Help -- I connected my new pickups, but ...

[dubtrub]

Guitar Center has pots. Probably most music stores would have them (behind the counter in a drawer). CTS pots are good also Apha pots.

[vetovideo]

Maybe give these people a call and see what they've got. http://www.warmoth.com/500K-Pot-By-CTS-P129.aspx

[Mr. Bill]

The original pots were metric shafts, the standard being 6mm. All US made pots will have 1/4 in shafts that will be too big to fit the original knobs.

If you want to reuse the orignial knobs, you will need to buy metric sized pots. Try StewMac, they may have what you need.

[Tsunami Tom]

Thanks again to everybody for their help. I was still struggling with the wiring until yesterday, when I spotted a newly posted add on eBay for a Japanese Mosrite with 3 pickups. The add has a good picture of the wiring, which grounds the pots a bit different from how I have tried it. I went home at lunch and wired my Mosrite similar to this and -- Success! The pickups sound fantastic and the tone and volume are working fine.

I used two pots that I bought from Guitar Center. The shafts fit the knobs fine; however, I did have to make the holes in the pickguard a bit larger.

I posted a similar response yesterday, but I don't see it. Perhaps I inserted the images wrong. So, in case you're interested, here is a homemade diagram of the way that I have wired the pickups:

http://www.oberlin.edu/staff/thinders/wiring/MosriteWiring11.pdf

http://www.oberlin.edu/staff/thinders/w ... ring11.pdf

Notice that I did ground the second outer leg of the tone pot. Mr. Bill mentioned that this will cause some slight loading on the pickups and others advised against doing this; however, everything is working. Plus, the tone of the pickups is amazing and I'm very pleased with how this turned out. Also, the wiring in the eBay add did it this way. So, I'm going to leave it alone, unless somebody tells me that I'm damaging something by doing it this way. So many of the pictures showing Mosrite wiring that I've collected have it this way. Confusing, but, like I said, since everything is working and sounding like it should, at least for now I'm going to keep it this way.

Thanks again!
Tom

[dubtrub]

Your drawing is spot on for the way all Mosrites are wired.

[MWaldorf]

[Tsunami Tom]

Thanks Mel! Sweet!

[SanchoPansen]

Wire it exactly as in the photo above or in the diagram below and it should work fine. The photo's are original untouched Mosrite wiring.

Hey folks, is there any really good drawing of this wiring scheme? I'd love to get it as a tattoo (no kidding!), but I would prefer a proper drawing.
I'd also take one from Hallmark, to get it tattooed. Thanks in advance.

Cheers
Sancho

[Greg_L]

That one from Mel is pretty awesome tattoo material.