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by J Burns_Archive
J. Burns wrote:The wiring on my Iceman is shot don't know if it's the shitty stock pots or my shitty soldering or what, ordered a wiring harness with 500k long-shaft CTS pots. Hope that shows up soon. I hate soldering. Need to find my lost soldering iron so I don't have to keep borrowing Adam's. Wiring harness arrived yesterday, bought $8 Radio Shack soldering iron today. Turns out, I didn't need the long-shaft pots. The last time I tried to change the pots on this guitar, I got shipped pots with a 1/4" thread (wtf?) and didn't realize until now that they were super-short. This whole time, I thought Ibanez was using some sort of mutant 1/2" threaded pot. 3/8" would have been fine. Oh well. I used an extra set of washers and nuts and now have the pots hovering nearly half an inch above the surface of the control cavity. This made soldering the pickups and switch a lot easier, actually. Totally a happy accident. Finished wiring it up at 11:30 pm, so I've only tried it through the Bassman on 1 with the Little Big Muff in front, but it sounds pretty raging so far. Will probably use at the upcoming USS Horsequit show. Have a generic humbucker mounted in the neck position but not installed because the leads are too short. Will probably replace with a Duncan Jazz or some cheap GFS stuff in the near future when funds allow. Located multimeter, tested a Duncan that I didn't know was trashed or not, measured a healthy 13.7k, threw it in the bridge position. The stock knobs don't fit on the new pots unfortunately, so I have to buy some split-shaft dome knobs in the near future. Man, oh man do I hate those flush-mount jack Ibanez uses. Next tech tasks: Attempt fret level/dress on Epiphone Elitist Les Paul Custom when radius block shows up.Replace stock pickups in Squier Super-Sonic with the Duncan set I recently yanked out of my Les Paul Studio.