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That would make it darker but it's a different type of tone altogether - i'm trying to make the tone from my bridge pickup less trebly, but thanks for the suggestion.

Just a question, will putting a 500 or 250K volume pot in my JM lower the overall output volume?

It should not affect the output, but you will probably loose some treble. I have a Jagmaster with hot Jazzmaster pickups (neck 8400 and 9400 bridge) and I have 500K pots and it's plenty loud.

Thanks. I want to reduce treble but not output volume so it seems like putting in 500K pots will do the trick.

Reducing treble will certainly reduce perceived volume, but nothing so major that couldn't be sorted with adjusting the pickup height.

Wouldn't wiring in a cap to cover the distance between a 1meg pot and a 250k (or 500k or 300k) pot do the same thing as swapping out the pots themselves? It'd certainly be easier.

I don't mean a new cap for the tone pot, I mean one permanently to ground from the regular (no-rhythm) circuit.

Thanks for the suggestion but I know nothing of electronics so have no idea how to do what you suggested. I can however change a pot as it is just a matter of soldering the wires from one pot to the same place on the other pot - even I can do that.

Yeah, just swap the 1meg for the 250k, lug for lug, and where the cap goes etc. If you photograph it first you'll have a guide to go by.