Monday, January 14, 2008

GUITAR ELECTRICS - WANT TO SEE HOW EASY IT IS TO CHANGE YOUR PICKUPS???

Its easy to change your own pickups you don't need to know what everything does or how it works its a simple quick job that anyone who can solder and replace wires like for like can do.

All you have to do is work methodically, there are usually two wires on pickups one is your hot the other is your ground so the the ground go's to the ground point ( back of the pot's ) on your guitar, the hot goes to whichever tab on the pot that you removed the wire from.

If you have four conductor wiring on your pickups then consult the wiring diagram that came with them, find out which wire is which the two extra wires will be for coil tapping, if you are not useing the coil taps then tape the ends and leave the wires in the cavity and wire them up same as before. If you are using them you will need a wiring diagram for coil tapping, phase switching etc and should follow that but lets just stick to a straight swap for now.

Here's a video showing just how simple it is.

1 comment:

Guitar Hunter said...

Great post, very helpful for the beginner or the advanced. I think your keyword is methodical.