Fine piece of gear. Beware of packaging when shipping.
First, I'd like to say that Obsdian Wire is first Quality Pro Wired Electronics. It's my second kit. I already installed a Telecaster Pro Wired Harness and it just sound amazing. Really ! My only concern this time with the Stratocaster Obsidian Kit is that it arrived poorly packed. No padding inside the box. So the harness was moving and bouncing freely inside the box. It's strange for fragile electronic. No double box... Just the little black box unsealed in a thin plastic enveloppe. A fine quality piece of gear like Obsidian Wire deserve a decent packaging : padding inside the box so the harness don't move around and a wrap plastic around the little black box. Also when shipping around north America, please use a double box for shipping. Customers will for sure ready to pay few dollars more to be sure it arrive safe at the doors. Hoping everything is fine and there is no soldering joint break.
Red Squier Stratocaster
Very good product, works great. However, I sometimes have a problem getting the tip of the wire into the slot far enough or at the correct angle to secure it. Also, because the slots are so close together. it gets a little tricky to work the wires in. I'm wondering if it would be easier to insert the tips of the wires if I were to tin them first. This would make the end of the wire stiff and maybe easier to insert. By the way, if you change the type color to black here and on your website instead of light gray it would be much easier to see and read.. Especially that light goldish color you use for your wiring diagrams. Very stylish, but hard to read. Thanks, Gary
Awesome
Easy to install, feels great, sounds great, absolutely worth it
Traditional Vintage Plus for Strat
Great product, good quality. I have 2 of them..
Traditional Vintage Plus For Strat
If you’re looking to improve the internals and tone of your guitar this is a no brainer in terms of quality and ease.
I’ve been playing guitar since I was a kid and used to study jazz and blues but have never been a guitar technician in any sense. I got rid of my guitars including my original strat eventually because of other interests.
Years later I stumbled on a free squire in my apartment lobby. Body looked used to say the least. This became my guitar. I couldn’t justify paying for a strat because I didn’t make money with my music. That was my excuse.
Then I decided to upgrade the internals. So recently I bought some fender strat noiseless pickups paired with obsidian wire and of course it sounds better than the squire it was. But it sounded, I feel, better than the strat from my youth.
Thanks to the super clean and high quality and super simple solderless installation I was able to improve my sound quality and my musical life without breaking the bank.
Thanks Obsidian!
Great!
Easy to follow instructions, and quick and simple solderless installation! Works and sounds great on my Squire rebuild. Highly recommended.
So Easy!
I love the ease of set up with Obsidian! The pots are really good. It makes say up so quick. This is my fifth different setup and I have had no problems with any of them.
I highly recommend Obsidian!
Easy-peasy, lemon squeezy.
I've been playing a MIM HSH Strat, that i converted to HSS with a Sigler/920D custom loaded pickguard. But, somewhere between Sigler's wiring and my guitar tech's installation... it never sounded right. It was a subtle problem—not quite 'broken' or wrong... just not good. It has been like that for five years. I priced getting it inspected/fixed by a tech, but was put off by the price, and uncertainty about whether anything was actually wrong.
Fast-forward to a few weeks ago, and i was entranced by Brett Papa's Nash s- guitar, and its Lollar Pickups. I searched for more Nash demos, and Lollar demos, and came away with some gear lust. Decided to bypass a tech, order the Obsidian, and try to do it myself. Bought the Lollars, and received both on the same day. Instead of my normal procrastination when i'm intimidated by something, i went right at it. Wired up a new pickguard, the pickups and the Obsidian. Screwdriver tested it, and immediately all the pickups were working properly. Screwed it all together, and BAM—almost like magic, my MIM Strat sounds like a $2,000 Nash.
Seriously, all guitars ought to be wired with a solderless harness.
Even though this one little experience has broken me in, to the world of doing my own simple mods and i'm now planning to get a soldering iron to tackle other projects, i think i'll still use an Obsidian when i build a guitar for the first (and maybe second) time. It's that good.
Traditional Vintage Plus for Strat®
Got the little black box and upon opening it, one can see this is made with care. The thing oozes quality just by the looks of it. I bought this to upgrade my 20-year old Squier Stratocaster. The sound has a new quality, the words richer and solid come to mind. Hard to describe, but better than before, and it was already good. Totally worth it!
Really high quality
I wish they had something for hhh strats however this wire kit makes my guitar sound 100 time better
Great product
Very good product. Built with high quality components and the assembly/soldering is top notch. The sound of my Strat has never been like this before and the controls are fantastic. The tone knobs are useable from 1-10 and I can still get a very good sound with the volume from 4-10.
Minus 0.5 star because of the quick connector. Works well with solid core wires but more difficult with multi-core wires..
Will not hesitate to order one for another build.
Highly recommended.
Volcanic & Glassy
Finally no more fiddling with solder iron. I don't think there's a better option for really enabling your Strat. It added a completely new dimension to my AVRI Stratocaster. I will upgrade my other Fenders & Gibsons guitars as well.
Strat Traditional Vintage Control Module
This is my 3rd kit (1 Tele/2 Strat). Install is breeze.. All the volume/tone controls fit on the control shafts. 5 way switch knob fit as well. Easy fit into the pick guard. Plug in the guitar, turn on the amp; and you get sounds...easy./simple.
Saw a review from Daves fun and stuff youtube channel where he said the product was terrible. Of course he never said why. From his perspective it puts his "skills" out of job. No need to pay him to have him solder for you.
Awesome!
This is my second purchase from Obsidian and again their product is amazing. I had previously been using their HSS wiring kit on my strat and it sounded awesome, but I was curious whether or not I could get away with using 500k pots for my SSL-5's in the neck and middle since they're relatively high output single coils. I was blown away by how much more even and articulate the whole guitar is now. The Humbucker in the bridge and the single coils are in perfect sync. Everything these guys make is quality and incredibly easy to install.. Trust me, you won't regret any purchase from Obsidian Wire!
stra t traditional wire kit
The switch on my Squire Classic Vibe 50 Stra t failed. I decided this was a good time to upgrade to a better swirch , pots and input jack. However i was not sure I could purchase all the separate parts and install them. Then I found your product. It was super easy to install and it added a treble circuit and the ability to adjust the tone on my bridge puckup. The kit used quality parts which I am sure will last for many years. My guitar sounds great. The kit allowed me to spend more time playing the guitar and less time fixing my guitar. It is a great product and it fit my Squier without any modifications.Thank you.
traditional vintage for strat
Excellent product, extremely easy to use, great tones
Wonderful product
I am not good a soldering, but my Strat needed a new output jack and I wanted to drop a new bridge pickup in it. It took me about 30 minutes and I’m very impressed. The quality of the hardware is flawless. The treble bleed feature is also very handy.
Very pleased with Obsidian Wire
This is a great product and very easy to install! Support from Matthew was awesome! Highly recommend!!
Wow.
I just got one of your Vintage Plus harnesses off of Amazon.
Wow. The build quality and ease of installation and improvement in my tone is absolutely insane. What a fantastic product. I will be switching over all my older guitars.
Even the aesthetic of the PCB and the packaging is fantastic.
I had to email to let you know how satisfied I am. Your stuff is top tier.
Excellent
I installed this kit into a Custom Shop 69 Stratocaster with CS 69 pickups. Tone was vastly improved compared with the stock electronics. Installation was so simply and wire connections are easy to make and solid once made. I cannot recommend Mathew's kits highly enough... if only I had more guitars to put them into!
Great design
I put this in a 2017 American Strat with Fender Deluxe Drive pickups. Tone is awesome. I have an old Epiphone Les Paul Studio that I think I'll do next. These kits are perfect for someone (like me) that hates to do soldering.
Excellent Upgrade!
I dropped this into a Custom Shop Designed 60's Strat - it fit with zero problems, worked perfectly and improved the tone of the stock pickups. A great product, a solid value, easy to install and an overall serious upgrade!
Good Quality Product
Good quality product, made it fit into an Aerodyne Fender Strat with a few minor mod,s works great Im happy... Good service good product....
Simple yet stunning
I just started up a guitar company and I'm not one for messy wiring, I saw this product on a google search and instantly thought that I need this product inside my guitar builds. The package arrived in great time and what a stunning and excellent design which made my latest guitar build a joy to make. Customer service was among the best I've ever encountered.
