Active/Passive Retro-Fit for Strat Style Guitars
• TONE LIFTER INSTALLATION
Fitting the Tone Lifter does not require any soldering skills, and the installation is reversible, in that it is often important
to be able to return an instrument to its exact stock configuration. This is especially important if a vintage instrument is
involved.
When setting out to install a Tone Lifter, make sure you have plenty of flat clear space on a table top or bench. Always
ensure that you have some soft material on that surface in order to protect the instrument, large fluffy towels are very
good for this.
Soft suede leather, such as a brand new chamois, is ideal as protection between the pickguard and the instrument body.
It is very soft, also very strong, and not easily pierced.
• REMOVAL OF THE LOWER TONE CONTROL
• Loosen and remove strings from their machine heads in order to gain free access to the pickguard.
• Remove all the screws from the pickguard and put them in a suitable container or other safe place.
• Lift off the pickguard and place upside down, making sure there is some soft but strong protection material between
the pickguard and the guitar.
• Remove or cut the small bare wire between middle tag of the lower tone and the middle tone pot.
• Disconnect or cut the white wire connected to the outer tag of the lower pot. Fold and put some heatshrink sleeving
over the bare wire end, heat to cause it to shrink, and tuck away by the side of the pickups lever switch, close to the
pickguard. This wire is being left in case it is required again in the future, if the guitar is returned to its stock set-up,
for example.
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