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Yes Skibum I was looking for one master "thin/fat" control. The only dual-gang pots I can find in the UK are to large to fit into a guitar contrl cavity. I have thought about using a blend/fader pot by wiring one set of contacts in revers to the other set but you would only get a usable adjustment on half the pots travel. I have just wired the dual humbuckers of my latest creation "lespaulprssinglecutalike" to two seperate pots as sugested above and I am pleased with the results. The mid position of the pots sounds very P90'ish and with 2 controls you get a very nice slection of usable sounds. But in a live situation I think that one pot would be easier to control.

Yes, it's that simple. No - you'll need a separate pot for each pickup. Thanks lovekraft, I suspected so. Jack Briggs does this with one pot on his Classic model, I guess it must be done with a stacked pot of some sort. What value pot would you recomend for this coil tap mod?

I am looking to use a rotary pot to coil tap humbucking pickups so that when turned one way you have both coils in series and turned the other way you have one coil tapped. Like a sort of "thin/ fat " control. Can this be done with a standard liner pot by grounding the series link through the pot, or is any thing else needed in the circuit? And can both pickups be tapped this way but connected to one common pot?

My first Guitar was a PRS single Cut copy with a set neck & flame maple cap finished in double stained midnight blue burst. The construction of the guitar was competed in 8 full days on one of Mark's courses and he shot the laqure spray job for me at a later date. Since then I have made a number of Les Paul replicas, several PRS style double cut aways an SG and a music man style Bass. And I also do the odd repair job. I am currently working on 2 modified les paul style instruments and a flying V. I build around 6 guitars a year spending aprox 20 hours a week in my converted garage (now a fully equipt workshop). DT

Hi Byron, I'm also in the Uk (Oxford) I built my first guitar a couple of years ago on a short part time course with a guy called Mark Bailey. Check out his Web Site :- baileyguitars.co.uk He had an article about his course published in Guitarist magazine a few years ago, I think there is still a link to it on his web site. It was a great expirence building my first guitar and he is a great guy to show you the basics and what can be achived with realativly simple tools and limited experiance. I have continued to build guitars in my spare time usualy commissioned by people in the local music sene and hope to some day do it full time.