Are basses wired the same way as guitars?

[morglan]

Hi all,

I've always rewired my guitars, and now my brother wants me to rewire a couple of his basses.

They are both Epiphones (a Thunderbird and a Les Paul Special bass).  He wants me to convert them to master volume and tone, with the third pot unused.

My question is, can I simply follow a guitar wiring diagram for this set-up?

Should I replace the stock pots (and will it make a difference if I do?)

He doesn't want a blend pot installed, but is it desirable in basses to install a "blow switch" (to bypass the tone control and go straight to the jack)?  All of my experience is with guitars, so I don't even know what bass mods would be desirable...

Thanks!

[slinkp]

He wants both pups all the time, no choices?  Yeah that should work exactly like a guitar.

[morglan]

Just spoke with him, and I'm going to install a 3 way switch in place if the unused pot, and replace the other 2 pots with better quality 500k parts.

[clankenstein]

Sounds good.is he happy with the pickups?

[Alanko]

Sounds basically like a Telecaster. I'm currently re-wiring a Frankenstein P bass with a neck humbucker and a 3-way switch. The switch itself is of a Gibson style, so as long as you can decode each component then there is no difference between bass and guitar wiring.