Philipp Elfers
New Member
Hello folks,
this is my first post in this great community and its because i´ve got a problem. I purchased a Silver Sky in August this year and like many people here wondered about the loose or wobbeling pots, however you may call it. I played the guitar in some rehearsals and also on a few smaller gigs.
But at the end of october, i started having issues with my volume pot. It didnt mute the guitar properly anymore when i rolled it back, instead it sounds more like a tone pot. The mistake started to appear from time to time, but not constantly. A few weeks later it got worse, because I couldnt roll the volume down at all. I decided to send the guitar back to the dealer where i purchased It, because its a case of warranty. The technician found a cold solder joint o a mass cable and fixed it.
When the guitar returned to me four weeks later, I noticed that the old issue was still there and the cold solder joint was not the reason of the not working volume pot. I called the technician of the dealer and he recommended to install a gibson pot, because its more solid and maybe wont get broken that fast again. Otherwise he could install a PRS Silver Sky pot instead, but I am afraid that it could be get broken again after time.
This is a difficult question or decision, and thats why I wanted to ask this great community for help.
Do you have experience with broken Silver Sky volume pots or other PRS pots?
How did you solve it, and what would you recommend for me?
Is there technically a difference between the gibson pots and the one from PRS if you use the same resistance range?
I actually played one bigger show last weekend with the broken pot and ended up muting the guitar with my pedalboard.
But I definately want the problem to get repaired.
By the way, Im an elecrical engineering student, so you can talk to me on a technical level. Before you ask: I cuould fix it by myself, but ist still warranty on that guitar and im afraid that I would damage more becaus ive got no experience in repairing guitars worth over 2500 bucks.
I open for your thinkings and opinions about this.
I hope you all have a great day, Greetings from Germany,
Phil
this is my first post in this great community and its because i´ve got a problem. I purchased a Silver Sky in August this year and like many people here wondered about the loose or wobbeling pots, however you may call it. I played the guitar in some rehearsals and also on a few smaller gigs.
But at the end of october, i started having issues with my volume pot. It didnt mute the guitar properly anymore when i rolled it back, instead it sounds more like a tone pot. The mistake started to appear from time to time, but not constantly. A few weeks later it got worse, because I couldnt roll the volume down at all. I decided to send the guitar back to the dealer where i purchased It, because its a case of warranty. The technician found a cold solder joint o a mass cable and fixed it.
When the guitar returned to me four weeks later, I noticed that the old issue was still there and the cold solder joint was not the reason of the not working volume pot. I called the technician of the dealer and he recommended to install a gibson pot, because its more solid and maybe wont get broken that fast again. Otherwise he could install a PRS Silver Sky pot instead, but I am afraid that it could be get broken again after time.
This is a difficult question or decision, and thats why I wanted to ask this great community for help.
Do you have experience with broken Silver Sky volume pots or other PRS pots?
How did you solve it, and what would you recommend for me?
Is there technically a difference between the gibson pots and the one from PRS if you use the same resistance range?
I actually played one bigger show last weekend with the broken pot and ended up muting the guitar with my pedalboard.

By the way, Im an elecrical engineering student, so you can talk to me on a technical level. Before you ask: I cuould fix it by myself, but ist still warranty on that guitar and im afraid that I would damage more becaus ive got no experience in repairing guitars worth over 2500 bucks.
I open for your thinkings and opinions about this.
I hope you all have a great day, Greetings from Germany,
Phil