robin
Joined: 07 Mar 2008
Posts: 7
Location: Bucks
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 Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 1:52 pm Post subject: Left Handed Guitar Controls |
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Left Handed Guitar controls I have found........ are something of a compromise.....I always thought that the volume and sometimes the tone also...had a poor range and acted more like a switch on all my guitars...
When I eventually investigated I found that they have r/h guitar controls
fitted...... and asking around it seems to be widely understood that this is done for economic reasons , it appears not to be worthwhile for the manufacturers to buy in small quantities of componts as left handed guitars are still a small percentage of total sales...
..........the good news is that they are quite easy to swap over .....Allparts.........and probably other sources too , sell the correct potentiometers for left handed guitars . You have to ask for anti-log pots as opposed to the normal logarithmic ones . ...
I have swapped several guitars over now and it makes them so much more comfortable to use ....
..the only slight probem I found was that the splines on the shaft of the new pots were different and I had to buy new knobs too to fit them ......
..another alternative which I have found it to use linear potentiometers instead . These are the third sort of pots which offer equal changes in resistance with equal degrees of movement . ......lots of guitars use these for the tone control anyway , and the ones on sale by Allparts have splines to suit my control knobs....
Using a linear pot as the volume is not a problem , as the way in which the volume pot is wired in a guitar is not really like a conventional potential divider . As you turn the pot down the "un-used" part of the track is getting inserted in series with the pickup in use , so dropping the volume a little faster than a linear pot might normally .....
I have guitars converted both ways now , and it is hard to tell the difference........
If anyone wants details of how to identify which pot is which , I can put some details on my website.......... |
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