Hot Rodding my old Warlock, need advice - Popping my cherry here!!!!

[Inigo_Montoya]

I have an old, stock BC Rich Widow. It is a rare cheap guitar that plays like a dream. It has unbelievable action and plays so smoothly, I want to keep it. I am going to use it and the new amp exclusively from here on out. It is just that the rest of the guitar is pretty sub standard. I started turning it into a real guitar, but the tech that was helping me work through it passed away recently, and I don't know how to proceed. I cleared out a lot of unneeded gear and I sold my little amp and some extra stuff and bought the following items (all but the amp on his advice):

Bugera 6260212 Amp. I have coveted this thing since I first heard it. Simply the best "cheap" tube amp on the market.
Dimebag signature series pickup set
SD 500k pot for tone
LB-1-500 pot/switch

His intent was to use the lb-1 for volume and to switch between pickups and such and use the existing toggle to go between 250 and 500 on the pots. (?) I am not a technical guy, I was leaning heavily on him on this project, and now that I have sold my other guitars thinking this would be ready in a week or so, I am a sad guy.

I really need advice on what/how/where...

 

[ThunderLizard]

Re: Hot Rodding my old Warlock, need advice - Popping my cherry here!!!!

I'm having a difficult time grasping what you are wanting. The LB-1-500 is a potentiometer with screw in lugs instead of solder in ones. There is no switch with it. It sounds like you are wanting both 250 and 500K pots in your guitar for each pickup? I can almost understand why you would want to do this as the 250K pots would warm up the sound of the guitar but I see a problem. Both the B.C. Rich Warlock and the Widow (I'm not sure which one you have since you mention both) have a 2 volume 1 tone and 1 switch layout. In order to fit 3 more potentiometers plus a switch in there the cavity would have to be made much bigger and I'm not sure there is space in the guitar to do that.

 

[GuitarDoc]

Re: Hot Rodding my old Warlock, need advice - Popping my cherry here!!!!

Perhaps you could tell us exactly what you've got and what you want to end up with.

 

[Inigo_Montoya]

Re: Hot Rodding my old Warlock, need advice - Popping my cherry here!!!!

Perhaps you could tell us exactly what you've got and what you want to end up with.

I am more than comfortable doing a stock install, but (admittedly he was not sober at the time) he was describing how he was going to split poles and create the ability to go from 500 to 250k pots and this and that... ...I got everything out and laid it out, and I think I have my arms around what he was going to do.

The lb1-500 was just one he had bought with the order to test pickups. Wan't mine.
I have 4 push pull 500k knobs - 2 for volume and 2 for tone, and a 5 way switch. While I am not completely sure exactly what his plans were without a schematic. I know what he was doing.

Here is the thing. I am not a great guitarist. Add distortion and a good band and I "sound" pretty good, but I am a realist, and I know that beyond metal I am a poor guitarist. I am not sure I need all of the tonal variance that splitting pickups and reversing polarity add - I just don't think it matters to me.

He was clearly going to rout the body to add an additional tone and volume. Is that really necessary? If so, I will do it pronto, but I don't know that I need 2 sets of pots.

Short of a good reason to add another pair of pots, I will just wire it stock with new volume and tone pots along with a new 1/4" jack.

Thoughts?

 

[RoteGitarre]

Re: Hot Rodding my old Warlock, need advice - Popping my cherry here!!!!

Short of a good reason to add another pair of pots, I will just wire it stock with new volume and tone pots along with a new 1/4" jack.

Thoughts?

Sounds like a plan.



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