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Have you grounded the bridge?

That is pretty smucking fart

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Some beautiful guitars again this month, and I debated long and hard between two of them, with Pan_kara's being one of them, but in the end I voted for psikoT's ash/wenge 7 string. The carve with the black on top just looks so perfect

Those two methods of doing the tone control are functionally identical, and assuming the rest of the wiring is done correctly, neither method would cause the volume to be on full all the time. You need to check your wiring very carefully.

I have to agree with the majority here. I can't see enough features of 'Evil' to judge it properly, although the face looks beautiful. While I'm not an Explorer type guitar lover, I am voting for 'Blackhawk', mainly because I can see much more of the workmanship that has gone into it.

That is a similar idea to the Stewmac guitar holder http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Finishing_supplies/Equipment:_Spray_equipment/Freehand_Holder.html?actn=100101&xst=3&xsr=269925

Three entries similar in design. Hmmm, after much deliberation, sdshirtman has managed to steal my vote

Interesting. I opened up my Yamaha bass to verify the blend pot against what you've said, and it's fitted with a dual log/anti-log pot (mid point is 75% of full travel on each element). Horses for courses... The Stewmac ones are linear, as are the two I have here, and each track definitely measures (within 5% tolerence) 500k from one end to centre. From the centre to the other end is virtually a dead short, no more than about 15 ohms.

That is exactly how the Stewmac pots work, and all other blend pots I've ever seen. Track 1 is 500k between centre and left, and short circuit between centre and right. Track 2 is the opposite way round. If the resistance was 500k evenly spread over the full range of movement end to end, then the centre detent position would be 250k from each end, giving only half volume on each pickup.

Either that, or he edited it nearly 12 hours before your post EDIT: Or maybe I need to go away and learn to tell the time

He said he did in his post you mean i am supposed to read everything people write Yes, and also you should read back through every post they've ever made in case there is something in there that is relevant to the current post

He said he did in his post

The type of thing you are describing is really only useful to change components to change the tone of an effect that the board was designed for. Example, you have designed and built a treble booster, you can see if you can get it sounding a little better by changing a few components. You wouldn't be able to simply put components on there to make it into a phaser, wah pedal, tremolo etc. So, you would need a different board for each different type of sound effect. I suppose you could have one board that covered everything, but the board would be huge because it would need to have dozens of different circuits on it for the dozens of different effects that are available. That is why multi effects units generally use digital signal processors, such as the offerings from Zoom, Boss, Digitech etc.

Just to confuse the issue, a stacked humbucker can sound very like a normal single coil because you still only have a single row of pole pieces. Many years ago, I had a 1978 Hondo II Strat copy, but the bridge was like a tele three saddle bridge without the pickup surround. The pickups were DiMarzio stacked pickups and looked just like standard Strat pickups, but I was surprised that there was no hum. I took the pickups out and slid the covers off. Two coils, one on top of the other, and one was reverse wound. The impedance of the neck and middle pickups was 6k, with the bridge being 7.5k. I have no idea what the inductance was. The most interesting thing was the sound. The guitar sounded just like a 1970s Strat, except the switch was wired for bridge, bridge + neck, middle, middle + neck, so no bridge and middle setting. A wonderful sounding guitar. This model, but mine was blond ash finish body I've played around with Strat size blade humbuckers - I have two of them fitted on a Squier Showmaster, and while they are more single coil sound than normal size humbuckers, they don't quite sound like single coils.