'Everything' you need to know about

• installing your solder-in pickups P-90 Hx & Strat & Tele
• installing your NoSoldering Harness P-90 Hx & Strat & Tele
• using your Harness Strat & Tele
• DIY shielding
• custom wirograms (bridge / neck humbuckers & Mustangs)
• changing Strat pickup covers
• soldering tips

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Soldering Install Guide

Installing P-90 Hx Soapbar & Dog-ear covers in solid body such as Les Paul, LP Jnr and PRS and soldering to existing wiring harness.

Harness Install Guide

Installing P-90 Hx into guitar with any Kinman No-Soldering Harness (Strat K5 / K7 / K9 or Tele TK3 / TK4 / TK9)

Arch Top F-hole guitar

Installing P-90 Hx into Dog-Ear covers on an Arch Top F-hole guitar

Harness install guides:

3 x Regular passive Strat pickups: Replacing with Kinman pickups in a NoSoldering Harness K5 for Strats. front or rear rout control cavity. Revision-1.

3 x Regular passive Strat pickups: Replacing with Kinman pickups in a NoSoldering Harness K7 for Strats. front or rear rout control cavity. Revision-18.

3 x Regular passive Strat pickups: Replacing with Kinman pickups in a NoSoldering Harness for Strats; front or rear rout control cavity.

• NoSoldering Harness K9 Rev2 & 3 (earlier versions until June 2008)
• NoSoldering Harness K9 Rev4 (version made circa May/June 2008) 1.3Mb
• NoSoldering Harness K9 Rev5 (latest version made July 2008 and later) 1.3Mb

3 x Active EMG pickups: Replacing with Kinman pickups in a NoSoldering Harness for Strats. Revision-4

3 x Fender SCN Strat pickups with S1 switching system replacing with Kinman pickups using the S1 switch.

2 x Fender SCN Strat pickups with HSS S1 switching system replacing with Kinman pickups using the S1 switch.

2 x regular Strat single coils with a splitting bridge humbucker. Replacing with Kinman Strat pickups in a Bridge humbucker NoSoldering Harness Rev-2

Adaptor kits for connecting existing pickup to Kinman Harness:

Switching function charts:

K7 Strat pickup selection chart. Depicts selection of the 7+ sounds made possible by my special K7 Mix pot.

K9 Strat pickup selection chart. Depicts 9+ sounds made possible by my special K9 system.

Soldering install guide:

Soldering tips

Guide for soldering into existing wiring & controls. Use in conjunction with regular Strat wirogram (below).

Wirogram regular Strat with 3 single coils (use in conjunction with Install Guide above)

No Pickguard install:

Mounting pickups without pickguard, direct to wood.

Changing covers:

Safetly remove and replace covers on Kinman Strat pickups

Harness install guides:

2 x regular Tele pickups: Replacing with Kinman pickups in a NoSoldering Harness TK4 version up until July 2008 (1.4Meg)

2 x regular Tele pickups: Replacing with Kinman pickups in a NoSoldering Harness TK4 Rev 4 version after July 2008 (1.9Meg)

3 x Nashville Tele (3 pickups): Replacing with 3 Kinman pickups in a NoSoldering Harness TK9 Rev-3 (1.1Meg)

Adaptor kits for connecting existing pickup to Kinman Harness:

Switching function charts:

TK4 Tele pickup selection chart. Depicts 4 sounds made possible by my special TK4 switch.

TK9 Tele pickup selection chart. Depicts 9+ sounds made possible by my special TK9 system.

Soldering install guide:

Soldering tips

Guide for soldering into your existing wiring & controls. Use in conjunction with regular Tele wirogram (below).

• Wirogram: regular Tele with 2 pickups and Kinman 3 conductor neck pickup (versions made after June 2008, use in conjunction with Install Guide above)
• Wirogram: regular Tele with 2 pickups and Kinman 2 conductor neck pickup (earlier versions made up to June 2008, use in conjunction with Install Guide above)
• Wirogram: 2 x regular Tele pickups: Replacing with Kinman pickups in a Fender Tele S1 system. (2 conductor cable)
• Wirogram: 2 x regular Tele pickups: Replacing with Kinman pickups in a Fender Tele S1 system. (3 conductor cable)
• Wirogram: 2 x regular Baja Tele pickups: Replacing with Kinman pickups in a Fender Baja Tele S1 system. (3 conductor cable)

No Pickguard install:

Mounting pickups without pickguard, direct to wood.

DIY shielding and general info

(using your switch and pots etc)

Stratocaster: Mixing 2 single coils with a bridge humbucker. Uses a 500K/250K dual gang volume pot from Allparts.

Stratocaster: Mixing 2 single coils with a neck humbucker. Uses a 500K/250K dual gang volume pot from Allparts.

Telecaster 4 position switch: 3 conductor neck pickup cable (after July 08) or 2 conductor neck pickup cable (until July 08)

Mustang: extra functionality wirogram