Pickup LesLee Stratocaster User manual

1. Remove the strings from your guitar.
2. Lift off the two tone knobs from their pot shafts.
3. Unscrew the pickguard and lift it up to turn it over
like shown in the picture to the left.
4. Make a few photographs of your wiring to document
the original state of your guitar.
5. At the pickup-selector switch unsolder the two wires
coming from the tone pots.
6. At the volume pot unsolder the black and white wires
coming from the output jack. Note that the black wire
coming from the trem claw remains in place.
7. Unsolder all three pickup output wires at the selector
switch.
8. Unscrew the jack plate, lift it out and pull the wires
through the channel. Now unscrew the nut holding
the jack in place and unmount it from the plate.
9. Unscrew the mounting nuts at the two tone pots. The
volume pot stays in place.
10. Remove the two tone pots with their wires in one piece.
Note how the white wire connecting the volume pot
to the selector switch remains in place.
11. Store the removed wiring components to preserve the
option of reverting your guitar to its original state.
This first page shows how to separate the old wiring from the guitar in such a way that will allow you to revert the
guitar back to its original state - in case you want to sell it or want to use the LesLee unit in another Stratocaster.
We will remove the output jack and the two tone pots and leave the master volume pot in place. This leaves you
with a partially stripped pick guard with only the volume pot and the 5-way selector switch remaining in place.
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.
unmounted
original wiring
components
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10.
11.
note:
The wire colors shown here are the original
Fender® colors of the original vintage Strato-
caster®. You might have one of the many
reissue model/variants from Fender or Squier
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follow the step by step guide and just focus on
the correct lugs and solder points.
3.
to trem claw
partially stripped
pick guard
5.
5.
7.
6.
Also obtain the birch-ply wrench by unmounting it from the unit
needed tools:
• cross head screw driver
• soldering iron, best with temperature control
• 1/2” (or 13mm) socket hex drive
• small wire cutter
• round file
volume
tone
tone
to trem claw
output jack
pick guard with
original wiring
5.
7.
6.
volume
tone
tone
output
jack

to trem claw
bridge
mid
neck
bridge
middle
neck
color code for the signal wires 10.
1. If the bottom of your pickguard has no electrical shield
please apply the included copper sticker to provide the
needed ground connection between the three pots, or
upgrade your guitar with the small or full version Fender
Stratocaster® pickguard shield.
2. Unmount the unit from the birch-ply holder and bring it
into place on the pickguard. Thread the output wires
through the hole towards the jack mount cavity. Then
mount the two pots in place as shown in the illustration.
See the note on the shaft size of the MEC speed pot.
3. Next remove the pins of the brass connectors from the
yellow, white and purple input wires that come out of
the LesLee unit.
4. Solder these pins to the ends of the three white output
wires of the pickups.
You can use the tiny hole in the
birch-ply as holder.
5. Plug the pins into the brass connectors of the input wires.
The neck-PU wire into the white input wire, the mid-PU
wire into the purple input wire and the bridge-PU wire
into the yellow input wire.
6. Slide the pieces of shrink hose over the plugged brass
connectors and use your soldering iron to shrink them
tight by stroking along the hoses with the side of your
soldering iron.
7. Next solder the return wires to the selector switch. The
white return wire (neck-PU) goes where the neck-PU wire
originally was connected, the purple return wire to
where the middle PU wire was and the yellow return
wire to where the bridge-PU wire originally was.
8. Solder the brown wire to the middle lug (output) of the
volume pot.
9. Solder the blue wire to the left lug of the volume pot,
where the original white wire remains.
10. At the jack cavity solder the output wires to the included
stereo jack. Note that the lugs are marked with small
pieces of shrink hose corresponding with the wire colors,
red and white and black for the ground (shield).
11. Switch the tiny maintenance switch on the motherboard
to ON. (see picture)
12. Flip the pick guard over and carefully set it back in place.
Next screw the pickguard and the jack plate back onto
the body.
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proceed to the user manual to start using Pickup LesLee®.
Page two guides you through the steps of installing Pickup LesLee® onto your stripped pick guard. The unit
comes with two push-pull potentiometers that are completely wired to simply be mounted. Additionally the
wires for input and return signals need to be connected to the right places. Please follow the step-by-step guide
on the right side of this page to proceed with the installation.
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©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.
return wires
input wires
output wires
brown wire to midle lug of volume pot
blue wire to left lug of volume pot
LesLee unit as it
comes out of the box
bridge
mid
neck
11.
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
output jack with
color markers
7.
2.
brass connectors
input wires with
and shrink hose
bridge
mid mid
neck
bridge
neck
pins
The speed pot from MEC-Warwick has
a 10mm shaft which is a tiny bit more
than 3/8” (9,5mm). Please widen the
hole in your pickguard with a drill bit
or a round file.