Kieran’s guitar

Kieran has new pickups for his guitar so the plan is replacement of his current pickups which he feels are a bit lacking The pickups in the guitar now are lacking in tone and prone to squealing when plugged into his amp and with the gain cranked up. (take a look at his guitar case for a clue as to why high levels of volume and gain are the preferred playing style)

Kieran's guitarThe new pickups

Step 1. Mark the new pickups so that they can't be mixed up with the old pickups wnen the old pickups are out of the guitar.

The case

2.unscrew the pickups from the front

3.Remove the covers from the back

4.The innards

5.This is where the bridge pickup is wired to its volume control6.Use a soldering iron to remove the old wires then install and solder in the new pickup wires.

7.How safe is this? Soldering iron plugged into extension cord into splitter into splitter into splitter into another splitter into an extension cord into the wall outlet.When buying an old house always check how many electric outlets there are in each room.

The pickups are attached to the guitar using this fiddly awkward bracket which is also the pickup height adjustment.

Screw her together, retune the strings and plug'er in.

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~ by jdguitar on June 7, 2006.