Epiphone Les Paul Wiring Upgrade Kit

This Les Paul Wiring Kit is a powerful upgrade for the stock electronics in your Epiphone. Packed with high-quality components from trusted manufacturers, it’s an affordable way to significantly enhance the clarity, responsiveness, and tonal range of your guitar.

Compatibility

This kit is a direct replacement for Epiphone and other import Les Paul models. It includes Alpha 500k audio taper pots, which have a smaller shaft diameter to fit the existing control holes in Epiphone guitars without the need for drilling. Your existing knobs will also fit perfectly.

All of our kits come with a clear, easy-to-follow wiring diagram. For step-by-step installation help, check out our video guide on wiring a Les Paul.

What’s Included:
• 4 x 500k Matched Alpha audio taper pots (10% tolerance)
• 2 x 0.022µF Capacitors (Orange Drop or Paper-in-Oil)
• 1 x Switchcraft USA toggle switch – short or long frame (long frame includes deep thread nut)
• 5ft Gavitt braided push-back wire
• 1 x Switchcraft USA ¼” jack socket
• 50cm tinned copper ground wire
• Heat shrink tubing

Looking for a different colour switch tip? Check out our range of Switchcraft-compatible tips here.

Orange Drop Capacitors

Orange Drop capacitors are a favourite among professional builders and touring guitarists for good reason. Used as standard in many Gibson models since 2014, they’re prized for their reliability, tonal consistency, and virtual zero failure rate. When your gear needs to perform night after night, you want components that deliver the same tone every time — and that’s exactly what Orange Drops are known for.

Alpha Audio Taper Pots

Alpha pots are the preferred choice for import guitars like Epiphones due to their slightly smaller shaft diameter, making installation simple and clean. While CTS pots are often used in high-end builds for their heavy-duty construction, there’s no tonal difference between Alpha and CTS — especially when matched and metered as we do in this kit.

We supply audio taper pots for both volume and tone controls to ensure a smooth, natural response. Each set is carefully matched to provide consistent performance across all pickup positions.

Switchcraft 3 way toggle switch

Large guitar manufacturers will very often cut corners by using cheaper components, particularly on the input jack. Switchcraft have a great reputation for using only the highest quality materials in their input components, providing a significant durability and performance upgrade over cheaper parts.

Switchcraft Mono Output Jack

Regarded as one of the best in the industry. Imperial Thread, made in the USA.

Gavitt Braided Shielded Wire

Used in the majority of high-end, genuine Gibson guitars, Gavitt Braided Shielded Wire is a clever invention that utilises the outer 'braided' portion as the ground whilst the hot runs inside the outer braid to connect up your volume and input jacks. This greatly reduces the number of wires inside the cramped cavities of most Gibson/Epiphone models, making the whole re-wiring process simpler and cleaner. 

Gavitt Cloth Push Back Wire

Heastshrink Tubing 

Perfect for insulating joints, and for funnelling wires through tight spots. An excellent and inexpensive way of keeping your wiring tidy. You will need a heat gun or the shaft of a soldering iron to shrink the tubing once fitted!