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I have a SG and I want to change the tone pots to switches. (tone all the way open, or all the way closed) Right now its wired like the diagram below. how can I wire it for switches?

Figured it out!!!!

i like this idea

Cool. Did you use a resistor to make the "all the way open" position replicate having the pot turned all the way up? Or did you just switch the cap in and out of ground to make it more like removing the tone circuit versus tone all the way down?

It's like an instant "woman tone" switch.

kevinhifi wrote:Cool. Did you use a resistor to make the "all the way open" position replicate having the pot turned all the way up? Or did you just switch the cap in and out of ground to make it more like removing the tone circuit versus tone all the way down?

It's like an instant "woman tone" switch.

It switches the cap in and out of ground. I liked the sound of not having a tone knob, it sounded more open and clean, but I also liked rolling the tone knob all the way done with slight distortion. So it worked very well in my favor!

Genius!

I know your problem is settled but if you find your tone too dark or whatever you should try this

put an hight value cap on top lugs, and a low on the other side, then... change them to got the right tone

and you if you got the schematic of what you did I would really like to see it

I've been considering doing this very thing, Nieh. I took the tone knob out of my strat years ago, and I've been missing the tone change it had when it was in there still, just slightly rolled off. I was going to do it with a trimpot, though.

There are potentiometers where the shaft of the pot uses a push-pull action to toggle a switch. I don't know if the SG has a thick enough body to accommodate such a pot (I presume it does, but I've never measured). Instead of having those switches alone as your picture shows, if you wanted, you could have preserved the look of the guitar by swapping out the tone pots for push-pull pots and then wired up the switches on the push-pull pots to engage the potentiometer when you pull out the tone knob. Admittedly, the more usual configuration is to have the tone pot always engaged with the shaft down, and then to pull up the knob to bypass the pot, but it's your guitar so you should wire it in the way you prefer. Here's what a push-pull pot looks like:

http://www.guitarcenter.com/DiMarzio-50 ... 4WWRWXGB&=

I just grabbed that picture because it was the quickest g00GLy result. I tend to use CTS brand pots.

I have a push-pull pot wired to my bridge humbucker to switch it from series (down) to parallel (up) when I want to quickly clean up the tone.