Replacing the Pickups in Your Guitar

Step 11 Wiring Part Three(Soldering)

This part is pretty much unique to the pickup and guitar.
Just solder the wires where they need to go. Make sure the connection is good by tugging on the wires. If you can't solder, there's a million instructables on doing it.
DRAW! Draw a picture of your wires and where they need to go. It really helps to get it straight in your head.

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For my pickup, I had five wires:
Bare: Gets soldered onto the back of the volume pickup with the green wire. My guitar originally had the yellow wire on the tone pot, so that's where I put it.
Green: See above, it also went to the tone pot.
White: Gets wired and soldered to the red wire.
Red: Wired and soldered to the white wire.
Black: Goes to the pickup selector switch. My pickup selector didn't look like the one in the directions, and I wasn't sure what tabs on the switch went to what, so I just put it where the original black pickup wire was.

Make sure you tape up the red and white wires. Heatshrink if you have it. Impress the next guy to open your guitar.

Don't let the heat sit too long on the pots. It can't be good for them.

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Now that everything is soldered securely, it's time to test it.