can you test pots and pickups ....

axisus

can you test pots and pickups whilst they are out of a guitar? using a meter.

I have some old stuff

ICBM

Yes.

You will need a meter that reads resistance in the 20K range for pickups (typically 5K-16K) and the 2M range for pots (typically 250K or 500K).

axisus

ICBM said:

Yes.

You will need a meter that reads resistance in the 20K range for pickups (typically 5K-16K) and the 2M range for pots (typically 250K or 500K).

Ta. I'll give it a whirl when I get home tonight.

Funkfingers

One word of caution. Pickups have occasionally been known to give no reading but still work perfectly. The bridge/Treble pickup of Roy Bunchanan's 1953 Telecaster, Nancy, springs to mind.

https://www.tdpri.com/threads/roy-buchanans-53-nancy-tele-final-secret-revealed-itself.258726/page-2

ICBM

Funkfingers said:

One word of caution. Pickups have occasionally been known to give no reading but still work perfectly. The bridge/Treble pickup of Roy Bunchanan's 1953 Telecaster, Nancy, springs to mind.

No, that's a perfect example of a broken pickup. Horribly thin, shrill, grating, ice-picky and unmusical-sounding... that's what it sounds like when you have a pickup with a coil break at the ground end.

And that's before you get on to his playing .