It's Been Eight Years

[Isaac]

I found the usual 330k (actually 275k) pots to be to dark with these 14k pickups, so I replaced the pots with push-pull pot with a 500k Bourns, and the rest with 500k CTS pots. The tone caps are now .022uF ERO caps. The tone is a bit clearer now, and the bridge pickup sounds really good, even with the tone rolled all the way back.

What's the function of the push-pull? Bass blocker cap?

[thx1955]

I found the usual 330k (actually 275k) pots to be to dark with these 14k pickups, so I replaced the pots with push-pull pot with a 500k Bourns, and the rest with 500k CTS pots. The tone caps are now .022uF ERO caps. The tone is a bit clearer now, and the bridge pickup sounds really good, even with the tone rolled all the way back.

What's the function of the push-pull? Bass blocker cap?

Dane has developed a number of variations of the "push-pull" of which I've at least two

• - Push / Pull to Enable - Disable the 0.047 Cap
  - Push / Pull on 4003-S or v63 to provide stereo output i.e. Enable - Disable "Rico-Sound"

Both work really well and sound IMHO better than the factory standards

[8mileshigher]

Congrats!

+1!

+2
Dane -- your custom Pickguards are extremely cool ! !

[aceonbass]

Two modded S5's. Mine is on the left.

Very nice ...Dane, is that one of the new Ric tailpieces on your Fireglo ?

The tailpiece on my S5 is a 4001 tailpiece that I modded extensively, added a custom machined bridge insert to, then replated.

[thx1955]

Two modded S5's. Mine is on the left.

Very nice ...Dane, is that one of the new Ric tailpieces on your Fireglo ?

The tailpiece on my S5 is a 4001 tailpiece that I modded extensively, added a custom machined bridge insert to, then replated.

Very nicely done ....