What wire to connect tone to volume pot on a JM?

johnnyseven · Post by **johnnyseven** » Mon Nov 29, 2010 11:59 am

I need to replace the wire which connects the tone pot to the volume pot on my Jazzmaster as at the moment my tone pot isn't working. I went to Maplin (as I was in Wimbledon and there was one conviniently there) and the guy told me to buy what he called 'bell wire', is this likely to be suitable for the job?

zedoktor · Post by **zedoktor** » Mon Nov 29, 2010 2:26 pm

I looked it up and I imagine that it should work fine. I got kinda stuck wiring my guitar up so I ended up having to use some automotive wire (which is stranded) to extend some of the leads and my guitar still works but I don't know if there's any negative effects from this.

johnnyseven · Post by **johnnyseven** » Mon Nov 29, 2010 2:40 pm

At the moment the tone pot isn't working at all so even if it's the wrong kind of wire I can't make the situation any worse than it is at the moment.

Shaguar · Post by **Shaguar** » Mon Nov 29, 2010 2:50 pm

Looks to me like Bell wire is what we call speaker wire.

What you need is 22 or 24 AWG multi stranded wire. That's the ideal wire. You can use any type of multi strand wire really, but I've never soldered "bell wire" before so I dont know how it or it's inulation will behave.

Earth · Post by **Earth** » Mon Nov 29, 2010 8:46 pm

Any wire will suffice for this tiny connection.

johnnyseven · Post by **johnnyseven** » Mon Nov 29, 2010 8:54 pm

Thanks for the help chaps. On further inspection the existing wire was fine, it just wasn't soldered very well/had come loose. A re-solder sorted it out and it now seems to be working fine.