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- Page 1 Install Guide — 2018 LAMBERTONES +1 360 356 6240 Yakima, WA hello@lambertones.com www.lambertones.com...
- Page 2 WELCOME Thank you for purchasing LAMBERTONES, the best upgrade you can do to your electric guitar. Disclaimer: Do not attempt to install LAMBERTONES unless you are familliar with hand tools and soldering. LAMBERTONES is not reponsible for any damage or injury sustained during dissasembly, installation, or reassembly of LAMBERTONES or your guitar.
- Page 3 Step 1 Step 2 PLACE GUITAR ON A SOFT AND CLEAN SURFACE TO NOT SCRATCH THE FINISH REMOVE STRINGS Today we are replacing the stock bridge humbucker on a Godin electric guitar. Carefully remove your strings. You might as well replace your strings while you Every guitar is slightly different, so be mindful before taking your guitar apart are at it, but we just moved ours out of the way because we recently replaced so you know how to put it back together.
- Page 4 Step 4 Step 3 IDENTIFY SOLDER JOINTS TURN OVER PICKGUARD The humbuckers currently installed are a 2-wire setup, with one ground wire Flip the pickguard over onto a microfiber cloth to protect the finish of the and one signal wire. The ground wire is shown here soldered to the back of the guitar.
- Page 5 Step 6 Step 5 IDENTIFY SOLDER JOINTS HEAT SOLDER TO REMOVE WIRES Trace the signal wire from the humbucker you are replacing to the switch. In After soldering iron heats up, place clean solder tip on the solder joint. Once our case it’s this black wire here soldered to the very end of the switch.
- Page 6 Step 7 Cont.. Step 7 HEAT SOLDER TO REMOVE WIRES HEAT SOLDER TO REMOVE WIRES Here’s what it looks like after we removed the grounding cable from the back of Place soldering iron tip on the pool of solder holding the grounding cable until the pot.
- Page 7 VIEW WITH EMPTY HUMBUCKER ROUTING Remove humbucker mounting screws carefully so you don’t scratch the surface Here’s the empty humbucker routing once we removed the humbucker. We are of the pickguard. now ready to prep and install our new LAMBERTONES.
- Page 8 PREP PICKUPS FOR INSTALL Remove your new LAMBERTONES from the box and prepare for install. Take the hardware back out from your LAMBERTONES box and get ready to install the springs and screws to attach your new pickups to the pickguard.
- Page 9 Step 13 Step 12 PLACE PICKUPS ON TOP OF SCREWS AND SPRINGS INSTALL SCREWS AND SPRINGS Carefully place humbucker on top of springs and screws so you don’t scratch the side of the pickup cover. Slide screws through the top side of the pickguard so that they are sticking out Make sure to install the humbucker with the SCREW SIDE OUT.
- Page 10 Step 15 Step 14 START THREADS ON HUMBUCKER MOUNTS READY TO SOLDER NEW PICKUP INTO PLACE While carefully pressing the back of the humbucker onto the screws, use a Here we have the humbucker threads started, and we are ready to solder our screwdriver to start the threads from the front of the pickup cover.
- Page 11 PULL-BACK GROUND WIRE Using the same method as we did in step 6 we will solder the black signal wire LAMBERTONES Humbuckers come with a simple shielded grounding wire to the same spot that we removed the original pickup from.
- Page 12 Step 19 Step 18 SOLDER GROUND SHIELDING TO BACK OF POT CHECK SOLDERING WITH OHM METER Like we did in step 7 we will do the reverse by holding our soldering tip on the If you have access to a multi/ohm meter then this is a great time to check your shielding while pressing it into the solder pool that is already sitting on the soldering skills and see if you have proper connections.
- Page 13 Step 21 Step 20 STRING AND ATJUST PICKUP HEIGHT INSTALL PICKGUARD AND SET PICKUP HEIGHT Restring the guitar and roughly set pickup height. Notice the neck pickup is higher here than the bridge pickup. Fret the highest fret (press down on the Time to reinstall the pickguard! Carefully flip it over and tuck all the wires inside highest fret - in our case the 22nd fret) and notice the distance between the so that no cables are pinched between the pickguard and the body and lightly...
- Page 14 In order to achieve the best tone from your LAMBERTONES we suggest using backside of the card that came in your LAMBERTONES pickup box. Use that to the string action gauge to measure the pickup height to the string. The setup measure the height of your pickups to the bottom of the strings.
- Page 15 RE-STRING. DONE! Adjusting the angle of attack on our pickups has a significant impact on the Congratulations! You have officially installed your new LAMBERTONES into your shape of your tone. Here’s the setup today after it has been properly measured.
- Page 16 Always measure from the top of the pickup (screws if a humbucker or P90, poles for single coils) to the bottom of the strings. Pickup Heights “the GRINDER” Low E - 0.090” High E - 0.140” “the CREMA” Low E - 0.100” High E - 0.175”...
- Page 17 Thank you for joing the LAMBERTONES family. We couldn’t be more excited to continue growing our musical family of tone enthusiasts! If you have any comments or questions please send us an email or give us a call, we would...
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