Recent content by Simon_Smith

No worries! The pots and the caps for the tone pots came from Northwest Guitars and the treble bleed caps came from WD Music, both in the UK. I actually used an abrasive pad thing that I've had knocking around for ages, at a guess it's about a 400 grit. I'd be interested to hear how the PRS...

Thanks! It's definitely given me some confidence to do more one day.

Repeat for the other tone pot noting the different wire colours, then it's just the treble bleeds to go... I cut them to a sensible length, added some heat shrink to the tips of the legs as there was a bare ground cable near one of them and then soldered them straight in. Add some new zip ties...

Once the pot is off you will have this: https://photos.app.goo.gl/ocz26ndsoguGTkQKA Next is to take the heat shrink of the coil split wires. I used some really pointy electronics snips to cut up the back: https://photos.app.goo.gl/iTMMrhhzTWzbsuCh7 Then you are ready to solder on the new...

Then remove the knobs... I used a spare shoe lace as shown under this vol pot knob, just pull up carefully and don't fire it across the room. https://photos.app.goo.gl/N4ypjSvNYGBKsqqB6 Then undo and pull out the pot ready for desoldering (you need an 11mm socket for the nuts). I cut off the...

I used some Alpha push pull pots (500k audio taper) which were a bit disappointing in that they turn very freely compared to the non push pull Alphas in there already. Advantage of these though is that there is no widening of holes and you can reuse the same knobs. First job was to solder...

So, i've just finished rewiring my ZM as per the diagram. I was happy with the 2.2k partial split resistor for the bridge, but changed the 1.1k to a 1.5k for the neck. More photos to follow, but this was the starting point... https://photos.app.goo.gl/PjKHbX9wibcRQVhP7

Like this! https://photos.app.goo.gl/JWuzGJajuNRyEpzU9

Essentially just move the switch parts of the vol pots to the tone pots... I might draw it out at some point... But will wait until I have the switches.

Not really, I thought tone made more sense to start with, but I've seen guitars with it done either way. I think I settled on the volume pots as it's makes the wiring sightly easier (not having to stretch the pickup wires to both pots) and when playing I figured the vol pots are a touch closer...

The wire colours according to the PRS diagram... http://www.prsguitars.com/documents/se_245_se_zach_myers__wiring_schematics.pdf

Revised drawing... https://photos.app.goo.gl/57P36CHUXrb7UYYSA

To be fair, I think that bit is just plain wrong. I was trying to make it so that when the bridge HB was split, then the coil closest to the bridge was active. You're right though the way I've done it just won't work. There may be a way of doing it, but I think I would be better off with the...

Ah never mind, thanks. What pickups for you switch to, out of interest? I'm quite happy with my stock ones, but I'm no tone guru.

Thanks for confirming the link. Were you happy with the sound? I don't suppose you've got any photos of the inside have you? Would be great to see how someone else has done it first, before I go start messing with it!