Please help me wire out my tone control

[newby oldfart]

Hi. My current setup is 2 Seymour Duncan Humbuckers, 1 neck,1 bridge with a 5 way blade style selecter, 1 volume and 1 tone control. I would like to wire out and remove the tone knob so I can move the volume knob to the vacant tone knob hole. Cant find a diagram, hoping someone can help me, Thank you.

 

[Mincer]

What does the 5 way blade do?

 

[beaubrummels]

Sounds like you have a traditional Strat guard with 3 holes but are only using two of them. I'm not following why moving the pots to available holes changes the wiring at all.

 

[Artie]

A tone control, (consisting of pot & cap), only has two connections: ground and the hot point where it's connected. Just remove it.

Remove the red wire. Then take any grounds on the tone pot, and simply reconnect them to the ground lug, (sleeve), of the output jack.

 

[newby oldfart]

What does the 5 way blade do?

What does the 5 way blade do?

A tone control, (consisting of pot & cap), only has two connections: ground and the hot point where it's connected. Just remove it.

Remove the red wire. Then take any grounds on the tone pot, and simply reconnect them to the ground lug, (sleeve), of the output jack.

What does the 5 way blade do?

Hi sorry for the delayed response. It splits the humbuckers. Looks kike I got my answer below. Thank you.

 

[newby oldfart]

Sounds like you have a traditional Strat guard with 3 holes but are only using two of them. I'm not following why moving the pots to available holes changes the wiring at all.

Sorry for the late response, life got in the way. Its a ibanez with a two humbucker pick guard . 1 tone, i volume, The volume is too close to the bridge for my playing, I never use the tone control, so I just want to remove the tone and move the volume to the 2nd hole. Looks like someone told me how below. Thanks.

 

[newby oldfart]

A tone control, (consisting of pot & cap), only has two connections: ground and the hot point where it's connected. Just remove it.

Remove the red wire. Then take any grounds on the tone pot, and simply reconnect them to the ground lug, (sleeve), of the output jack.

Perfect. I will wire it out this weekend. Thank you so much!

 

[Artie]

I forgot to mention: if you remove the tone control, you may find the guitar to be too bright. Even on "10", a tone control still has some affect.

If this turns out to be the case, just connect a 500k resistor, and your old cap in series, and solder them either across the output jack terminals, or across the outer two lugs of the volume pot.

 

[newby oldfart]

I forgot to mention: if you remove the tone control, you may find the guitar to be too bright. Even on "10", a tone control still has some affect.

If this turns out to be the case, just connect a 500k resistor, and your old cap in series, and solder them either across the output jack terminals, or across the outer two lugs of the volume pot.

Great information, Artie. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with me. God bless you!