Thank you. I had someone solder some Fishman Stephen Carpenter 6 string signature pickups and pots in my first good guitar I've ever had. I never noticed the job he did and it looks pretty bad. It's an orange Ibanez RG320fm which you can find today for around $200. They were made in 2003 and fantastic Strats. But I noticed the ground wire came off one of the pots and now I see the job he did doesn't look that great so I'm thinking about redoing everything because I know I can do a better job. It is my guitar so of course I'd care to do better. Anyways, thank you for the tips!
I recently got my guitar setup and i asked for new pots, after i got it i check if they said 500k because it has humbuckers, and the pot says "made in korea jinsung" and thats it, is that a real pot or a fake that theyve installed.
Pots are made in numerous places. The 3 main places pots that are used in guitars are made being China, USA and Korea. All vary in quality, but Korean and American pots tend to be higher quality as a general rule. Hope that helps
Scratching it a bit before adding solder is genius thank you for the tip
You can also use fine sanding paper and earn the entire pot surface for wiring :)
Well duh
There is zero need for it if you solder properly.
Love the emphasis on ‘pre tinned’ wire. Perfection is never rushing the simpler tasks so the simple tasks don’t look rushed.
I’ve burned so many pots… I wish someone had shown me this like 15 years ago👍🏼
Yeah, I wish youtube was around back then also...lol.
Thank you. I had someone solder some Fishman Stephen Carpenter 6 string signature pickups and pots in my first good guitar I've ever had. I never noticed the job he did and it looks pretty bad. It's an orange Ibanez RG320fm which you can find today for around $200. They were made in 2003 and fantastic Strats. But I noticed the ground wire came off one of the pots and now I see the job he did doesn't look that great so I'm thinking about redoing everything because I know I can do a better job. It is my guitar so of course I'd care to do better. Anyways, thank you for the tips!
Thanks! This is more helpful than you might think
This is really helpful. Thank you
Is there a temp range that is best for the iron?
I just can't do this, tin won't stick to the pot
Scratching up and covering pot codes? Just like putting pepsi in a coke glass, you dont give a damn
Nice tip! You da Man.
Thank you
TEMPERATURE ????? (duh....soldering iron temperature)
Real question, why is there no flux being used?
Because he’s using flux-core solder.
@@jts3339 Okay, that makes sense. Don’t know why that didn’t occur to me lol. Thank you
What do you use to scrape it?
I'm wondering the same thing.
I’m guessing this is flux-cored solder?
I think that's not needed.
most solder has flux in it except its called rosin core
But why we do solder on potentiometer pot? Instead of other place.
It’s for grounding
Basically, the pot shell produces no sound, and “ground goes to zero sound”
Also, for redundancy and to maximize how quiet “zero sound” actually is
@@LuisRamirez-yg5cw thank u for the correct information brother🌸.
That's an ugly solder job. You need to use some flux with that
Looks fine, will work perfectly fine, and you won't even be able to see it when the cover is on. Big whoop
How not to solder......
I recently got my guitar setup and i asked for new pots, after i got it i check if they said 500k because it has humbuckers, and the pot says "made in korea jinsung" and thats it, is that a real pot or a fake that theyve installed.
Pots are made in numerous places. The 3 main places pots that are used in guitars are made being China, USA and Korea.
All vary in quality, but Korean and American pots tend to be higher quality as a general rule.
Hope that helps
British soldering is way better than American soddering
Nice job too