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Richard Martin

Richard Martin

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It's New Knob Day. I recently started upgrading my Fender Jazz Aerodyne. Part of the job was upgrading the cheap Chinese 60 cent pots. That's actually the reason for the upgrade. I was at band practice and went to turn one of them up and it was scratchy. The guitar isn't old enough to start doing that so I just went ahead and upgraded the pots to CTS Brass solid shaft pots. I would have prefered to keep the original knobs but the CTS pots weren't split like the old ones and the CTS pots have a larger shaft. I had some Fender Jazz knobs laying around from another project so I put those on there. I didn't really care for the totally blacked out knobs so I spent about a week looking at about 1 million different knobs. I couldn't find anything that I liked so I had Justin Tillinger (JT guitar parts on Reverb.com) make up a set. In keeping with the black and aged ivory binding theme of the Aerodyne, he made me a set that are creme and black. What do you guys (and gals) think?
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Richard Martin said:
It's New Knob Day. I recently started upgrading my Fender Jazz Aerodyne. Part of the job was upgrading the cheap Chinese 60 cent pots. That's actually the reason for the upgrade. I was at band practice and went to turn one of them up and it was scratchy. The guitar isn't old enough to start doing that so I just went ahead and upgraded the pots to CTS Brass solid shaft pots. I would have prefered to keep the original knobs but the CTS pots weren't split like the old ones and the CTS pots have a larger shaft. I had some Fender Jazz knobs laying around from another project so I put those on there. I didn't really care for the totally blacked out knobs so I spent about a week looking at about 1 million different knobs. I couldn't find anything that I liked so I had Justin Tillinger (JT guitar parts on Reverb.com) make up a set. In keeping with the black and aged ivory binding theme of the Aerodyne, he made me a set that are creme and black. What do you guys (and gals) think? View attachment 3682486 View attachment 3682487
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Someone from Fender should be on here taking notes. Those look awesome on that bass!
 
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Nice look!

question - with your QP set...
What capacitor did the bass have? And did you re-use it?

I have sets in my Jazz V’s (both fretted and Fretless), and I have found that a .047uF cap seems to cut out too many mids beyond 50%. I recently went with a .022 in both basses, and it has allowed them to retain more midrange.
 
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Amazing! I am looking to change the knobs- Pots in my Aerodyne. I've contacted JAT Custom Guitar Parts. Thanks for the recommendation!
Besides the pots sold by Stratosphere what does everyone recommend?
 

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