Blender Circuit With Tone Pot...

[jumpnblues]

...What's the best way to be able to blend pu's on a Tele, have a tone pot, and still maintain the original appearance? I installed a concentric tone/blend pot on mine but it doesn't look original. Works great though. Just doesn't quite look stock.


Tom

[ChristoMephisto]

Being the new owner of a '97 Korean Squier Tele, I was excited about doing the Broadcaster style mod and keeping the tone control.
Thought about the dual pot and wondered how it would look next the regular volume knob. Are the knobs roughly the same height?
I would think if you used the tone pot as a blender as well, you would be reducing the tone while rolling back the pup
If you want, you could run a wire from the switch to the tone's first lug, the one that is usually unused. Middle lug to ground, and the third lug, wire the cap to the volume's first lug. Found it on a website with tons of wiring mods.

cheers

[normantrophy]

Wow, and here I thought I was the only person out there who wanted such a beast.

I found some dual-concentric knobs on Ebay -- It's about the same height, and may be a tad smaller, or that may just be the way it looks -- but to me, it's domed, it's knurled, and you really have to LOOK at it to determine that it's not 100% stock. The biggest problem I found with the knob was that the lower segment had to be drilled out (perhaps both? It's been awhile), and I can never get the lower section to tighten up so it's level -- you don't notice it until you turn it, though, generally speaking.

I can't just where I hooked it up, but for me, the toughest part was rigging up a vintage-style tone cap in a 5-way circuit such though it only affected the tone in one switch position. Just to mix things up, I added a push-pull bypass switch on the volume knob -- in three settings, I get an Esquire-like effect, but in the last two, the neck pickup comes into play (seems like it was using the old-style tone cap as a simple bridge), and you get both pickups in parallel, direct-to-output jack, and the last setting appears to be both pickups in series direct-to-output jack, which is the loudest setting on the guitar. Looks almost totally stock (except for the dual-concentric knob), and I get 8 distinct voices out of it.

So who all else has built something like this (Broadcaster w/tone control)? I'd like to see some links to those schematics, it'd be interesting to see how somebody else solved this problem.

[ChristoMephisto]

Sure no problem. Look under Wiring Diagrams for Guitars for 2S80 and 2S79, and you get the idea. There's a sample of the classic Broadcaster diagram with a 3-way switch at 2S45.
http://www.geocities.jp/dgb_studio/index_e.htm