How to Install Guitar Pickups | Seymour Duncan Pickup Installation 101

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[budgetguitarist]

Although it's not mentioned in the video, this course is FREE. I just enrolled, and the course looks excellent. As someone who has spent over 25 years working in education, I usually laugh at what some companies call "courses, " but this course appears to be very well made and thought out. Even if you know what you're doing, it NEVER hurts to get a refresher. I look forward to going through the course this weekend. Well done, Seymour Duncan!!! PS - I have three Pearly Gates pickups. You guys rock.

[mishasuh]

I enrolled a few days ago, and the lesson is really high-quality and fantastic.
Studying electronics/physics in college for years makes me familiar with some fancy terms and numbers, but getting a well-organized, exclusive technical manual for pickup installation really helps me go through a solid workflow. The lesson covers slightest details like choosing solder lead and iron, and they are organized in the sense of step-by-step. It's like having a excellent workbench dedicated for the work.
I sincerely appreciate SD such a excellent course, and I am super willing to enroll upcoming courses!

[christianhagen]

Great stuff! Still I can‘t see the point in locking the content on the first day. I have just enrolled and want to start right away. But that is not possible. Why?

[onedominant]

Never soldered anything in my life, but want to install my new SD YJM pickups. The soldering kit is on its way. I will practice on some paperclips, which are cheap and expendable. Heaven help me. I will sign up for the course, most def, especially since seeing the one bundle of wires coming out of each pickup - no idea which goes where. These pickups should do wonders for this Squier Mini Strat. And I wish to high heaven that someone - anyone - would make a truly quality short scale guitar for people with really small hands, short fingers, and the early stages of RA. I can actually form chords without pain on the Mini's 22.75-inch scale. It is possible to make a smaller instrument that sounds good, but no one should have to buy a cheap chassis to rebuild a decent car on top of. The industry just assumes only a child would need a smaller instrument and will soon "grow into" a "real" one worthy of the moniker "instrument". At 55, I ain't gonna grow anymore than this. And, yeah, I'm late starting. That's because of the decades of teachers/players telling me to just give it up. I finally reached the age of eff it. I WILL learn to play, even if this Mini will be the only guitar I can EVER play. I will do what I can to make it as good as it can be. Sadly, I'll never have a tremolo though. None will fit this thing.

[StJimmy]

Should I be concerned that I just bought some Seymour Duncan’s yesterday and I get a notification for this video today?😅

[luisbasurto]

hey can you tell me the mounting screws measure please? It seems that not every pickup ring has it

[vancerosentreter]

Has anybody tried to upgrade the bridge pick up on an Ibanez guitar in which the new dual Hucker is about a quarter inch thicker, thus requiring the cavity to be deeper, allowing the string to be at the optimal distance from the finished pick up depth?

[nxzstudio]

Why would you lock content on the first day ? I just enrolled to get started with the new Pickup kit i got and now i have to wait a day for the course? Not sure who's brain dead idea that was. other than that i love Seymor Duncan pickups, but fix the lockout of your course!!!!

[zenchiefengineer]

No, it's not easy. Epiphone has these terminal plugs now. You show the schematic, but there's no way for use to know which terminal goes to what. You show us a representation on the plug, but it means nothing to us. The bare wire is black on the bridge harness, and white on the neck harness. The bare wire is the biggest wire on the corresponding pickups. The color code goes like this (and this is all you really need to tell us): bare goes to bare (of course), green goes to black, black goes to red, white goes to green, & red goes to white from your pickups to the Epiphone harness wires.