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Custom HSS Loaded Pickguard for Strat®

Have us build your dream Loaded Pickguard, complete with a set of Obsidian® Pro-Wired™ Electronics, world class pickups and super high quality hardware.

Super Easy, Solder-less Install

  • Custom Loaded HSS Pickguard
  • Built with Obsidian® Pro-Wired™ Electronics
  • Your choice of world class pickups
  • Fully shielded pro-grade Obsidian® pickguard
  • Super Easy, Solderless Install

Regular price
US$319.00
Regular price
Sale price
US$319.00

Custom Build: Ships 6 - 12 Business Days

Ships From: ObsidianWire, New Zealand

ObsidianWire Black HSS loaded pickguard for Strat with Parchment covers
Back view of the ObsidianWire HSS loaded pickguard for Strat featuring the Custom HSS 7 Way harness
ObsidianWire Mint Green HSS loaded pickguard for Strat with Aged White covers
Custom HSS Loaded Pickguard for Strat®

You Design It, We Build It...

Custom HSS Loaded Pickguard for Strat®

Have us build your dream Pickguard complete with a set of Pro-Wired Electronics, world class pickups and super high quality hardware.

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The Wiring

Option 1. Custom HSS / HSH for Strat® Gen2 - 5 Way

  • For HSS & HSH Strat® (Switchable Modes)
  • Intelligent Switching
  • 500k for Humbucker Clarity
  • 250k for Single Coil Warmth

Our all new 'Gen2' HSS Strat wiring harness incorporates intelligent switching to give you the full clarity of your humbuckers AND tame your single coils, more useable tone and volume controls & greater clarity

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Option 2. Custom HSS / HSH for Strat® Gen2 - 7 Way

All of the above, Plus the 7 way switch upgrade

7-WAY SWITCH // GILMOUR MOD

The sweetest bell like Strat® tone. he Obsidian® 7-Way Switch allows you to play your neck and bridge pickups together for the sweetest bell like tones, or even all three pickups together. The switch is built in to your tone control by use of a push/pull pot, so no extra mods are required to your guitar.

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Option 3. Custom Lambertones

HSS for Strat®

  • A Lambertones // ObsidianWire™ Collab.
  • Custom built for HSS Strat®
  • TUNABLE SPLIT COIL (for fuller single coil sounds)
  • Pickup Matched Tone Controls (500k & 250k)
  • IGNEOS™ Firm Grip Pots
  • Fits Fender® HSS Strat®
  • Fits Squier® HSS Strat® with Adjustments

The Custom Lambertones HSS is the result of a design collaboration between Lambertones Pickups, and ObsidianWire, with a TUNABLE SPLIT COIL control for your humbucker, and Obsidians new range of super sturdy, 'Firm Grip' IGNEOS™ tone and volume controls.

TUNABLE SC (COIL SPLIT) 

Turn your humbuckers in to single coils, and back again. To add true versatility to your guitar we build in TUNABLE SC, to split your humbucker to a singlecoil for lower output, more dynamic tones.

For this harness Kurtis suggested we incorporate a resistor in series to ground on the push pull pot which gives a much warmer, fuller single coil sound than can be achieved with a standard split coil setup. 

We have taken this further by turning the idea in to a Coil Split 'Voice' control, which allows you to fine tune the amount of signal that is sent to ground.

  • 'QUIET' = FULL SPLIT (TRADITIONAL COIL SPLIT)
  • 'LOUD = SEMI SPLIT (LAMBERTONES SPLIT FOR FULLER SPLIT COIL)

TUNABLE SC is built in to your volume controls using push/pull pots, so no extra mods are required to your guitar

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The Pickups

Option 1. ToneRider® THE ALNICO II

This set combines neck and bridge TRS4 Alnico II Blues strat pickups with our best-selling AC2 bridge humbucker, with wider F-spacing.

Perfect for a warm, bluesy strat sound but still with a classic PAF bite in the bridge.

Neck 6.1k / Mid 6.2k / Bridge 8.3k

Option 2. ToneRider® THE OVERWOUND HSS

With all three pickups slightly overwound on Alnico V magnets, this set is designed to give a little more push. 

Combining our Classic Blues single coils with our new Birmingham AC5 bridge humbucker. This set sizzles! Neck 6.3k / Mid 6.4k / Bridge 8.7k

The Look

Choose your favorite pickguard and knob combo.

Need inspiration?

Check out some of our favorite combos Here

The Install

Solderless Loaded Pickguard Install

Solderless Install

All Obsidian® loaded pickguards allow for a quick and easy solderless install using our own solderless Pro-Wired™ Electronics

Fitting

Loaded Pickguards (for Strat)

Obsidian® loaded pickguards for Stratocaster® are made to fit modern Fender Strat® bodies with 11 hole pickguards perfectly. Other bodies including Squier, import and after market type guitars may need adjustments to routing, or screw hole placement. 

  • Mounting Hole Pattern: Modern Fender 11 hole
  • Control Cavity Routing: Fits genuine Fender Stratocaster
    Other guitars may need adjustment
  • Cavity depth: Minimum 34mm (1.26”)
    7-Way wiring always require full depth cavity around tone controls
  • Pickup Cavity Routing: Check pickup compatibility before ordering. Humbucker loaded pickguards require full size humbucker routing.

Control Plates (for Tele)

Obsidian® loaded control plates for Telecaster® are made to fit modern Fender Tele® bodies perfectly. Other bodies including Squier, import and after market type guitars may need adjustments to routing, or screw hole placement. 

  • Mounting Hole Spacing: 150mm from center to center
  • Control Cavity Routing: Fits genuine Fender Telecaster
    Other guitars may need adjustment
  • Cavity depth: Minimum 34mm (1.26”)
    7-Way wiring always require full depth cavity around tone controls
  • Pickups: ObsidianWire Pro-Wired Electronics are generally made for standard two wire pickups. For different wire types select the Custom Universal harness. the Custom 4-Way harness requires a three wire neck pickup, or a solder join to add a new wire.

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Pro-Wired™ Pickguards

  • Solderless Install

    Quick & Easy install using with Obsidian® solderless wiring

  • Built for Strat®

    Built to be a comprehensive upgrade for your Stratocaster®

  • Pro-Grade

    World class components and build quality for world class tone and durability