No problem!Thanks so much for posting these, I've been most curious to get a peek behind the curtain.
Odd that the middle pickup has red markings on the pole pieces, but the others do not.It looks very tidy. Not unexpected from PRS, but still nice to see.
Odd that the middle pickup has red markings on the pole pieces, but the others do not.
Good call!The pickups as I understand are all the same, except for the middle being reverse wound. I guess the red dots on the middle pup are there to recognize the difference during assembly.
Yup... sure looks that way to me too.The nut slot depth is pretty similar to my non PRS guitars. PRS sets theirs unusually deep in most of their guitars.
Anyway, I've never seen this before and wonder why they would want to change the pot's value?
This is interesting. There's a resistor between the hot and ground on the volume pot. I can see the top band is red, bottom is gold, but can't make out the 2 other colors. Sort of looks like Red, green, blue but that would be 25 million ohms. That's a lot! Wouldn't effect anything in a guitar circuit. If it's red green black that would be 25 ohms. That's not very much! that would have huge impacts on the guitar's sound. Quite likely make very little sound come out of it at all. Any resistor in there would alter the resistance value of the pot.
Anyway, I've never seen this before and wonder why they would want to change the pot's value?
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Maybe Paul is playing a Jedi JM mind trick, and taking whatever value the pot tests at, and putting in whatever resistor makes it match JMs perfect resistance value. Wouldn't that blow you away.
Seriously, pots have by far the biggest variance of any "good" parts used in amps, pedals or whatever. You can easily get 1% variance in caps and 5% in resistors, but even "good" pots usually test around 20-25% variance from spec. (Unless PRS starts using really high end pots like some of the Bourn or something. Heck the best ones wouldn't even fit in a guitar!) Like I said, I've read amp and pedal makers before say they sold off as much as 70% of what they bought and only kept those within say 5% of the value they wanted.
Odd that the middle pickup has red markings on the pole pieces, but the others do not.