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Which type/.value pot for a PJ tone please?


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Just scored this 2005 Indonesian Cort Squier PJ and as well as a dodgy connection which caused the sound to short out, it was wired wrongly and the tone seemed to operate only over the last 20% of travel and more like another volume. I did a quick swap with a pot lying around in my bits box, re-did the wire so it works as a tone now across 100% of travel,  but have no idea what type I replaced or fitted. Does anyone know what value the pot should be and  should it be log or linear please?

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I like linear  250k ohm pots.

I too have a Squier PJ and looked at upgrading the pots to "normal" sized ones, but I'm sure they won't fit in the body recess. What's worse is I think the pick guard isn't big enough to cover the cut-out if I did rout the hole bigger.

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The volume from the split-coil pickup on any PJ is massively bigger than the J pickup.

I have also changed the split-coil on mine. There is so little copper on the Squier pickups they hardly weigh anything. So I changed for a Jess Loureireo  hand-wound Classic P. It's a fantastic improvement. 

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