How To Make A No Load Guitar Blender Pot

[@ramencurry6672]

Gorgeous potentiometer

[@DennisdeLange]

Worked like a charm on my Telecaster now equiped with blend pot! Awesome! Thanks

[@tom_dilley]

Great video! Would love to see a another one on swapping wafers in stacked pots for custom values / tapers.

[@JoywalkerMusic]

Thanks for making this! I'm currently modifying one of the wafers in an MN taper pot to make it no-load.

[@NicolaIIILombardi]

I made the same thing on my strat. Another possibility is to put nail polish transparent without cut anything

[@kevindominguez8042]

I prefer the circular file since it leaves a notch that you can feel when you're on 10 and when you hit the carbon track

[@RadioshopPickups]

Do you know what, I think I do too! Just feels a little more satisfying! Paul

[@bart5559]

Amazing video. Thank you! For a coil split blend mod, do you also need a no load pot?

[@thenipplerider4323]

Very detailed instruction! Does it work with 50s wiring on les paul though?

[@welshchris1951]

Should work on most pots to make a no load tone control, tone control completely isolated at 10. May need a bit of thought to work out a useful way of producing a blend circuit on a two pick up guitar though.

[@azy6868]

Been doing this mod to all my guitars for 38 years. It was when I found out that Eddie Van Halen removed his tone caps. Don't know why it's not a factory standard.

[@jerrymorganjr]

What I'd you cut it further back? Would you get a more of a noticeable difference in tonal change?

[@AR-do3gj]

Love this. Thanks

[@RadioshopPickups]

You are welcome!

[@craigpimlott204]

CTS = Chicago telephone Service 😉👍

[@briand7381]

Hello, I have a fender Excelsior amp. Was going to do the tone mod. Do you feel a no load would work for an amp? At 10 it would take out the tone?

[@4unkb0y]

thanks, good stuff!

[@welshchris1951]

You could produce a similar result by using a pot with a switch. Two possibilities, rotary switch pots, and pull switch pots. With a rotary switch you would go to "no load" with the knob fully counter clockwise, at "0", the opposite of this mod. Not a problem for a blend pot, no blend at zero, and full blend at 10, pretty much as intuition would expect. For a tone pot it would go from maximum treble cut just before zero, to no treble cut at zero. A little confusing, but I guess you could learn to live with it. A pull switch, any time you want no load, just pull the switch.

[@ziggy8757]

whats the trick to get the pot to "click" when you get it to 10, so that you can actually feel the pot gets bypassed?

[@mr8ty8]

File the knotch deeper so you carve into the housing material. The you get that click feel

[@elmarg7966]

Tried to replace pickups and switch today, and I screwed everything up.

[@RadioshopPickups]

Ah man, sorry to hear that. We’ve all been there if it’s any consolation. I had many mess ups on the path to getting the technique down too. Paul

[@DretLort]

Он не шуршит после подобных манипуляций?

[@JLeppert]

Forgive my ignorance. Does this simply replace the organge drop capacitor? If yes, why do we still use the Caps?

[@Jesuswinsbirdofmichigan]

#20_🇺🇸

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