Help Replacing EMG's with Passives

[austin]

So I've decided to replace the EMG SA and 85 in my Jackson Archtop Soloist with passive pickups, mostly because I want to put a single-coil humbucker type pickup (like a Hot Rails) in the neck slot. This is going to mean totally replacing all the electronics, which is going to be a PITA anyway, but will even harder because the EMG pots are mini-sized (and since my guitar has an archtop, special cavities were routed out that exactly fit the EMG pots). I would have put in some Hamer pots (2 volume and 1 tone), but those are too big to fit. Anyone know of some excellent quality mini-pots I can put in there that will fit the same knobs I have on there now)? They're just pots, so price is no object! :laughing:

-Austin

 

[JB_From_Hell]

Re: Help Replacing EMG's with Passives

I'd assume CTS makes mini-pots. There's nothing about them that's exclusive to EMG.

 

[DepecheMoses]

Re: Help Replacing EMG's with Passives

BAM!
Don't know how the quality is on 'em, but I tend to trust that site for some reason.

 

[BRHGM]

Re: Help Replacing EMG's with Passives

CTS makes mini pots. Check at Allparts. Will probably want to go with 500k pots if you use a big humbucker. Youll have to take everything out to rewire them because of the way archtops are made.

 

[austin]

Re: Help Replacing EMG's with Passives

Hmm, couldn't actually find any CTS-branded pots that were minis, but it looks like http://guitarpartsresource.com/ has what I need (2 push-pull volume pots for splitting the pickups and 1 mini-pot for master tone). Thanks guys!

-Austin