Gibson: Les Paul 50s Tribute (humbucker) Part 3

This is how it looks like underneath the control cavity cover- all neat & tidy. It is so because Gibson used a circuit board for the connections, the pickup & output jack wires attach themselves to the board via clip insertions, very similar to EMG's solderless schematics. I've detached one of the pickup's clips there so you can have a better look at it...

This makes our lives easier because should we wish to remove the pickups & transfer them elsewhere, it's a matter of unclipping & re-clipping; painless, solderless.

But here's the other side of the story- should you wish to remove the default pickups & have your choice pickups in there instead, how do you solder the new ones to the circuit board? You can't because you need the terminal clips for the attachment & these are not available off-the-shelves. The last time I checked, replacement Gibson humbuckers do not come with those ends clip-ready so I find this very annoying. So the only way is to remove the entire circuit board (like I did as depicted above) & get on with traditional wiring. 

To be continued...