It seems to be my month for having trouble with my electric guitars!
My Epi ES-335 had developed an odd problem - the bridge pickup is a lot quieter than it used to be. Moving the volume knob a few times can get it to play at its normal volume for a few seconds before fading out.
All of the knobs seem to be engaged properly, turn fine, and the pickup selector moves smoothly and engages. I’ve tried different cable, amps etc.
Internet searches suggest everything from “time to clean the pots” to “failing magnet”.
Any suggestions for DIY things (short of soldering) I can check or attempt before I take it to the guitar tech who’s working on my Strat? (I decided to save my beginner soldering attempts for my beginner Amazon Squier ).
If you chose to clean use DeoxIt. I would not clean it with any sketchy solvent or regular electronic contact cleaner.
You could also use the oppurtunity to upgrade your pots to the hardy bomber type name brand like CTS, Demarzio or Barnes. Its too bad you have bought it so recently.
Depending on what you have in there you can even change the tone a little if you thought the neck or the bridge was too bright.
Ashu, At least if it is the pot then it’s a cheap fix. Buying good quality pots doesn’t cost much at all, so it’s worth replacing. However bear in mind that if you change one volume pot you will probably want to change the one for the other pickup too so you have the same taper on both. Well at least if it was me the OCD of just knowing the two volume pots are different would bother me enough to change both (or all ).
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