Albert Lee BFR...Neked!! Pics of Musicap install

[jamminjim]

Is it therefore correct to say that longer leads equals greater inductance? The big oil/paper cap would require longer leads.

Yeah I guess so, however miniscule that inductance is, it would be greater. In this case, use the lower voltage rated paper in oil (PIO) caps which would be smaller. In my earlier post I show one. Rated at 200 volts (which is 199volts of overkill in a passive-guitar circuit.) Should be much smaller.

 

[candid_x]

Gotcha. Mine is 600 volts, way overkill. In fact that's my overall impression of the matter. And possibly robbing Peter to pay Paul. More than likely one minuscule adjustment on the amp's eq will have a greater effect than a 410 shotgun shell sized capacitor in the guitar.

But hey, to each their own Balls.

 

[jamminjim]

Should be much smaller.

To clarify, I meant the body of the capacitor should be smaller. And in the other pic of the one I posted on ebay, it's not much bigger than a dime. Would fit well between the two pots like the stock cap I would think. Thus keeping the leads as short as possible. As the voltage rating goes down so does the size of the PIO cap. Other than size and cost, the voltage rating of caps isn't really important in this case. The other concern of longer leads is the possibility of picking up induced noise on them. Don't think it's much of a concern in this case either.

For anyone who wants to make a no-load tone pot here's a tutorial. I've done it and it's not hard at all.
Project Guitar :: Checking DC resistance on your potentiometers

another thing one could do is bypass the tone pot altogether - lift the white wire input.

 

[jamhandy]

Just when I was getting good with my new found minor 7th flat 5 chords...

 

[Tim O'Sullivan]

If you are happy with it, all is well and good! Mind you, I also remove the tone pots from my guitars, so I can't even comment on the in's and outs of this debate!

 

[jamminjim]

Do you take the tone pots "out" physically? OR simply disconnect them?

 

[Tim O'Sullivan]

Do you take the tone pots "out" physically? OR simply disconnect them?

In the case of my ASS - the whole lot is taken out!

 

[jamminjim]

Ok

Tim, that's cool;I'll bet everyone else knows about this guitar but for posterity...
......give up the skinny on your ASS bro.

That's a pretty cool top, great shade of green. So do tell......

 

[Spudmurphy]

Hee hee - I know how Tim had this done and it's a nice little story to tell. So over to you Tim ... ... ... ... ...

 

[Tim O'Sullivan]

Well it was Charlie Chandler that did it for me. He plugged the hole with a dowel, and then scraped some overspray from one of the pickup cavities onto the dowel plug. He did this whilst adding a few layers of laquer in and around the area, and its really barely noticable! It really does show what a genius he is!

If you catch it in the right light, or take a picture with a flash you can just see how its done.

I wish BP would make me a BFR green Axis SS without this 2nd tone pot hole drilled!

 

[luv]

awesome...very cool. thanks for sharing tim.

 

[jamminjim]

Well it was Charlie Chandler that did it for me. He plugged the hole with a dowel, and then scraped some overspray from one of the pickup cavities onto the dowel plug. He did this whilst adding a few layers of laquer in and around the area, and its really barely noticable! It really does show what a genius he is!

If you catch it in the right light, or take a picture with a flash you can just see how its done.

Charlie shure is good at what he does. Very nice work. Thanks for spillin the beans

I wish BP would make me a BFR green Axis SS without this 2nd tone pot hole drilled!

Have you asked EBMM if they could do it?

 

[Tim O'Sullivan]

Have you asked EBMM if they could do it?

No, because I know custom orders are a no-no....

 

[jamminjim]

Resurrecting the thread

I picked up some Russian Paper in Oil capacitors. From Lithuania. All of them are good and within +/- 5% of .047uf. Great for guitars. So I installed one in my Silo, and here it is.

I think my Silo now has a little more detail and clarity. But I'm going to take more time to evaluate. Sounds pretty good though. ....

These are K40Y-9 and .047 200V PIO's. Plenty of room to mount them in the body of most EBMM guitars. Anyone interested in trying one out? PM me.

 

[lenny]

Those are great ..the Hovland ones look alot bigger in the pics ...there is no problem fitting them in the cavity ....and as you use them more you will notice more of an increase in the detail and clarity of your notes ...they need a breakin period...also i find that i hear more when using a tube amp rather than solid state ...more as it happens!