capacitor upgrade?

latestarter said:

Just thought I'd point out that unless you use your tone control often, your caps won't change a thing. With "Tone" on 100%, whatever you have between the tone in (whoops - out) and earth, is irrelevant.

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Is this true for vintage wiring also, or just modern wiring ?

au_rick said:

Is this true for vintage wiring also, or just modern wiring ?

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True with both wiring methods.

DISCLAIMER: This assumes you're using a 500kΩ tone pot, to complement your 500kΩ volume pot. I wouldn't have thought it common, but one forum member noted having a 100kΩ tone pot; so that's similar to having the 500kΩ pot turned down a few notches. But if you have the typical volume & tone pots, but never turn the tone pot down below "10" then the cap is meaningless because you're getting the signal about as bright as the pickup/volume pot can manage.