✔ Solderless Install
✔ Solderless Pickup Changes
✔ Master Tone + Master Volume Control (All Three Pickups)
✔ Improved Clarity & Control Tapers
Super Easy, Solderless Install
All ObsidianWire Pro-Wired Electronics are super easy to install, and allow for solder-less pickup changes with ObsidianWire Plug, Play & Enjoy connectors.
The Magical Strat® – Neck & Bridge Pickup Blend
Blend your neck and bridge pickups together and get some killer tonal diversity in your Fender® Stratocaster®
With a master volume and master tone control the Custom Blender Harness packs your traditional Strat® tones into a smaller space, leaving the third tone control free.
This becomes the blender control, adding the ability to blend the neck and bridge pickups in together. This is amazing for adding a range of musical mids to your lead tone (like the bell like effects David Gilmour gets in his signature Strat) or for adding some twang to your rhythm, just like you find in the middle position on a Tele®. When you need a complete wall of sound, you can even mix all three pickups together by flicking the five way switch to position 2 or 4.
Blender Control Function
Switch Positions Blender Control ON (Position 1)
1 – Bridge Pickup + Neck Blended in
2 – Bridge & Middle Pickup + Neck Blended in
3 – Middle Pickup
4 – Neck & Middle Pickup + Bridge Blended in
5 – Neck Pickup + Bridge Blended in
When it is time to ease back to your traditional switch positions, simply roll the blender knob off, and it will remove itself completely from the circuit.
Switch Positions Blender Control OFF (Position 10)
1 – Bridge Pickup
2 – Bridge & Middle Pickup
3 – Middle Pickup
4 – Neck & Middle Pickup
5 – Neck Pickup
Control Layout
Switch: 5-way
Control 1: Master Volume
Control 2: Master Tone (All three pickups)
Control 3: Blender Control (Blends in Neck or Bridge Pickup)
Crystal Clear Tone
To make your tone crystal clear at lower volumes we also include an ObsidianWire Custom Spec Treble Bleed Mod. This prevents tone 'muddiness' at low volumes by allowing high frequencies to pass along a separate path to your amp, rather than being stopped short by the increasing resistance at the volume control.
World’s Best Craftsmanship and Components
- ObsidianWire Custom Select Pots (Crafted by CTS) (+/-8%) US Spec Split Shaft / 24 Spline
- Genuine Oak Grigsby Switch
- Genuine Switchcraft Output Jack
- ObsidianWire Custom Select 150 Series Polyester Film Capacitor 0.022uf (+/-5%)
- ObsidianWire Premium Selected Volume Mod / Treble Bleed – Improved Volume Taper & Clarity
Compatibility
American and Mexican series Fender® Strat® – Direct Fit // Right Hand Guitar Only
Japanese Fender & Squiers® – You will need to widen the control holes out to 10mm and get new US Spec, 24 spline knobs to fit the higher grade electronics.
Other Models – We cannot guarantee that these will fit any other guitar.
RIGHT-HANDED GUITARS ONLY – DOES NOT FIT LEFT-HANDED GUITARS
