Re: Followup - bypassing and removing volume/tone pots

Andy <nospam@> wrote:
Apologies for the new post, I've lost the old thread.

Well, I've finally had time to do the mods (remove pots and wire
straight to jack).

Things seem to be working fine (aside from the pickup selector being
back to front, an easy fix).

Now, being a Jazzmaster I also had an 'on-on' switch at my disposal on
the upper bout, so I changed it into a series/parallel switch.

Now is where I get confused again - my expectation is that in series
it should sound a little fatter/'bigger' but this is not the case. It
sounds noticeably fatter with both pickups on in parallel. Is this
due to the neck pickup bring RW/RP?

Thanks (again) in advance,
Andy.

Can you post a schematic, or explain in detail what you did?


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