Never thought I'd have to ask for help regarding rewiring a guitar but I'm on the verge of a friggin breakdown!!! I've recently finished an AVRI Jazzmaster for Kylef on here and like the lovely fella I am, have been re-assembling it for him before returning it, but this fuuucccckkking wiring is driving me mad, firstly one of the roller pots was frigged so I bought a new pair and installed them, I stripped every piece of the utterly horrendous wiring that was inside and replaced it with beautiful 22awg cloth covered multi coloured single core wire....Now everything works perfectly but the volume and tone won't fully shut off!!!! I'm nigh on positive, and I've no idea why, that the pots aint the correct value for the guitar, there was so much solder splashed on them when i took it apart that you can't really see the numbers, but there's definitely a K on them, and when i try and move the solder about I'm sure I can see 250, now I'm no jazzmaster expert but shouldn't these be 1Meg pots? and that being the case would having 250k pots cause the problem of the volume not shutting off? I don't want to cost him any more money but it's pointless me sending back a guitar thats fucking useless..Apologies for the profanity, i refuse to delete it on the grounds of insanity. cheers for any insight lads
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Volume pots not shutting completely is probably a ground path issue. 1 Meg pots are customary on the Jazzmaster and Jaguar. The roller pots are 1 Meg (Vol) and 50k (Tone), respectively.
Does the AVRI have a metal screening plate under the pickguard?
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You will also need to run a ground wire to the roller pots as well, since there's currently no connection.
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You don’t need to connect the roller pots to each other because the metal frame will do that, but you do need to ground the whole assembly.
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