David Gilmour Wiring Diagram

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David gilmour wiring diagram. In this post i will show you a wiring diagram of the neck pickup switch. Hi i hope someone out there in the the guitar world can help me. Photos of the various incarnations of david gilmour s black strat. The mini toggle adds two extra switch positions on top of the classic 5 positions bridge neck and bridge middle neck.

Has anyone have the wiring schematics for this mod all and any help gratefully received. First here is a bit of history about the black strat. This stratocaster wiring harness is modeled after the fender custom shop david gilmour of pink floyd model guitar. His is a diagram of the wiring.

My guitar has a fender custom shop super switch with like 20 lugs on it. 7 way strat wiring diagram using a volume cts push pull pot. David gilmour bought this guitar from the famous manny s music store in new york city in 1970 as a replacement for several guitars which were stolen just six weeks prior while touring with pink floyd including david s first black stratocaster. 1 x aluminium control shield modified to accommodate the mini toggle switch 1 x genuine usa made crl heavy duty switch 3 x genuine cts audio taper pots 250k or 500k 1 x genuine sprague orange drop cap 0 022uf 0 033uf or 0 047uf vintage cloth covered wire usa made spdt mini toggle switch.

It s easy to do. If you are converting a strat that already has factory wiring skip to 31 14. This wiring harness will give you great service for years. Contents of the dave gilmour wiring harness kit.

May 16 hi i want to do the david gilmour toggle switch mod to my strat but the wiring diagrams i find for it show a standard 5 way switch. Known as the 7 way strat wiring setup it was famously used by david gilmour to give an extra dynamic to his strat. Our s7w gilmour style 7 way wiring harness brings the tone control that david gilmour has used in his famous black strat. The same result is achievable by using a mini spdt toggle switch aka the gilmour strat mod.

This is something uncommon what david gilmour has got in his signature stratocaster guitar black strat. 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. Dec 16 in this post i will show you a wiring diagram of the neck pickup switch. It allows him to switch on the neck pickup when the selector is connecting only the bridge or the bridge and the middle single coils.

And you can modify your strat to get the same tones. The neck and bridge on setting is very similar to a telecaster s middle position which is something a strat won t.