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Replacing the Pickups in Your Guitar

Step 6Unscrew Control Panel

Unscrew Control Panel
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This varies widely guitar to guitar, but on mine it comes off with two small screws on either end of the plate.
When you take it off, be gentle and don't force it. If it doesn't want to come off it might be because you're pulling on a wire.

Lay it right next to the cavity so that you can see the wires clearly.

Find the pickup wires. If you are working on a single coil one like this, you should have two wires per pickup. Somewhere in there you should also have a ground for the bridge plate. Mine was a separate black wire that came through the same hole that the pickup wires did.
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