garrett
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The SE One is a great guitar. Among the best SE models made by PRS. Being a perpetual tinkerer, I've had a desire to get one and modify it. Now that I have bought one again and holiday weekend means too much time on my hands, I jumped right in.
The guitar photographs very well, but it's a beater really. A beater SE is a wonderful thing. They're such solid guitars and because they aren't worth much you don't have to worry too much about messing them up.
A common mod with these is to add a tone control. A tone knob is one thing I missed about the One I owned before, so I'm going to add one.
The routing under the guard is a rectangle. The stock volume pot sits in that back corner.
Most people seem to do this, which is to move the volume pot to the other corner of the cavity, and put a tone control in the stock volume slot. Easy peasy. All you need to do is drill a hole in the pickguard for the volume pot location. The controls are a bit tight, but workable.
If you use a mini pot for the tone control, it buys you a little bit more space if you are willing to move the tone pot hole. The original hole will be at least mostly covered by the knob. You can get even more space if you use a mini pot for the volume. I will be using a full size PRS volume pot, so it would look something like this:
If you are willing to remove some wood, you can gain a valuable 5/8" or so of extra room. This also means plugging the pickguard or getting a custom one made.
It wouldn't be good reality entertainment without annoying pauses at the dramatic parts, so I will go over what happened in the next installment. Rest assured: there will be mods and I will be a cheapskate about it...
The guitar photographs very well, but it's a beater really. A beater SE is a wonderful thing. They're such solid guitars and because they aren't worth much you don't have to worry too much about messing them up.
A common mod with these is to add a tone control. A tone knob is one thing I missed about the One I owned before, so I'm going to add one.
The routing under the guard is a rectangle. The stock volume pot sits in that back corner.
Most people seem to do this, which is to move the volume pot to the other corner of the cavity, and put a tone control in the stock volume slot. Easy peasy. All you need to do is drill a hole in the pickguard for the volume pot location. The controls are a bit tight, but workable.
If you use a mini pot for the tone control, it buys you a little bit more space if you are willing to move the tone pot hole. The original hole will be at least mostly covered by the knob. You can get even more space if you use a mini pot for the volume. I will be using a full size PRS volume pot, so it would look something like this:
If you are willing to remove some wood, you can gain a valuable 5/8" or so of extra room. This also means plugging the pickguard or getting a custom one made.
It wouldn't be good reality entertainment without annoying pauses at the dramatic parts, so I will go over what happened in the next installment. Rest assured: there will be mods and I will be a cheapskate about it...