The choice is all yours 🙂(full disclosure: we think it's worth it, though.)

@paco_rms proving a little trickier than we would have liked to get an SG solution right, but we'll get there...

@@ObsidianWire good luck, I hope you get it. I'm sure I'll buy one when available :)

Hi There, Yes. These are connected in parallel.

I would say the whole point of a volume control is to roll back volume :). The 50s wiring does allow a slight amount of treble roll off (Less than current Gibson wiring which gets muddy fast). Our 60s Plus setup retains treble at lower volumes.

Did you end up checking it out? I have an ultra that I plan to mod to hsh and really considering this piece

Hey there - we do get this request a lot but unfortunately can't get the parts we'd need for this just at the moment. We hope to be able to find a solution in the future but cannot be sure when this would be.

Hey Ed, sorry mate these don't fit an Ibanez.

Hi there, we don't have an option for a PRS at this stage sorry

Hi there, no sorry we don't have an option for a PRS at this stage.

Hi Travis, flick us an email at [email protected] and let us know what harness you have. We will be able to help.

Hi Dame, It can be done, but install may not be as straight forward. Flick us a message through our website contact for for more info.

Hi for a hot rail for my sss strat is there a spécial way to Connect ?

@@bobydaraiche5171 Yes. Use Black = Hot Green = Ground. Red + White need to be joined together and taped off so they do not ground out on anything.

@@ObsidianWire Green and Bare togueter in ground ? you forgot theres a Bare wire

@@bobydaraiche5171 Hi Bobby, Bare wires are an extra ground wire. These should always go to the screw down ground connector :)

Funny you should ask obsidianwire.com/products/custom-hss-hsh-for-strat

Merry Christmas Marshall!

😂 😂 😂 same happened to me

Thing is a straight up scam If it's not soldered, it's not gig worthy - period

Hi There, Flick us a message at [email protected]. We will be happy to help. We also have an install demo here kzbin.info/www/bejne/jKrKqmiseKedn9k plus plenty of help on our site here nz.obsidianwire.com/blogs/product-support/strat-install

@@ObsidianWire Appreciate the reply. Infuriatingly, there are so many vague references, most of them from Fender, but some from that wee booklet from Obsidian. Everyone's got a schema, a PDF, not so much as a tiny tab on each wire to tell you what the wire does. I'm not skilled in electronics, but I can solder a wire & insert a wire into a pinch-port, so why not give it a try. Shawbucker 2 --> American Performer Strat (2018, HSS) Since the default 'double-tap' humbucker is really awful, and after trying & failing to install a 'Free-Way 10-way switch' properly on this guitar, I was inspired by (convinced I was dumb enough to need) the solderless approach. Why the Obsidian solderless system isn't the defacto for all electric guitars, I can only assume is because the old days of 5lbs of solder & a hundred wires has become tradition, a fetish, or a general distaste for humanity... The complexities in an HSS with coil splitting is ridiculous. If I knew what I need to do every step, I could do it. I could have dumped it with a tech. I'm not cheap, I just want to learn how to do this stuff on my own. Without the Obsidian system, I wouldn't have been able to do it. Fender is mostly to blame here. They simply can't have a page for this humbucker with a path to the schema - it has to be a schema referring to a series, which has changed its wire colors with the season. For someone unskilled, installing a Shawbucker2 into the Obsidian system can be frustrating. I'm assuming the overall intent & design of this product is to make things easier, obvious & specific. "Out" (Why not say 'Output Jack'?) "N Start"? Just say 'North Start'! Maybe even tell us what that even is? "Series 1". What series? There are 4 wires. Anything other than "Red Wire, Green Wire..." is, as simple as it may be to you, an industry term. "Bridge Hot"? The entire humbucker is the bridge pickup. I thought 'Red' means hot. To Fender, it's 'Green'. These are the correct ports for the 4 humbucker wires: Port 7 - 'Ground, South Start': [translation: RED wire] Port 8 - 'Hot, N Start, Bridge Hot': [translation: GREEN wire Port 9 - 'Bridge Series 1, South Finish': [translation: BLACK wire Port 10 - 'Bridge Series 2, North Finish': [translation: WHITE wire Result: It works great, albeit a tiny crackle when changing switch positions, but that's likely shoddy grounding on my part.

Hi There, The playing starts about 1 minute in, and is pretty much all playing from there.

Hey There, We do our wiring a little different. Our modern harness includes a treble bleed so it stays crisp right the way through the volume control range.

I also came here to say this. You don't need a treble bleed with 50's wiring the configuration of cap and volume is pretty much a built in treble bleed. The difference is a 50's configuration will give you more interactive volume and tone. Rolling down the tone on a 50's wired guitar will also affect volume. With modern wiring this doesn't happen but you do get high tone loss with volume as a result.

@@ObsidianWire cleaned up a dark sounding les paul epiphone difference was night and day

@@type197 try a treble bleed with 50's wiring you'll surprise yourself. I used the mythos variable treble bleed with the 50's wiring and it still had helped brighten it on lower volume.

I recommend the HSS specific set for an HSS Strat. It makes install easier, and will sound better.

@@ObsidianWire thanks. Yes. I got it and installed it. Works great. Thanks so much.

Unfortunately not. You will need to source and install the ground wire for the bridge, and cavity if you have any shielding.

@@ObsidianWire just to clarify, the 2 wires both go into the PCB screw ground (both bridge and cavity) and that's all I need to do for the grounding of the system?

@@lordseph Hi There, You need to ground all metal parts to the harness (rather than grounding the harness to the guitar). For most setups this would be bridge and any cavity shielding. The screw connector can handle all of these. I hope this helps.

Hi There, You can turn the volume to almost zero with out the sound cutting out in the middle position, but at complete zero, the sound will cut. If you would like one pickup turned to zero (OFF), it is best to switch to the other pickup with the switch.

Hi There, Our 60s is built better than stock. It stays crystal clear at all volumes.

​@@ObsidianWire Treble bleed circuits are not classical 60's wiring. That's pretty confusing and you definitely should talk about that in the video. Because people will think the 60's option would be what most of the single cut guitars will have in them.

​@@johanneschristopherstahle3395you are right, he keeps saying we do it differently as if that changes the common explanation for what a 50's or 60's or treble bleed means, in fact he's making blanket statements that are incorrect