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The tone control seems to be doing something but not having a massive effect on the bass / treble
Teles mainly have a 0.047uF tone cap and if that’s what you are used to the installed 0.022 cap will seem to have less effect on treble roll-off, although probably not as much as you have described.
It’s hard to read the value of the tone pot so perhaps just check that it is 250k like the volume pot?
I will double check the pot and wiring, if all looks good will remove the cap/resistor and see if it makes a difference if not will try another capacitor .
It sounds great as it is but I like rolling off the treble in the bridge position for a bit more tonal variety.
First, remove the silver cap and resistor and see what it sounds like.
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The numbers printed on the silver capacitor could be a manufacturer's part number or they could be the cap value in picofarads. 19202pF = 0.019202uF.
I'm not certain that I could detect any significant difference between .019 and .022uF.
If so it's at least ten times larger than the largest useful value (which is 1nF, or .001uF).
The resistor is a 1Kohm (5%) - brown/black/red(/gold). This is at least 100 times smaller than the smallest normally useful value (usually 100K).
Despite this it shouldn't actually affect the tone control operation when the volume is up full - but the values are so wrong that there's no useful purpose in leaving them there, they will essentially bypass the volume control until it's turned almost all the way down. Just remove them first before you do anything else.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Swapped out the mojo cap for a small green one off a Squier (same rating) and the tone control came back to life again, so guessing it was the mojo capacitor.
Thanks for the help.
The Squier one will be some sort of modern cap, if it gives you the tone range you want then leave it in.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein