What Controls?

[SamIV]

Anyone have an idea of what controls were on this body. It originally had three P90’s. One hole is the correct size for a standard pot, there is routing for the blade switch, but the other is smaller than what is required for a standard pot.

It is a Melancon body that was once owned by someone who works or worked for Line 6. I was told it was hanging on an office wall there and took a tumble to the floor. The body was replaced and the damaged one was given to me. I repaired most of the damage so far. I am going to eventually install mini-humbuckers, because it’s what I have. Curious how only one pot controlled all three pickups. Guess only volume?

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[mozz]

Standard full sized pots have 3/8" threads. Though you can buy full sized with smaller diameter, or mini pots would be smaller. Where is the output jack?

[BatUtilityBelt]

No idea, but I love that spalt.

[SamIV]

The hole for jack is on the bottom corner like an LP. I would not think he would have used mini pots, but there is a possibility. His guitars sold for $3000 and up new.

[toomanycats]

The full sized pot would be a volume/tone combo.

The smaller hole is for a mini toggle engaging something like phase, boost, whatever.

Just my guess.

[SamIV]

The smaller hole looks like it could have been a switch, but who knows what for. I will probably just drill it out and put a standard pot in it and wire it up like a Strat with a 5 way switch or a super switch.

[LancerTheGreat]

From what I could find they did master vol and and tone, a five-way pickup selector, and the ones with switches were listed as coil-tap or split. I’d guess this was just a master volume, pickup selector (obviously lol) and then a toggle switch for reverse phase, maybe an active eq or booster, or even a toggle button for a killswitch.

I’d do a concentric pot with volume and tone on it, and since you’re doing mini-hums, pop a switch in there for coil splitting so you can pretend it still has p90s.

[SamIV]

Good idea. Or I guess I could just drill another hole for another pot. Need to fill the trem holes, due to one being damaged. Also need to find a two point trem that will fit the same holes once drilled again. It’s an odd spacing from what I remember.

[LancerTheGreat]

Hey if it’s a toughy finding a bridge to fit, you can always fill both bridge holes and drill new entirely new ones to fit whatever bridge you wanna smack on there lol.

[andrewsrea]

You can do whatever you want with it right?

The switch could have been a 'sweet switch' which is basically a resistor and capacitor, set up to a fixed high pass to ground. Like your favorite tone knob setting at the flick of a switch. I installed one on a guitar i built which had limited real estate in the control cavity.