How To Swap Pickups In A Les Paul | Guitar Tech Tips | Ep. 73 | Thomann 

You sir are awesome! This video literally resolved an issue I was trying to find a solution for all over the internet! Thanks a lot! Greetings from Seattle 💪🏾

Great Instruction video. good camera angles for each step.. Thanks Kris.

One of the next Guitar Tech Tip episodes should be. How to remove your PCB board in your USA line Les Paul to install new pickups. I went for the Mojo Tone prewired kit, as it was impossible to find replacement connectors for my pickups and I didn`t wanted to order prepared conector cabels as Gibson used different PCB-connectors in different model years.

thanks for that video, you make things simple and efficient... looking at this I'm not afraid anymore to do it by myself ! :)

Excellent work. Proper.

can you please explain more clearly where exactly your soldering and to which pot?

Thank you sir , for your instructions on Humbucker swap on the Les Paul !!! I’ll be back many times, I don’t expect to ever master this , so I’ll keep this on my memory, for future reference . Thanks again . 🤠🤠🤠

One thing worth to be mentioned, original high adjustment screws are imperial, so if you change pickups make sure that holes for adjustment screws are also imperial. In case ther aren't you also have to change adjustment screws.

Great video..you make it all look so easy..thank's for posting..2thumbs up.

Good job!!!

I have to personally Thank you for this Video, this is the next Job.on.my.Les Paul Custom .

Great Video , I thank you so very much.!!!!! I have to check my Lead pickup to see why it's sounding different !!

Great Video !!!!!

Thank you so much!

Kris, Absolutely love the Les Paul. This was some great information. You are quite the technician now. Still makes me nervous to mess with my guitars though lol

Hey Kris! I‘ve have a question related to this topic. The neck pickup in my HB Les Pauls SC 550 plus is terribly angled. The front (towards the neck) of the pickup is far deeper inside than the back of the pickup (difference is easily 4 mm) It cant be regulated with the side screws. Any idea what do?

Any thoughts on why my neck pickup seems to have a weak signal. It’s sounds like volume 10 is volume 4. I’ve swapped pickups before and my soldering isn’t too bad.

Como siempre excelente video y muy buen trabajo Kris. No entendí mucho el por qué el cambio de micrófonos debido a problemas con el idioma. Saludos y felicitaciones!!!

2:42 this has become an ASMR video and YOU KNOW IT

I have a Chinese chibson Les Paul black beauty . The body looks great but the pick ups and wiring is terrible cheaply made. What would you suggest for pickup replacement and volume and tone control replacement. I'm looking for a late 60's sound. Thank's from Canada, Ron.

Les Paul and newer flying Vs have the same proceudre with switching pickups or has FLying V a bit difference?

My word man, get that drill away from the guitar!! got shivers watching that

Is it that easy to swap in mini humbuckers for humbuckers?

Which model of humbackers you prefer for a les paul gibson guitar? I mean, there are people that uses other brands than gibson ones. Some recommendation?

are all standard pickups for les paul fits?

Show us how to switch a Stratocaster bridge!

Sustainiac? How much cutting is needed on … let’s say you have Harley Benton SC custom Fr and you wanna put a sustainiac in it ? How much headache medicine should I buy before starting?

Hello what size of screws are the pickup ring

Hi i was wondering if you can help me , i purchase a new assembled harness kit for my les paul.I also purchased 1x 490 and 498 pick ups, unfortunately the 498 has 5 wires and the 490 has 1 wire wrapped with a neutral and i dont know where they should be soldered.can you help me.Thanks

So I watched this and came to the conclusion that I could do this. So I order the New pick-ups. Turns out that my Gibson LP2016 has quick connect. And those are hard to get. You dont have them, had to go on e-bay to get some.

Mine has a PCB, is it worth replacing it by a standard wiring?... Gibson Std 2009

Wow those bridge hardware came out flying. Poor finish. This hurts me to see!

stupid question, why did you only touch the volume pots and not tone? Thinking of upgrading to custom buckers in my 60's standard and have never worked on a guitar.

Is it permissible to only replace one pickup or must all pickups be replaced with the same brand?

Don't you have some decent guitars laying around to work on. :) Nice job.

Does anyone know where the ground wire goes when you put the pickup back?

Hey Kris... S.O.S. ich hab da ein problem, ich hab meine lieblingsgitarren falsch gefüttert, die haben mich heute angebrüllt wie die löwen, kann man da was machen 🤠???

Seems complicated.

I would never unscrew anything on a gorgeous guitar like this. Why buy a guitar and take out those buitiful humbucker pros. Just messed up a good guitar. It was already perfect. I'd like to see you put it back together that's what I would like to see.

Play dem bluuuuzzzzz!!!😓😓😅😅🐦

STOP SWAPPING PICKUPS! I'm going to help you drastically change your guitar for 1/2 the price of pickups.. #1) If you're running Gibson burstbucker pickups change the saddles to brass and tail piece to aluminum! These pickups are designed to be ran with this set up to produce a singing or bell like tone! If your using a burstbucker equipped Gibson standard usa or epiphone or even every single import on the market it likely has a zinc bridge, saddles and tail piece,this material produces a loud harsh attack and will make guitars sound overly trebley and cold and actually reduce sustain as zinc soaks vibration and doesn't react like steel, aluminum or brass... #2) Swap magnets, this will alter your guitars voice more than you can fathom and it costs around $10-$20 bucks.. It's not a difficult process and there's tons of videos showing you how to do it,it takes 15-20 mins and give your instrument a completely new tone.. #3) Also just simply covering or uncovering pickups changes the tone, most pickup covers are either brass or zinc and they effectively block more tone than people realize.. #4) swapping slugs and pole pieces! Most pole pieces are made of zinc and pot metal and or contain very little actual steel.. You want actual steel poles and slugs as they conduct the magnetic field better and produce a more defined attack from your strings..Along with this swapping the metal pole piece spacers inside the pickup to actual steel will make a difference in how you your pickup reacts.. All of these mods are cheaply and easily accomplished and will change any pickups tone, whether it's a cheap Chinese, Indonesian, Korean and even American humbucker these mods will produce a wayyyyy better more dynamic and user friendly pickup.. These parts add more to a pickup than the winding itself... You're welcome...

That was way too fast.

UUUHHHH, why did u remove the bridge and saddle?? lmaoo