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Pompeii Loaded Pickguard for Strat®

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$539.00 CAD
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The classic 'Black Strat' setup with a Gilmour inspired 7-Way & Overwound bridge pickup, pickguard build.

Super Easy, Solder-less Install

  • Obsidian® 7-Way // Gilmour Mod Switching
  • Obsidian® Custom Shop Overwound Bridge Pickup
  • Tonerider® Pure Vintage Neck & Middle Pickups
  • Fully Shielded 1 Ply Black Obsidian® Pickguard
  • High Quality Obsidian® Knobs & Pickup Covers (Parchment)
  • Comprehensive Wiring & Pickup Upgrade

Custom Shop: Built to Order

Fast Build Time: Ships in 2-5 Business Days

Express Shipping Available: DHL Express

The ObsidianWire Gilmour loaded pickguard with 1 ply black pickguard and parchment white pickup covers and knobs
The ObsidianWire Gilmour loaded pickguard with 1 ply black pickguard with true vintage pickups and custom 7 way wiring harness
Pompeii Loaded Pickguard for Strat®
Pompeii Loaded Pickguard for Strat®
Pompeii Loaded Pickguard for Strat®
Gilmour loaded 1 ply black pickguard with parchment white pickup covers on a David Gilmour inspired black strat

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Pompeii Loaded Pickguard for Strat®

The classic 'Black Strat' setup with a Gilmour inspired 7-Way & Overwound bridge pickup, pickguard build.

Super Easy, Solder-less Install

  • Obsidian® 7-Way // Gilmour Mod Switching
  • Obsidian® Custom Shop Overwound Bridge Pickup
  • Tonerider® Pure Vintage Neck & Middle Pickups
  • Fully Shielded 1 Ply Black Obsidian® Pickguard
  • High Quality Obsidian® Knobs & Pickup Covers (Parchment)
  • Comprehensive Wiring & Pickup Upgrade

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The Wiring

Custom 7 WAY Wiring // Gilmour Mod

This is our dedicated loaded pickguard for the Obsidian® Custom 7 Way wiring harness with '7-way' switching inspired by David Gilmour. It also features improved tone control layout, smoother tone and volume control response, and gives you two volume control 'voices' so you can get your guitar setup exactly how you like it.

The Gilmour Mod:

The sweetest bell like Strat® tone. Play your neck and bridge pickups together for the sweetest bell like tones, or even all three pickups together. The switch is built in to your tone control by use of a push/pull pot, so no extra mods are required to your guitar.

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The Pickups

ToneRider® Pure Vintage & ObsidianWire Custom Shop Overwound Bridge

Warm Gilmour Strat® Tones & Searing Leads

The Pure Vintage set from Tonerider is the perfect set for giving you those Vintage Black Strat tones that David Gilmour is famous for , along with a bridge pickup overwound in the ObsidianWire custom shop, that is perfect for those searing clean leads

Neck 5.9k / Mid 6.1k / Bridge 11.8k

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The Look

Choose your favorite pickguard and knob combo.

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Check out some of our favorite combos Here

The Install

Solderless Loaded Pickguard Install

Solderless Install

All Obsidian® loaded pickguards allow for a quick and easy solderless install using our own solderless Pro-Wired™ Electronics

Fitting

Loaded Pickguards (for Strat)

Obsidian® loaded pickguards for Stratocaster® are made to fit modern Fender Strat® bodies with 11 hole pickguards perfectly. Other bodies including Squier, import and after market type guitars may need adjustments to routing, or screw hole placement. 

  • Mounting Hole Pattern: Modern Fender 11 hole
  • Control Cavity Routing: Fits genuine Fender Stratocaster
    Other guitars may need adjustment
  • Cavity depth: Minimum 34mm (1.26”)
    7-Way wiring always require full depth cavity around tone controls
  • Pickup Cavity Routing: Check pickup compatibility before ordering. Humbucker loaded pickguards require full size humbucker routing.
  • Loaded Pickguard Install Information and Pickup Height Guide can be found here.

Control Plates (for Tele)

Obsidian® loaded control plates for Telecaster® are made to fit modern Fender Tele® bodies perfectly. Other bodies including Squier, import and after market type guitars may need adjustments to routing, or screw hole placement. 

  • Mounting Hole Spacing: 150mm from center to center
  • Control Cavity Routing: Fits genuine Fender Telecaster
    Other guitars may need adjustment
  • Cavity depth: Minimum 34mm (1.26”)
    7-Way wiring always require full depth cavity around tone controls
  • Pickups: ObsidianWire Pro-Wired Electronics are generally made for standard two wire pickups.

    For different wire types select the Custom Universal harness. the Custom 4-Way harness requires a three wire neck pickup, or a solder join to add a new wire.

Control Plates (for Jazz Bass)

Obsidian® loaded control plates for Jazz Bass® are made to fit modern Fender Jazz Bass® bodies perfectly. Other bodies including Squier, import and after market type guitars may need adjustments to routing, or screw hole placement. 

  • Control Cavity Routing: Fits genuine Fender Jazz Bass
    Other guitars may need adjustment - Minimum // width 24mm - length 128mm - depth 30mm
  • Pickups: Electronics are made for standard two wire pickups. Other pickups may require modification or soldering.

The Shipping

ObsidianWire Custom Shop Item:

This item is part of our Custom Shop range, built to order, one at a time in Christchurch New Zealand.

Build Time: 5 - 10 Business Days

We aim to build all custom shop orders within 5 - 10 business days (excludes weekends and public holiday). If we expect any delays we will let you know as soon as possible.

Shipping: Ships direct from Christchurch, New Zealand

All custom shop items ship direct from Christchurch, New Zealand. Please allow extra time for International shipping. Check for additional info on our shipping policies below

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Customer Reviews

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Clay Gravil (Cincinnati, US)
It's just ok. - But Obsidian wire is still top notch.

TL/DR - This time, Obsidian Wire didn't quite deliver. wrong guard, mixed plastics, and the bridge pickup had something wrong with it and was also microphonic. This added $85 to my overall purchase cost. I have *no* doubt in my mind that Obsidian Wire would have made this right. But it was a Saturday and I wanted to play my new guitar!

The review:
I was honestly really excited about this product. Overall it fell a little short. I love Obsidian Wire's units for my guitars. I found out about them because one of their units was installed in a Tele I picked up. I have them in 4 guitars now.

Time to receive and Communication: Excellent over all, especially coming from New Zealand!

Presentation: Meh. A bunch of packing bubble wrap, wrapped around the pickguard, tossed along with a sticker, and a little baggie that held the prewired output jack into a plain white box. No instructions. I get it, but given the cost and the hype, In my head I had envisioned something nicer based on the packaging and presentation for the other products I've gotten from Obsidian Wire.

The Obsidian Wire unit: It's great! - 5 way switching with a Schaller made CRL type switch, solderless, nice big axial cap for the tone, treble bleed switch, CTS pots, Bridge and middle on T2, neck on T1, and a push/pull for activating the neck. It's the Obsidian Wire quality we know and love.

The Pickguard: Meh. Felt thin, 3 ply (!), and was warped. Nothing a hairdryer couldn't fix. But why a 3 ply on a Pompeii?

Plastics: Meh again. No switch tip, three different colors were visible between the pickups and the knobs. Yes I checked for the tip everywhere. The DHL bag, the bubble wrap, the box, and even the floor.

Wiring: Great job here! It's hard to mess this up when it's the Obsidian Wire solderless right? Included prewired output jack was a very nice touch. These are all cloth covered wire pickups, jack had PVC coated wires. Who will see or know? Just me. Maybe they were out of cloth pre-wired ones. I had a Puretone jack waiting for this build, I'll save this one for a rainy day or a fix.

The Pickups: Man this was the part I was excited for! The good - The Tonerider Pure Vintage pickups in the neck and bridge delivered. The bridge however was harsh, thin, and nasally. No real bass response through any of my amps. After some troubleshooting and swapping of pickups, there was clearly there is something wrong with this poor guy and he was microphonic to boot! But it was Saturday and I wanted play my new guitar! I called my local GC who happened to be able to sell me an new SSL-5 and also had the fender plastics in Antique White! After 45 minutes and also $85 lighter in the wallet, I was back home and installing the SSL-5 along with now matching plastics into the guard. Put the neck back on, tuned up, and everything was right with the world!

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James Russell (Chadds Ford, US)
Amazing tone

I really love the look and sound of this!

Pro-Wired™ Pickguards & Control Plates

  • Solderless Install

    Quick & Easy install using with Obsidian® solderless wiring

  • Custom Built

    You choose the specs, and we build it for you, right here in our Custom Shop.

  • Pro-Grade

    World class components and build quality for world class tone and durability