15 - Seymour Duncan Hot Rails STHR 1n PDF
15 - Seymour Duncan Hot Rails STHR 1n PDF
Installing
this pickup in your guitar isn’t rocket science. And, if you’re already handy with tools, it’ll be a snap for
you–and fun too! But if you have no experience handling red-hot soldering irons, you’d be well advised
to take your new pickup and your trusty guitar to a qualified guitar tech.
Fig. 1
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Bridge Grounding
If you are replacing a standard Telecaster® lead pickup that has a metal bottom plate, the bridge & strings were (most likely) being
grounded via the bottom plate. The particular model of Seymour Duncan pickup that you are installing has no bottom plate, and so
you may need to connect a separate wire to ground your bridge.
To do this: take a piece of wire, and solder one end of it to the bottom of the volume pot. Run the other end of that wire into the lead
pickup cavity. Strip about one inch of insulation from the end of that wire. Place the exposed end of that wire on top of the guitar’s
body, and screw the bridge down on top of it. The metal bridge will contact the wire, and create a ground connection for the bridge
& strings.
Coil Splitting