Modifying a Fender Excelsior

January 24th, 2015 posted under Amps.

A musician brought in his Fender Excelsior, unhappy with the two-position tone control (who wouldn’t be unhappy about that?). We changes some components on the circuit board and replaced the switch with a potentiometer, and now the tone control works just like a vintage Fender Tweed Deluxe and goes from bright to dark and every setting in between.