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14. Install the new pickups in the correct mount-
ing rings (if applicable).
15. Thread the pickups’ lead wires into your guitar.
• Always start with the neck pickup.
• Twist the pickup’s wires together. This will
help the wires from getting stuck as you
thread them through.
• Pull the lead wires all the way through
until the pickups are sitting flush on the
guitar’s surface.
16. Once threaded through the cavity, you can
label the pickup hookup wires neck and bridge
with painters tape.
17. Screw pickups to the body.
• For direct mount you may have to use the
screws that came with your guitar. Keep
in mind the screws may be larger than the
baseplate mounting hole.
18. Trim lead wire (optional).
• Leave one or two inches of slack and trim
the lead wire to length.
• Trimming excess wire is not required. But
loose lead wire (especially 1c) can lead to
shorting.
19. Make your pickup solder connections in one of
two ways.
Option 1
: Hot leads to switch (v1 Volume, 1 Tone,
3-way switch)
• Solder neck hot lead (white) to neck termi-
nal of the switch.
• Solder bridge hot lead (white) to bridge
terminal of the switch.
• Connect the hot lead from the 3-way
switch terminal to lug 3 of the volume pot
(you can use the previous wire).
• Connect both pickup ground wires to the
outer casing of either volume potentiom-
eter.
• Solder ground wires to switch casing (Only
If the switch casing is grounded).
Option 2
: Hot leads to the pots (2 Volume Pots, 2
Tone Pots, 3-way switch).
• Connect the neck hot lead (white) to lug 3
of the neck volume pot.
• Connect bridge hot lead (white) to lug 3 of
the bridge volume pot.
• Connect lug 2 (middle lug) of the neck vol-
ume pot to the 3-way switch.
• Connect lug 2 (middle lug) of the bridge
volume pot to the 3-way switch
20. Connect Battery Wires
• Solder all of the pickup and battery clip red
wires together.
• Protect the soldered ends of the red wires
with shrink tubing.
• Thread the battery clip’s black ground wire
to the output jack.
21. Connect electronics to the stereo output jack
• Solder the black battery ground wire to
the ring of the output jack.
• Solder the pots or switch ground wire to
the output jack sleeve.
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