intellivised Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 Hello! My name is Craig. I'm a brand new Epiphone owner as of yesterday and brand new to these forums as of right this second. I *just* got an Epiphone Wilshire re-issue (the arctic white/full sized humbuckers one that they are selling @ Guitar Center/on Musicians Friend). Anyways! Everything on the guitar has been great besides one thing... I was carefully pulling up the knobs to remove the plastic and one of the four pretty much shattered as soon as I touched it. I'm not in love with the knobs anyway and was wondering... What are the size of the pots? I really would like to replace all 4 with something a little nicer, but can't for the life of me find information regarding the size of the pots/what knobs to get. Any information on the size/where to get replacement knobs would be *GREATLY* appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostindesert Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 Remove the backplate to have a look. Small pots are metric/asian, big pots could be CTS, USA made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intellivised Posted January 24, 2009 Author Share Posted January 24, 2009 I'll do that right now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intellivised Posted January 24, 2009 Author Share Posted January 24, 2009 Actually there is no backplate... It seems like a LOT of work just to get the pickguard up. I'm going to hope for an on-line solution first - maybe someone else here will know. I could always take/upload a picture of the post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emetry Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 Pictures would be your best bet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duane v Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 Actually there is no backplate... It seems like a LOT of work just to get the pickguard up. I'm going to hope for an on-line solution first - maybe someone else here will know. I could always take/upload a picture of the post. privat message TWANG, he will know.... And dont pull the pick guard, that thing is flimsy and can crack if you're not careful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intellivised Posted January 24, 2009 Author Share Posted January 24, 2009 All I have is a camera phone... hopefully this *helps*. This forum, btw, is great - I'm really appreciative of the fast responses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intellivised Posted January 24, 2009 Author Share Posted January 24, 2009 Oh - and if this makes a difference I have a Kramer and pulled the metal knob right off and put it on the Epi no problems. And I was able to get the Kramer backplate off. All I found was that the pots say "ALPHA" on the back and that I was glad I took the backplate off... My switch was loose and I got that tightened up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intellivised Posted January 31, 2009 Author Share Posted January 31, 2009 Mystery solved: 500K pots and knobs set up for metric/coarse knobs. Thanks to Gibson's 1-800 # and the helpful folks there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWANG Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 oh.. a wilshire.. I just replied to your other thread about pots.. I thought you had a strat. http://www.allparts.com/store/electronics-500k-pots-ep-0186-000,Product.asp those are inexpensive and nice. will go right in. TWANG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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