Hofner 63 Verythin, verywierd

[p4ul]

Hello chatters! I have an issue that i have been living with for a while with my old gal but have decided to investigate, so I pulled the guts out of her to see what’s up and the electrics are clearly not original and are wired in such a way That The bridge tone is all treble immediately and it’s been that way since I had it so I am wondering if whoever rewired it fudged it or if one of the caps might just be dead ? Any wiremen here have a scoob?  I have looked for the OG harness and the Hoff VT Classic i found looks nothing like mine plus the caps are diff values. Any thoughts?

pls excuse my horrible diagram.

[Hellzero]

The anti-bleeding capacitors are certainly not 22nF, but more 22pF!

 

Here's another wiring diagram, which seems more accurate:

 

[p4ul]

Thats great, looks much more logical than the present lash up! Better dust off the iron

 

the caps i suspect are OG and are super hard to read

Edited February 2 by p4ul

[p4ul]

The fact that 500k pots were used instead of 250k prolly fubard the capacitance in any case.. gonna rebuild from sctratch.

[p4ul]

James home of tone is amazeballs, thanks again for the info

[Chienmortbb]

When I was a guitars, in the Stone Age, I lusted after a Verithin but they went out of favour once we could lust after Les Paul’s and Strats. 
 

I suspect they would give an ES335 a run for its money when fully restored. 

[p4ul]

Weeel I put her back together again as per the very helpful Home of Tone diag with some nifty braided cable, and a new earth line to the bridge [old one was MIA] was a bit of a faff, but some thickish [3mm] strimmer line helped me guide the pots etc in to the apertures. I did say a rude word or two.

I re-used the OG caps, and the tone is still all or nothing, so I am planning on these 100n caps to replace the very old and maybe dead 01.uf [100n] caps. I cannot for the life of me find 0.1uf / 12v "dime" caps, but pretty sure the voltage has little to no effect.

Bass still sounds good, very "thomp thomp" as one would expect, just the tone needs sorting, unless this is how it should be? pitch dark or brighter than the sun, who knows.

Edited February 27 by p4ul