This video now must be sent to guitar factories so they think about it a little more. So often hi ends guitars too have installed right handed pots wired reverse, instead of using proper pots and wiring.
Being a left handed guitar player you whould not believe how many guitar techs do not understand this, A right handed pot wired in reverse makes it impossible to do volume swells and the pots basically becomes an on off switch. I own 7 left handed guitars from epiphone to high end G&L and they all came with right handed pots i had to switch out.
Hi there! How are you? Once again, thank you very much for your insightful videos. I'm about to work on a left handed Epiphone Sheraton and the info has been very useful! Best regards!
I have humbuckers, there is no ground. I shielded the inside of the cavity but didn't know about the grounding stuff yet. Should i solder a ground wire to the base plate?
@CKS5000 At least the shielding should be grounded. If the base plate touches the shielding (with metal springs for instance) it will be grounded already. Also the other way around: if the base plate is grounded and touches the shielding, the shielding will be grounded too. If there is a pick guard that is shielded on the inside and all metal parts touch the shielding you only have to ground one of the metal parts; the rest will be ground through the shielding.
Nice vid, just one question: If I buy a "normal" single coil with different magnet heights, can I just turn it upside down to put it in a left handed guitar.
thank you for your video. I need to know how to solder in a left handed pots. what wiring I will follow? if I take a right handed wiring how I translate this wiring in a left handed wiring?
Think like this : Where you see the lug 1 of a pot think lug 3 and were you see lug 3 of a pot think lug 1. The lug 2 stay as the same. Use all linear pots instead of logarithmic ou even better use reversed logarithmic pot for volume.
This is such a load of bollocks! Left handed people turn up volume the same way as anyone else. There's no such thing as left handed car radios, stereos, amplifiers, etc. So why would a left handed player need or want a "left handed" volume control? Also, there's no such thing as a "left handed logarithmic" pot - even big guitar manufacturers wire standard pots "left handed" which makes them useless because the volume goes from zero to full in the first 16th of a turn.
You probably aren't left handed as i'm, and yes there is reversed logarithmic pots. A lot of guitar pedals use them like the MXR DIST PLUS. Stop saying bullshit....
I've dealt with righty controls all my life, and they're familiar and convenient. In the last ten years, I've bought two lefty instruments with lefty pots. I've gotten used to the backward controls, but I still think they're unnecessary. In fact, a combination strum/volume swell is easiest to play on a lefty axe with righty pots.
@@tomsimms674 my Les paul is wired lefty. It drives me out of my mind. @ strats and a Tele, all right handed pots and the vol swells just fine. The tone knobs seem to be on or off on the strats though. Crazy!!
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This video now must be sent to guitar factories so they think about it a little more.
So often hi ends guitars too have installed right handed pots wired reverse, instead of using proper pots and wiring.
Being a left handed guitar player you whould not believe how many guitar techs do not understand this, A right handed pot wired in reverse makes it impossible to do volume swells and the pots basically becomes an on off switch. I own 7 left handed guitars from epiphone to high end G&L and they all came with right handed pots i had to switch out.
Hi there! How are you? Once again, thank you very much for your insightful videos. I'm about to work on a left handed Epiphone Sheraton and the info has been very useful! Best regards!
I have humbuckers, there is no ground. I shielded the inside of the cavity but didn't know about the grounding stuff yet. Should i solder a ground wire to the base plate?
@CKS5000
At least the shielding should be grounded. If the base plate touches the shielding (with metal springs for instance) it will be grounded already. Also the other way around: if the base plate is grounded and touches the shielding, the shielding will be grounded too.
If there is a pick guard that is shielded on the inside and all metal parts touch the shielding you only have to ground one of the metal parts; the rest will be ground through the shielding.
Thanx aaronstonebeat!!!!
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Nice vid, just one question: If I buy a "normal" single coil with different magnet heights, can I just turn it upside down to put it in a left handed guitar.
I dont think so, the heights of the pole pieces wouldn't correspond to the right strings anymore.
But I've never tried it :-)
thank you for your video.
I need to know how to solder in a left handed pots. what wiring I will follow?
if I take a right handed wiring how I translate this wiring in a left handed wiring?
Think like this : Where you see the lug 1 of a pot think lug 3 and were you see lug 3 of a pot think lug 1. The lug 2 stay as the same. Use all linear pots instead of logarithmic ou even better use reversed logarithmic pot for volume.
This is such a load of bollocks! Left handed people turn up volume the same way as anyone else. There's no such thing as left handed car radios, stereos, amplifiers, etc. So why would a left handed player need or want a "left handed" volume control? Also, there's no such thing as a "left handed logarithmic" pot - even big guitar manufacturers wire standard pots "left handed" which makes them useless because the volume goes from zero to full in the first 16th of a turn.
You probably aren't left handed as i'm, and yes there is reversed logarithmic pots. A lot of guitar pedals use them like the MXR DIST PLUS. Stop saying bullshit....
I've dealt with righty controls all my life, and they're familiar and convenient. In the last ten years, I've bought two lefty instruments with lefty pots. I've gotten used to the backward controls, but I still think they're unnecessary. In fact, a combination strum/volume swell is easiest to play on a lefty axe with righty pots.
@@tomsimms674 my Les paul is wired lefty. It drives me out of my mind. @ strats and a Tele, all right handed pots and the vol swells just fine. The tone knobs seem to be on or off on the strats though. Crazy!!
Your random babbling is the epitome of ingorance.