Pickup LesLee Gibson SG User manual

1. Lay your guitar on a table with the neck pointing to
your left. Support the body and neck preventing the
headstock from touching the table. You can use folded
blankets or towels or a few cushions to do so.
2. Remove both tone knobs, unscrew the nuts at the pots
and at the output jack and remove the washers. You
can use the birch ply 1/2” wrench.
3. Flip the guitar and lay it into the cushioning with the
back facing upward.
4. Unscrew and remove the cover of the control cavity.
5. Make a few photographs of your wiring to document
the original state of your guitar.
6. Unsolder the tone capacitors from both volume pots.
7. At the bridge volume pot casing unsolder the shield
of the toggle output wire. Now unsolder the hot output
wire at the toggle switch (mid lug).
8. Lift the two tone pots with the capacitors and output
jack out of their holes and store the removed wiring
components to preserve the option of reverting your
guitar to its original state.
9. Unsolder the wires from both middle lugs of the vol-
ume pots. (output wires of the volume pots going to
the toggle switch)
This first page shows how to separate parts of the old wiring from the guitar in such a way that preserves the option
to revert your guitar back to its original state - in case you want to sell it or want to use the LesLee unit in another
Les Paul®, SG® Telecaster Deluxe® or Telecaster Custom® type guitar. We will remove the output jack and the
two tone pots. This leaves you with the two volume pots and the the 3-way toggle switch installed only. On page
the new output jack and the new pots for master tone and LesLee® speed will be installed.
Please study the step-by-step guide in this manual before you proceed with the installation. And if you lack the
experience with guitar electrics and using a soldering iron, please find a local guitar service point or a skilled
friend who can do the installation for you.
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installation manual • Gibson SG®
To obtain the birch-ply wrench please unmount it from the unit
needed tools:
• cross head screw driver
• soldering iron, best with temperature control
• included birch-ply 1/2” wrench
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to toggle
output toggle
output toggle
bridge
tone
neck
tone
bridge
tone
neck
tone
6.
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7.
7.
6.
6. 7.
7.
9.
9.
to toggle
to toggle
Throughout the decades Gibson® has used several variations of the shown
wiring layout. The wires can have different colors, there can be additional
ground wires connecting the volume pots with the tone pots, the shield of the
toggle output wire might or might not be soldered to the pot casings, etc. But as
long as you follow the same logic with the signal flow, the unit will work just fine.
ground
ground
to toggle
ground
ground
bridge
volume
neck
volume
bridge
volume
neck
volume

Page two guides you through the steps of installing Pickup LesLee® into the stripped control cavity. The unit
comes with all components wired to simply be mounted. Those are the stereo output jack and the new master tone
pot and the speed pot. The wires for inputs and return signals of the pickups will need to be connected to the right
lugs and wires. Please follow the step-by-step guide on the right side of this page to proceed with the installation.
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installation manual • Gibson SG®
1. Start with setting the output jack & the two pots of the
LesLee unit into their holes with the motherboard facing
upward. Add the wahsers and nuts.
2. The unit comes with one single-core shielded cable (toggle
out) and two double-core shielded cables, each marked
with little stickers “N” for neck and “B” for bridge.
3. First solder the single-core toggle-out cable to to the mid
lug of the toggle switch, the shield is soldered to the
ground lug of the toggle switch.
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shield is soldered to the casing of the neck volume pot.
Then solder the red wire to the middle lug of the pot and
the white wire to the disconnected wire that goes to the
toggle switch. Use the small piece of white shrink hose that
comes with the unit (in the accessory bag) and shrink it
onto the soldered connection with a few strokes of the
side of your soldering iron. See 4.
.5. Repeat the same procedure with the cable marked
“B” at the bridge volume pot.
6. On the motherboard switch the tiny maintenance switch
to ON. To do so flip the board upward a bit and use a
pin or ball pen to move the slider on the switch to ON.
See picture 6.
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screw the cover back on.
8. Since the SG® unit uses the MEC potentiometers seen
the extra thin body of a SG®, you will need to find 
with set screws to fit these pots. Easiest is to get a set of
witch hat knobs with set screws.
Please proceed to the user manual to start using LesLee®.
©1995-2022 Pickup LesLee® Pascal Stoffels - All rights reserved. All guitar names, models and shapes are property of their respective owners and are for identification purposes only.
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6.
You find the maintenance switch near the bottom of the
motherboard to the left of the supercap. You can use
a pin or ballpen to switch it from OFF to ON.
Remember to always switch it OFF whenever you
work on the wiring in the future.
OFF ON
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4.
connect
*add shrink hose
LesLee® Neck (N) cable,
red to mid-lug, white to toggle wire,
ground (shield) to case
new toggle out
new toggle out
3.
to toggle
to toggle
to toggle
to toggle
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N
B
N
B
bridge
volume
neck
volume
bridge
volume
neck
volume
LesLee
ON/OFF
Speed
4.
5.
to toggle
neck
volume
N
master
tone
LesLee
ON/OFF
Speed
master
tone
On  the motherboard
will run along the shorter diagonal of the
cavity pointing at the neck volume pot. And
the former bridge tone will be speed On-Off
and the former neck tone is the master tone.