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Thank you for choosing Gunstreet. below is the instructions for a 50s Wiring to be installed in your Les Paul.

Install the switch first

Installing Pickups

 PIckup name Key

Black - (+)=Hot Output

red&white - (S)= Series link

green - (-)=Coil Finish

bare - (G) = Ground

Starting with the Bridge pickup

1.Tape off your series link

2.Solder your pickup’s hot to the white wire

3.Solder your pickups coil finish to the colored wire

Next, Solder the bare wire of the pickup to the casing of the pot

Move to the neck pickup

Like with the bridge pickup tape off the series link to the pickups. next, solder the pickup’s hot wire to the left lug on the volume pot

Solder both the pickups coil finish and bare wire as well as the earthing ground wire (coming from your guitars tailpiece) to the casing of the pot