I got a 90s Lyon by Washburn guitar off of a guy via craigslist, paid 40 bucks, because the guy had replaced the selector switch and never got around to resoldering them.

I looked up a strat wiring diagram and redid the wiring. [Oddly enough the pickups had a red AND a white wire in addition to ground sheathing.]

Anyway, I rewired it.

The guitar plays nicely now.

The only thing is that the tone potentiometers don't do diddly-squat. At all, as far as I can tell. What's up with that, and what pots or what modifications should I make so that I can actually put the pots to use?

Did you check all the wiring?

I did. It was a mess when I got it, so I ended up redoing the majority of the wiring. I wired it exactly like the stratocaster diagram I looked up.

The only thing that confused me was that the pickup cables contained THREE conductors [ red, white, groundsheath].

I don't think that's the problem though, since the pickups work and everything.

okay, after a little googling I'm pretty sure the red wire is a tap on the coils....

meaning that i wired the goddamn thing wrong

I assumed red was hot or something, i don't know

what the hell am I supposed to do with coil taps?