Blender pot questions

Spark

Spark

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Now that I have made a no load tone pot (thanks to John's tutorial) I want to move on to a blender pot. I had most of my questions answered by searching previous posts (lots of great stuff here - thanks to Lew, Artie, Ken and several others), but I am still not clear on a couple of things:

How much does the pots resistance value matter? Do I just stick with what I'm already using for the tone pots (250K for Strat, 500K for hum/rails/rails)?

Which is more preferable - linear or audior taper ?

Thanks guys! :thanks:
 
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I'd just buy a Fralin Blender pot for $10 and be done with it!

Since the blender pot is a no load pot that breaks the connection when turned to 10, I'd think 250K would work fine.

You realize it works in reverse, right? When you turn it down to zero it adds 100% of the pickup you are adding to whatever pickup the selector switch is set to.

Lew
 
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When I put one in my Strat I'm going to just get the Fralin pot from you Lew, but I figured for my Franken-Tokai (Tokai strat style body, Jackson/Charvel style neck, Original Floyd, D-Tuna) I would try to make one since that is my experimenting guitar anyway.

Do you know if the Fralins blend pots are audio or linear tapered, or if it even matters?
 
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I am going to guess that they are a reverse taper audio pot...only because that's what would make sense. I do know Lindy has them specially made these days. They're not an off the shelf item. Lew
 
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