Redtail Guitar Accessories.com “Greasy” tone explained.

The Fender Grease bucket tone components were first offered up around 2004. At that time no one gave a rip about the tone circuit because it sounded like marketing hype and was different.

Now after 6 years guitarist seeking better tone options and D-I-Y-ERS are re-looking into this circuit with interest.

Everyone knows a passive tone circuit can only roll off high frequencies. When this works right we hear more bass  , but bass hasn’t been added its just more prominent. This passive roll off depends mostly on what value tone caps are used. A range example would be from .01 to .1m. Our standard  strat circuit is a high pass filter that’s all. The grease circuit is a combo of a high and a low pass filter. This cuts high frequencies without added bass which may cause muddiness. One of the main keys is that the pickup is being used as a inductor and the other key is the little resistor.  A   4.7k  resistor  prevents the pot value from reaching zero,  slightly altering the curve, but retaining your  benchmark tone and high end as you adjust the pots . In every diagram I’ve looked at, the 4.7k resistor is wired in series with the 0.022 cap from lug #3 of the tone pot to ground on the can of the tone pot, it’s no secret.  That resistor is where the magic is for sure. Of course many other factors play in like , do you have 250k CTS or Alpha pots or 500k or 300k tone pots? Are you using stock .02 caps or 0.033 or 0.047 paper in oil capacitors. All things work together, but we have to modify-- right?

NOTE: Fender has a great archive of guitar diagrams, it’s worth checking out.

My version includes a carbon comp 4.7k resistor and vintage new old stock ceramic  .1m &.022 capacitors I stock many types of vintage caps. Ceramic, Orange Drop caps, paper in oil, wire kits. Guitar and bass hardware and plastic replacement guitar and bass parts. I have an Ebay store for the smaller items and a new web store for bodies, necks pickups and hand selected capacitors too.

Whats the story on Vintage Russian PETP tone capacitors

Polyethylene Terephthalate, PETP, is a Russian military spec-polyester variant.. -- it's what you get when you mix ethylene glycol with Terephthalic acid or dim ethyl Terepthalate. The k-73 is very transparent. caps lean slightly toward the brighter end of the frequency range, so they do clean up some mud. They offer 600 vdc and 5% tolerance,  perfect for guitar as well as tube pre-amps or pro audio projects. Tight Tolerances are hermetically sealed .Glass bodies within a strong metal cases and long leads . Russian military capacitors are a superb tone upgrade for your electric guitar, Tube amp, Wah pedal or stomp-box. K73s,vintage PETP Poly Film caps. Perfect small size for guitar cavities (approx. 23/32" long and 9/32" wide) and a great sounding alternative to higher priced Paper In Oil (PIO) caps. Check out these caps and more cool stuff in my online store and my Ebay store. Did you know these are all the same values?  Note: 22000pF = 22nF = .022uF.

Redtail Guitars parts and accessories-Kalamazoo Four on Ebay

    This week in my Ebay store I have a great sounding Kalamazoo Four solid state guitar amp.from the 70's it is clean with a very musical tremolo.Check it here: 120754093444

Canada mail strike is over

Fyi ,yes it is over and all Redtail Guitar Accessory orders have been shipped. Here is an interesting piece--check it out.

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By Nicole Mordant | Reuters – Thu, 16 Jun, 2011

VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Air Canada Inc and striking customer service workers reached a tentative contract agreement on Thursday, settling on a compromise on the biggest obstacle to a deal: the issue of pension benefits and who should pay for them.
Air Canada's almost 4,000 unionized airport check-in and call-center staff will return to work on Friday after going on strike early on Tuesday.
With the threat of government back-to-work legislation hanging over them, Air Canada, the country's biggest airline, and the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) union agreed to put the issue of whether new hires should have a defined-benefit pension plan to binding arbitration.
Defined benefit plans are typically paid for by companies and are becoming rarer as employers struggle to fund yawning pension shortfalls and look to switch employees to self-funded defined contribution plans.
Air Canada, which has a market value of C$560 million ($572 million) and a pension deficit of about C$2.1 billion, was pushed to the edge of bankruptcy two years ago by heavy pension funding demands.
Under the tentative contract deal, existing employees' defined benefit plans will see only "very slight modifications", starting in 2013, and they will not suffer the large reductions that the airline wanted, CAW President Ken Lewenza told a news conference.
"The defined benefit plans that we have bargained collectively for the past 40 years ... are completely intact," Lewenza said.
He said he regretted not being to get the same guarantee in with the airline for new hires, but added that it was in the best interest of union members not to prolong the strike.
He declined to detail the wage increases agreed to in the four-year contract, but called them "very good". Other media reported the increases at 9 percent over four years.
"The agreement will help ensure the long-term sustainability of Air Canada while maintaining industry-leading compensation and benefits for our employees," said Duncan Dee, Air Canada's executive vice-president and chief operating officer.
Air Canada's stock soared nearly 9 percent to as high as C$2.19 after news of the tentative deal, later closing at C$2.17 for a gain of 16 Canadian cents.
A two-week union ratification vote starts on Monday.
Lewenza said it was not the government's threat of back-to-work legislation, a move he described as an assault on workers, that speeded up an agreement.
The House of Commons formally introduced legislation on Thursday to end the strike and also debated a motion to speed it through.
Air Canada had deployed 1,700 of its managers at airports across Canada to take the reins at check-in and ticketing desks, and diverted customer calls to centers in the United States. Disruptions appeared to be minor and mostly confined to flight delays.
The Montreal-based company is also in contract talks with four other unions, including its pilots, flight attendants and maintenance workers, after agreements expired earlier this year.
Ottawa's move to legislate striking employees back to work signals that no other Air Canada union "will be able to strike for any length without triggering a similar move by the government", National Bank Financial analyst Cameron Doerksen said in a note to clients.
(Additional reporting by Randall Palmer and Louise Egan in Ottawa and Allison Martell in Toronto; editing by Peter Galloway and Rob Wilson)

Redtail Guitars parts and accessories shot gun shell guitar knobs

Hey all---have you seen these? New this summer are these  shell knobs.Yes,we stock them in Gold or Chrome..Just head to my Ebay store. they are made to fit USA,CTS pots, they go quick. Check them out.