David Gilmour Strat Wiring Diagram
This stratocaster wiring harness is modeled after the fender custom shop david gilmour of pink floyd model guitar.
David gilmour strat wiring diagram. About face david gilmour live at hammersmith odeon live. Back in 2011 fender custom shop released a david gilmour model that used his 7 way wiring and a recessed mini switch positioned between the volume and tone controls of the guitar. A faithful reproduction of dave gilmour s black strat wiring configuration. 7 way strat wiring diagram using a volume cts push pull pot.
Most of our older guitar parts lists wiring diagrams and switching control function diagrams predate formatting which would allow us to make them available on this page as pdf files. If you are converting a strat that already has factory wiring skip to 31 14. Our s7w gilmour style 7 way wiring harness brings the tone control that david gilmour has used in his famous black strat. We only use the highest quality parts for our wiring harnesses.
By activating the mini toggle switch with the 5. And you can modify your strat to get the same tones. This is something uncommon what david gilmour has got in his signature stratocaster guitar black strat. The neck and bridge on setting is very similar to a telecaster s middle position which is something a strat won t.
The function of the recessed mini toggle switch is to activate the neck pickup. In looking back over the last 2 1 2 years at this initial black strat project a lot of innovation and change has come about in the production of our custom black strat parts kits and assemblies. Is there a usa strat wiring diagram on this site. Known as the 7 way strat wiring setup it was famously used by david gilmour to give an extra dynamic to his strat.
How much of the pink floyd guitarist s go to instrument is still original. The same result is achievable by using a mini spdt toggle switch aka the gilmour strat mod. A significant feature of this kit is the recessed mini toggle switch. In this post i will show you a wiring diagram of the neck pickup switch.
If you do not find the list or diagram for your specific instrument on this page we may still be able to furnish you with a hard copy from our archive. Shop now for stratocaster fully loaded dave gilmour style stratocaster wiring harness with recessed mini toggle switch. This wiring harness will give you great service for years. The black strat project 1 project start.
The mini toggle adds two extra switch positions on top of the classic 5 positions bridge neck and bridge middle neck. It s easy to do. October 2008 project completed. It s a unique feature that is synonymous with gilmour s black strat.
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