Demo: What is 7-Way Strat Wiring? // ObsidianWire Custom HSS for Stratocaster

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For HSS: Obsidian® Custom HSS for Strat ® 7 Way

For SSS: Custom '7-Way' for Strat® // GILMOUR SWITCH (for SSS)

Watch Landon Bailey do a play through demo of our ultimate Strat wiring harness.

Got a favourite Stratocaster wiring setup??? Tell us about it in the comments

[dylancave]

Just ordered the Gilmour SSS kit, upgrading my squier 🎸

[fawkesandhound]

Adding this to a partscaster I’m working on!

[Mr.Goldbar]

I wish you made a version with all 500K pots.
I usually don't like 250K on anything, defeats the point of single coils in my opinion

It could also be cool to have a second push pull for split instead of auto split :)

[MrAndfio]

Do you have a schematic of wiring a humbucker to a 7 way wired stratocaster ?

[willgordon]

What's the output of your pickups, I don't think splitting a PAF sounds good. But your's did. Keep it up.

[johnbryant]

Ordered mine on Friday! Can't wait going in my G&L legacy tribute, the stock switch was wanky.

[Phoenixchildx]

Does it work with the American ultra series?

[KYCDK]

im gonna get the sss one

im just thinking, doesn't it make more sense for the pot that activates the neck pickup to also be the tone pot that controls the tone for the neck pickup?

idk, just makes more sense to have the first tone pot that controls the tone of the neck pickup to also be the pot that activates the always on neck pickup rather than it being the bridge and middle tone pot

[OhGawdHesGotAGun]

Well, the most complex part of this install is where exactly to plug which wires into the the 10-port panel. Might not be rocket science, but I'm looking for guidance & this video is "some guy likes his new pickups, had no probs installing them, here's a split second view of the product, now back to this guy jamming us to near sleep". I could've mentioned the fact the video quality is worse than the backup camera in my 6yr old Subaru, but hey, why trip a dwarf...
I bought the same Obsidian kit (7-way), and I'm installing it on a Fender American Performer HSS. I'm installing a Shawbucker 2 bridge pickup to replace the double-tap humbucker that came with it. I'm not interested in retaining coil splitting anyway, so good riddance to the pots that were in there. All wires prepped, ready to install.
According to the instructions, I'm using the guide for "Custom HSS / HSS 7-Way" config, per the included instructions.

Output Jack: white wire hot, pos.#2, black wire ground, pos.#1.

Neck Pickup: white wire hot, pos #4. black wire ground, pos #3.
Middle Pickup: yellow wire hot, pos.#6. black wire ground, pos. #5.

So far so good, now we come to the Humbucker. This 'Shawbucker 2' bridge humbucker has 5 wires: Bare ground wire, red, green, white, black.

Printed Instructions with the Obsidian kit:

Pos.#7 is "Grnd (S.Start)"
Pos.#8 is "Hot (N.Start)"
Pos.#9 is "Series (S.Finish)"
Pos.#10 is "Series (N.Finish)"

Same instructions on Obsidian website:

Pos.#7 is "Bridge Ground"
Pos.#8 is "Bridge Hot"
Pos.#9 is "Bridge Series 1"
Pos.#10 is "Bridge Series 2"

[garylubbe]

Let’s hear it.. hear what? More playing next time hey.. 250k vs 500k good contrast.