69tele
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Post by 69tele on Jan 10, 2020 9:32:08 GMT -5
Got a left handed guitar to replace the pots this weekend, am I right in saying that i need left handed pots ?
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Jan 10, 2020 9:35:54 GMT -5
Yes. Audio taper pots (for volume control) need to be left-handed for them to work properly.
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Post by 69tele on Jan 10, 2020 9:44:00 GMT -5
thanks i had a feeling they would, i have all sorts of pots in stock but not lefty ones so will need to order.
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Post by Leftee on Jan 10, 2020 10:10:23 GMT -5
It depends. A lot of us just use standard pots and wire them righty. I do this on all my guitars. Gibson also does this.
On a lot of sub-$1000 lefty guitars they use righty pots and wire them lefty. The volume(s) work ok, but the tone pots do not. There is no effect on tone until we get to the end of the pot... then it turns abruptly to mud. I just rewire these guitars righty.
Gibson uses standard pots and wires their lefties righty at the factory. That way they don't have to procure reverse taper pots and knobs with the numbers reversed.
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Post by chronicinsomnia on Jan 10, 2020 15:27:50 GMT -5
I've never bought lefty pots. Didn't know there was such a thing. Probably the reason I don't tend to use my tone knobs much. I have only really used my tone knob when I want the tone to go dark as night.
I should have known better. I do wire everything lefty though. Where do you even get lefty pots?
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Jan 10, 2020 16:00:30 GMT -5
All the big-name vendors (WD, Allparts, etc.) have 'em, even if they don't show them online. Amazon also probably sells them.
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Post by Leftee on Jan 10, 2020 16:16:21 GMT -5
They’ll often call them reverse audio taper.
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Jan 10, 2020 16:59:53 GMT -5
Don't forget the left handed soldering iron.
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Post by jonnyblooz on Jan 10, 2020 17:30:30 GMT -5
While we're on the subject, which direction should lefty post raise volume/tone?
My Strats all came as counter clockwise 0-10. I just never knew if that was correct or not.
My Les Paul is the opposite.
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Post by Leftee on Jan 10, 2020 21:29:16 GMT -5
While we're on the subject, which direction should lefty post raise volume/tone? My Strats all came as counter clockwise 0-10. I just never knew if that was correct or not. My Les Paul is the opposite. All my guitars are set up so that volume goes up as I turn clockwise. IOW the volume and tone corresponds to the numbers. My Gibson’s came that way. Other guitars, I’ve had to rewire. Do your tone controls on your Strats work correctly? Or do they have no effect and then go to mud at the very end of the pot? |
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Post by jonnyblooz on Jan 11, 2020 23:47:41 GMT -5
While we're on the subject, which direction should lefty post raise volume/tone? My Strats all came as counter clockwise 0-10. I just never knew if that was correct or not. My Les Paul is the opposite. All my guitars are set up so that volume goes up as I turn clockwise. IOW the volume and tone corresponds to the numbers. My Gibson’s came that way. Other guitars, I’ve had to rewire. Do your tone controls on your Strats work correctly? Or do they have no effect and then go to mud at the very end of the pot? They all work correctly. My strats with the TBX circuit work as they should as well. I swear all of mine increase counter clockwise though. I'm going to have to plug in tomorrow and make sure I'm not dreaming that. |
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Post by Wrnchbndr on Jan 12, 2020 10:51:13 GMT -5
What if you live in Australia?
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Post by Wrnchbndr on Jan 12, 2020 14:26:33 GMT -5
I really should get some reverse pots on inventory. I haven't dealt with a client who has noticed the difference on a left-handed guitar but I want to do the right thing.
Mentioned above is a comment that tone pots are bad to get wrong. I would think if that is the case, a linear pot would probably be better for a tone pot than a normal audio taper.
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Jan 12, 2020 16:10:38 GMT -5
Equally as critical are the usual .047uf (SC pups) and .022uf (HB pups) tone caps: they are too dang narrow! "Don't forget the left handed soldering iron." Also: if you smell something like bacon cooking, you're doing it wrong:  |
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Post by Leftee on Jan 12, 2020 16:21:27 GMT -5
I've never gone down the reverse pots road. I don't think I'd know how to act...
So... another thing to think about when using reverse audio taper pots. If the knobs are numbered, those will be backwards. You'll need lefty knobs.
2 years ago when I bought my Reverend Super Rev I had to open it up and reverse the pots' wiring. I actually wrote to Reverend about this. They wrote back and said that probably 2 people a year complain about that. So they didn't want to change the wiring. They said it would throw their dealers into a tizzy. I mentioned to them that the inspection card that came with the guitar was obviously inaccurate as the tone controls don't work when you wire a righty pot lefty. I also mentioned that Gibson uses righty pots and wires them righty (on lefty guitars). They said they'd discuss it.
I love Reverend - and that guitar. But dang...
SCIENCE!
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Jan 12, 2020 16:38:25 GMT -5
SCIENCE of SELLING!
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Post by 69tele on Jan 13, 2020 10:44:28 GMT -5
Don't forget the left handed soldering iron. bought one.. together with with my left handed piano ! |
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Post by Leftee on Jan 13, 2020 10:49:22 GMT -5
Step away from the left-handed accordion.
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Post by Wrnchbndr on Jan 13, 2020 13:05:25 GMT -5
About every three years I get a request to do a left-handed violin conversion. No I don't.
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Post by LM on Jan 13, 2020 17:17:45 GMT -5
Rather than rewire, I just put the batteries in backward.
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