Help with electric guitar pots problems?

From: mark (marcoraicevic_at_videotron.ca)
Date: 11/19/04 

Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 17:23:00 -0500

The guitar has two volumes, two tone dials and one three-way toggle switch.
The toggle switch and dials look like the ones on this guitar:
http://www.albinhagstrom.se/hagstrom_h_ii_n.htm

The volume on my guitar cuts off after I go below 5 on the bottom volume
dial.

When I turn both volume dials on maximum: both pickups play when the toggle
is either in the middle or pushed up position; when the toggle is pushed
down only one of the pickups works.

When I turn off the bottom volume dial neither pickup works regardless of
the toggle position.

When I have the bottom volume dial on max and the top volume dial off: it
only plays one of the pickups and only when I push the toggle switch down ;
when the
toggle is in the middle or top position there's no sound.

I was told from the guy I bought the guitar from that the problem was with
the 500k pots; he recommended that I replace them with 250k pots.

Anyone have any suggestions and advice on how to fix the problem?

I took the pickguard off and made a diagram of the wiring:
Here's a scan of the diagram:
http://hagstrom.4t.com/cgi-bin/login
I hope you can make sense of the diagram.

Thanks,
Mark

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