Jazzmaster and Fender are registered trademarks of FMIC, with which Seymour Duncan is not affiliated.
Confused? Watch the free installation videos on the Seymour Duncan
website (under “Support”). You’ll see how Seymour himself does it
and you’ll learn lots of great tech tips.
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Wiring Diagram for
Pickup Models:
Congratulations on your purchase of a fine, hand-built, Seymour Duncan electric guitar pickup! Installing
this pickup in your guitar isn’t rocket science. And, if you’re already handy with tools, it’ll be a snap for
you–and fun too! But if you have no experience handling red-hot soldering irons, you’d be well advised
to take your new pickup and your trusty guitar to a qualified guitar tech.
SJM-1
Vintage for Jazzmaster
®
SJM-2
Hot for Jazzmaster
®
SJM-3
Quarter Pound
TM
for Jazzmaster
®
The basic steps for installation include:
1. Remove the strings from your guitar.
2. Unscrew and remove the pickguard and turn it over, taking care not to scratch
your guitar’s finish.
3. De-solder the original pickup’s wires and make sure to remember where they
were connected.
4. Remove the original pickup from the pickup cavity.
5. If your original pickup had foam or springs attached to the bottom, pull them off and
re-use them with your Seymour Duncan pickup.
6. Put the Seymour Duncan pickup into the pickup cavity.
7. Tin the wires from the Seymour Duncan pickup, and then solder them into place where
the original pickup’s wires were connected.
8. Put the pickguard back in place, taking care to tuck in loose wires.
9. Re-string your guitar and adjust the pickup height so that your new pickup balances
with the other pickup in the guitar. The bridge pickup should be between 1/8” and
1/16” from the strings when they are pressed down at the highest fret on the neck.
Then adjust the height of the neck pickup to balance well with the bridge pickup.
If two pickups sound thin and wimpy when
used together, chances are, they’re out of
phase with each other. If you’re combining
your Seymour Duncan pickup(s) with Fender
®
pickup(s) in the same guitar, you’ll need to
reverse the black and white wires on the
Seymour Duncan.
