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More H-150 surgery :)


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Hi all,

 

bit more surgery on my H-150 today. I recently replaced the SD 59s with Phat Cats and also swapped out the rubbish pickup mounting rings at the same time.

 

Today I swapped out the stock .022 caps for .033 Sprague Orange Drops and I went for a slight rework on the wiring as defined by the Seymour Duncan diagram in one of the photos.

 

Here are some pics for those interested in the steps I took.

 

OrangeDrops004.jpg

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OrangeDrops006.jpg

OrangeDrops007.jpg

OrangeDrops008.jpg

OrangeDrops009.jpg

OrangeDrops010.jpg

 

Finally, these are the caps that were in there - some no name 0.022s. Anyone know what brand these are? Heritage have used them in each of my guitars.

OrangeDrops011.jpg

 

Tone report: I'm a bit disappointed so far. I seem to have lost the clarity I had before in the bridge and the neck seems muddier too.

 

According to what I know about capacitors, this muddiness shouldn't be happening just because of the cap value change. So, I'm tempted to blame it on the removal of the cap bridging the volume to the tone pot in each case and I'm planning to revert to the old wiring style (but using the Orange Drops instead of the stock caps). That will have to wait until next weekend though...

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You know what I noticed... You have a barrel jack input!!! If I was ever to get a special order, that is the one feature I would definitely expect.

 

Have you notice how all the seymour diagrams show grounding the cap itself on the tone pot itself??? Most of the times I see everyone grounding it on the volume pot.

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You know what I noticed... You have a barrel jack input!!! If I was ever to get a special order, that is the one feature I would definitely expect.

 

Have you notice how all the seymour diagrams show grounding the cap itself on the tone pot itself??? Most of the times I see everyone grounding it on the volume pot.

Didn't notice the jack, to be honest, but then it IS a Heritage :)

 

I think the cap grounding onto the tone pot is where I've lost my 'Limey Chime' :(

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In your picture it looks as if you have one end of the cap grounded on the tone pot & going to the middle terminal on the pot with the other end going to volume pot..... Should be one end of cap is grounded(ground)... the other side will go to middle terminal without touching ground!

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