the tone pot, but that didn't work. on the pot that was broken, there was this little green square with two small wires coming out of it, one attatched to the bracket, and one attached to the back of the pot.

That "little green square" is a capacitor. You need to note where all the wires are [u]before[/u] you take anything apart, and then install the new component exactly the way the old one was.

I'm guessing you didn't do that, huh? :o

If you soldered all of the wires to the back of the pot, you have grounded the pickup output, which is why there is no signal coming out.