Pickup LesLee Les Paul 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 and unscrew the two nuts
that hold the pots and remove the washers.
3. Now carefully flip the guitar on its face and set it into
your cushioning.
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 and the wires from both
middle lugs of the volume pots.
7. At the volume pot casings unsolder the ground wires
that come from the tone pot casings.
8. Lift the two tone pots with the wires and capacitors still
connect to them out of their holes und put that little
assembly to the side.
9. Unscrew the jack plate from the rim of the guitar and
use the birch-ply 1/2” wrench to unmount the output
jack from its plate.
10. Unsolder the output jack from the wire and shield.
11. Store the removed wiring components and the jack to
preserve the option of reverting your guitar to its
original state.
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®, 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 two
the new pots for master tone and LesLee speed will be installed.
Now please study the step-by-step guide in this manual before you proceed with the installation. And if you have
zero experience with guitar electrics and using a soldering iron, please find a local guitar service point or a
friend with experience who can do the installation for you.
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installation manual • Les Paul®
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
neck
volume
bridge
tone
neck
tone
bridge
vol.
neck
volume
bridge
vol.
bridge
tone output jack
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tone
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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 • Les Paul®
1. Start with threading the output jack into its channel
and set the two pots of the LesLee unit into their holes
with the motherboard facing upward and towards the
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hooked up. Mount the jack onto the jack plate and
screw the plate back onto the body.
2. Flip the guitar upwards on its side and make sure to have
the two pots positioned as shown in the illustration. Now
mount the pots to the body with their washers and nuts,
then lay it back down on its face.
3. Next we solder the shield of the original output cable
(toggle out) to the casing of the new master tone pot
and the hot wire to the upper lug of the tone pot. At
the casing you already see the shield of the new output
cable, so just add the shield to the same solder spot.
Also try to zig-zag the excess length of the toggle-out
wire across the cavity as shown in the drawing.
4. The unit comes with two double-pole shielded cables. One
is gonna be connected to the neck volume pot and one
to the bridge volume pot. The cables are marked with
little stickers “N” for neck and “B” for bridge.
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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 picture 5)
6. Repeat the same procedure with the cable marked
“B” at the bridge volume pot.
7. On the motherboard switch the tiny maintenance switch
to ON. To do so flip the board upward a bit towards the
centre of the guitar body and use a pin or ball pen to
move the slider on the switch to ON. (see picture 7)
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and screw the cover back on.
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to the user manual to start using Pickup 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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volume
bridge
vol
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to toggle
to toggle
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volume
bridge
vol
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to toggle
to toggle
toggle out
toggle out
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7.
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
from PU
from LesLee
shrink hose
to toggle
N
B
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B