Strat Copy Caps

[sgnt.pepper]

Hi,

I opened up an old strat copy and noticed I had a cap on both tone pots.

All the schematics I searched on this forum only show a cap on one pot.

What should I do?

Am I correct when saying:

A) Tone pots and volume pots are the same hardware

What makes them different is when you solder the cap on the pot,

it turns it into a tone pot

Thanks!

Sgnt.Pepper

Edited February 13, 2006 by sgnt.pepper

[patman]

Am I correct when saying:

A) Tone pots and volume pots are the same hardware

What makes them different is when you solder the cap on the pot,

it turns it into a tone pot

You are quite correct

As for your first question, on real strats, they wire both tone pots to the same cap. I assume on your copy, they used a separate one for each tone pot. It really doesn't matter which way it is done (as long as spending 50 cents on a capacitor is not a big deal ).

[Opencan]

aside that, using two capacitors let you define the tone range for each tone potentionmetter.

its a quite common mod for strats.