long shaft. 500K. go for alpha or cts pots and you'll have to enlarge the shaft holes on the guitar a bit.
I just put masking tape over the holes and drill them out, but I've done it a zillion times, too.
Caps on a guitar really don't matter that much. In fact, there's more than one expert who just goes to radio shack and gets their greenies.
I always use sprague orange drops most of the time. Much less money than vitamin Q and I really have to say in a low voltage application
the extra money seems a waste to me. 4.00 compared to 12.00 and up...
cap values vary with user taste. so .022 to .047 is the typical range.
tone pros comes in metric so you can get the bridge and saddle to fit your epi without any bushing swap.
I don't know what tuners you mean.. the Grovers are what I usually put on, they have choice of keystone style or metal buttons.
And I think they're perfect, used them myself.
You can get a tusq, man made bone-sounds great, to fit the epi, too.
it's pre slotted. The most you'd have to do is sand the bottom a bit to get the height correct.
They make them a bit tall, which is a good thing, all guitars not being perfect to start with. And it's easy.
So you'd want 4 500K audio taper pots..
you'll have to decide to go metric which is stock, or upgrade to usa size.
you need two caps, and if it were me, I'd consider this:
radio shack greenies in three values.. .022 .033 and .047
I'd try each cap on each tone control, and see which I liked best and in combination.
Then I'd probably go buy the sprague orange drops in the value I liked and put them in.
However, as I said, some say why bother spending more if you can't hear the difference.
you don't need over 200volts for guitar caps, by the way.. 50V will do, so .. dont spend extra and get huge caps for it.
You'll want sheilded wire for all the hot wires.
consider treble bleed caps, while you're in there.
these allow you to turn the volume down without decreasing treble, which is what happens without them.
with trebel bleed caps installed, your volume is just a volume, and your tone control handles the tonal changes.
And, again, people prefer different values for those caps. because different values choose which frequencys to bleed through.
and you needn't spend much, ceramic caps will do just fine. Not good enough for the tone caps, but fine for the treble bleed.
so again.. for the cost. go to rat shack and try different values.
If I were you I'd google treble bleed caps and see what others say, then try, say, three values.
you'll need two.
and, again, which value for which pickup could be a preference consideration, don't be afraid to mix and match.
Remember also that your knobs are metric, if they are stock. So if you swap to usa pots, you'll need to swap to usa knobs.
Grovers will go right into an epi les paul goldtop with no changes. so choose between standard rotomatics, and locking tuners.
They have a new model now, which is built like a sperzel, and has the knob on the back.
It lists for 90.00 a set.
The older style, which I use, are like 75.00 a set, list.
the regular tuners, which would be fine, after all you don't have a whammy, are a little less than that.
the tone pros is the 2 11/16 spacing . unless I'm getting senile!.. and runs about 65.00 in chrome.
the metric tail is 35.00 list.
also if I remember correctly, the tusq nut for gibson fits the epi and is 11.00 list.
you can find this stuff at allparts.com and ebay and stewart macdonald and all over the net, really.
best way is to mount everything but the pups on a cardboard and then solder it up, first.
except the switch, too.. you gotta solder it and the pups in last.
check your tuners on the back and see if the screw that goes in there is angled off to the side, or straight down.. you may even have kluson style tuners, I don't know every epi model.. but avoid having to drill a new hole.
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