Here's a home modding project I've been working on with a Peavey Raptor EXP Plus. These are basically "entry level" guitars, but the neck is super thin and playable, and I really liked the neck and middle single coils. They are definitely ceramic, but the combination of being overwound and perhaps the oversized pole pieces really gives them a great sparkle and punch.
Anyway, there's a single volume and master tone control. I don't know if the stock pots were 250k, but they are cheap components and starting to die anyway. I want to get some real CTS pots in there.
My question is this: How do you wire tone on Fat Strats? On another H-S-S guitar, I have a single 250k pot, except the bridge humbucker on that one is a TB-4 Seymour Duncan Trembucker, which is basically meant to be used with 250k.
In THIS guitar, I currently have a GFS Alnico Fat Pat, which I actually like. I've heard people say that it's similar to a JB/Trembucker in a lot of ways, so perhaps a 250k pot will be just fine. But I also (accidentally) won an eBay bid for some GFS Crunchy Rails:
They're pretty high-output, though I don't think they're as absurdly thick as the GFS Power Rails, or something like a Duncan Detonator or Invader. Some people use 500k or even 1000k pots on those to open them up.
Question: If it were your project, would you be okay with a 250k pot (.047 cap) for the GFS Fat Pat? What about for the Crunchy Rails?
