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James8831
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James8831
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Joined: 10/29/01
Posts: 510
05/31/2002 3:10 pm
pstring has it down..

Stewmac has top notch stuff,very good postage costs to the UK and is fairly quick too.

I'd (just!) add i'd go for Pots from Brandoni -

http://www.brandoniguitars.co.uk/index2.html

go to prices then under accessories and strings - you can't order on the web so on the phone ask for Alan,he knows a lot of stuff in this field (-it's either him or some bird there,i think).



The reason is that i prefer Linear response pots for Vol (should be marked thus- B500K - B standing for Linear).
And Logarithmic (A500k in this case) for Tone pots...Stewmac don't seem to offer that option.

As it happens most standard guitars [i've ripped apart] have pots like i've described above.

For pickups, The (darned) Gibson measures about 5.5K in the Neck and 8.3k in the bridge--as the string vibrations are less discernible to the pickups in the bridge area (strings dont vibrate as much) they need more output.

My twin 'bucker Ibanez measures 4.3k Neck and 7.8K bridge.

You can't tell much difference between the actual level of output in practice.

Project str*t copy has neck@4K,mid5.45K,Bridge@6k and for various reasons you can't tell a great deal of difference in output [although, i have to say it is run through an inboard preamp ,so i suspect you'd be able to detect more differences without a pre]

So I don't ramble too much ,i'll try and keep this short Brandoni also do Kent Armstrong, got the SKY Vintage in the strat copy,not overly impressed with this though.

for cheap parts also see.

http://www.highlystrung.co.uk/ - top geezers, low price- they do ORDINARY scratchplate material,about £10. :)

Otherwise http://www.pickguards.com/

Good hunting.
Accuracy,you say? hmm interesting concept..