The Vintage Upgrade Kits with Luxes® offers a warm tone with more upper midrange than the RS Vintage kit and the 0.015uf value capacitor in the neck position allows a very fine tone control and with the 0.022uf in the brighter bridge position you get a very versatine tone circuit.
What are Superpots:
RS Guitarworks 500K Superpots are never below 500K and are usually in the 520K to 560K range and have a taper which means that they retain more of the value as you roll down the volume which results in a gradual volume control that is effective all the way through the range, they have a heavy screen printed carbon track and are held together with a circlip at the top of the shaft and do not rely on the crimped metal cap resulting in greater consistency.
The effect of fitting and RS Guitarworks kit is often described as lifting a blanket off your amp with increased clarity, harmonic range and sustain.
This kit comes with LONG SHAFT pots, which is appropriate for the following guitars: All production Les Pauls® made since 1977. This does NOT include the Historic® series. If your guitar has a large Maple cap, then this kit is for you.
Please Note:
All guitars manufactured in Korea, Japan, China, Indonesia and Mexico use metric pots (6mm), and have metric sized holes drilled for the pots. All pots sold by RS Guitarworks use standard pots and hole diameters (3/8"). Therefore, holes in the guitar, plates and/or pickguards will need to be enlarged to 3/8" to fit properly. Also, metric knobs will not fit the RS pot shafts; most popular knobs are available on the store in new and aged versions. Please call us for details or questions about installation.
What's in the kit:
(2) 500K RS Long-Shaft SuperPots®- We designed these pots in conjunction with CTS. Used for the volume controls in the kit, these pots have a custom taper that gives you a noticeable difference between each number on your volume control. You can finally roll your volume down to 2 or 1 and not loose any clarity, even in the neck position!! Mil-spec construction and a smoother resistor path make this the best pot to ever be used in the guitar.
(2) 500K CTS Long-Shaft Audio taper pots. In these Pre-Wired Kits the Bridge and Neck Tone controls are matched to the Volume Controls to give and even wider response.
(2) Luxe® repro paper and oil Luxe Bumble Bee caps.
(1) Color wiring diagram.
How this kit improves your tone: All of the above components combine to create unprecedented clarity in your overall tone. This increase in clarity will also equate to an increase in note bloom, harmonic complexity, and, in some cases, sustain. Because this kit increases the usability and intuitiveness of the controls onboard your guitar, you will achieve tones that you didn't think were possible.
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