Amen to that. Don't waste $ on fancy caps for this purpose. If the cap is within ~10% of the stated value, it won't be noticeable. It might be worth measuring them, but even the ceramic Radioshack caps I've tested were so close as not to be a concern.

Add: another thing you can do with the combined pos knob is to use it as a BL "Hendrix" style blend. What you'd do is configure the rotary so when in either combined pos, the pot is in series with one of the PUP's. I think with the blend pot at 0, only one PUP is on. You mix in the other PUP up to 10. You can get some groovy tones from the impedance change of the blended PUP. From what I see using the "Guitarfreak" DB calc, a 1nF cap in line with the blend knob would produce that sweet ~1.6kHz peak that varies in level with the knob. It also shows a second peak that varies in frequency depending on the total C load on the circuit: a 200pF cable showed the peak at ~8kHz, while a 400pF cable showed a ~6kHz peak. Both those peaks are above where most guitar speakers start to roll off, but you should get some nice sparkle with the 6Khz. It might also be nice without the 1nF cap in series with the blend. Who knows? You could even wire the blend circuit in and out it of phase for pos 2 and 3 including the 1nF cap for a sort of variable HOoP tone option. I'm pretty sure you could do all that with the rotary switch (including wiring a ~200pF cap in series with whole guitar circuit for the 6kHz peak with a 200pF cable), but it would take some figuring. My guess would be to use the neck as the blend PUP, so the highs would come from the neck PUP, and the bass from the bridge as recommended in the BL HOoP wiring. Let me be clear that I have no idea how the results would actually pan out, but it would be easy enough to try it, then change it if it doesn't work for you.

Edited 1 time by gckelloch Nov 29 13 5:27 PM.