• MKII for Les Paul® (Vintage 50s & Modern 60s Wiring)
  • MKII for Les Paul® (Vintage 50s & Modern 60s Wiring)
  • ObsidianWire Les Paul Wiring Harness - Solderless Install (Vintage MKII) Dual Split Coil
  • MKII for Les Paul® (Vintage 50s & Modern 60s Wiring)
  • ObsidianWire Pro-Wired Les Paul Switch
  • MKII for Les Paul® (Vintage 50s & Modern 60s Wiring)
    MKII for Les Paul® (Vintage 50s & Modern 60s Wiring)
  • MKII for Les Paul® (Vintage 50s & Modern 60s Wiring)
    MKII for Les Paul® (Vintage 50s & Modern 60s Wiring)
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ObsidianWire®

LP Vintage MKII

MKII for Les Paul® (Vintage 50s & Modern 60s Wiring)

Available Exclusively at Solo Guitars Canada

Solo Guitars - ObsidianWire Dealer Canada

Super Easy, Solder-less Install
Key Features:

  • Selectable 'Vintage 50's' / '60's Plus' Wiring
  • Smoother Volume & Tone Control
  • Dual 'Split Coil' Upgrade Option
  • Includes Pro-Wired™ Switch & Jack
  • Fits Gibson® LP®
  • Fits Most Epiphone® LP® with adjustments

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MKII for Les Paul® (Vintage 50s & Modern 60s Wiring)
MKII for Les Paul® (Vintage 50s & Modern 60s Wiring)
ObsidianWire Les Paul Wiring Harness - Solderless Install (Vintage MKII) Dual Split Coil
MKII for Les Paul® (Vintage 50s & Modern 60s Wiring)
ObsidianWire Pro-Wired Les Paul Switch
MKII for Les Paul® (Vintage 50s & Modern 60s Wiring) MKII for Les Paul® (Vintage 50s & Modern 60s Wiring)

A Complete Wiring Upgrade - for Les Paul®

The MKII for Les Paul® (Vintage 50s & Modern 60s Wiring)

  • Selectable 'Vintage 50's' / '60's Plus' Wiring
  • Smoother Volume & Tone Control
  • Dual 'Split Coil' Upgrade Option
  • Includes Pro-Wired™ Switch & Jack
  • Fits Gibson® LP®
  • Fits Most Epiphone® LP® with adjustments

Details

Description

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Super Easy, Solder-less Install
All Obsidian® Pro-Wired™ Electronics are super easy to install, and allow for solder-less pickup changes with Obsidian® Plug, Play & Enjoy connectors. 

 

"New for 2023 

Add the 'Dual 'Split Coil' Upgrade Option' - add a push/pull coil tap switch to each volume control. *Requires Compatible Split Coil (Four Conductor) Pickups"

The ObsidianWire™ Les Paul® Wiring Harness

The Obsidian® Vintage MKII for Les Paul® is a comprehensive upgrade over stock wiring, that also combines 'Vintage 50's' and '60's Plus' wiring in one product. You can choose between the vintage roll back of the traditional 'Vintage 50's' harness, and superior clarity of the more modern '60's Plus' wiring with the flick of the switch. 

You get a switch for each pickup, so if you want to run a 'Vintage 50's' setup on the neck pickup, and an Obsidian® '60's Plus' setup for the bridge pickup, YOU CAN.

We also give you the option to upgrade to 'DUAL SC (COIL SPLIT)' for even more versatility

'VINTAGE 50'S' MODE

Allow for some treble roll off when you roll back your volume control for an easy bridge between perfect warm cleans and searing leads.

The 'Vintage 50's' wiring mod is a super popular Les Paul wiring upgrade that reverts your stock LP wiring back to the glory days, and the beginning of the Vintage Les Paul. This is our most popular and personal favorite Les Paul wiring.

'60'S PLUS' MODE

Prevent treble loss when you roll back the volume for greater clarity and cut through at reduced volume levels.

The Obsidian® '60's Plus' wiring is made for clarity and cut through with an improved circuit that will help you retain treble at all volume levels.  

For a full run down on different Les Paul wiring types, check out our full guide - Click Here

DUAL SC (COIL SPLIT)

Turn your humbuckers in to single coils, and back again
To add true versatility to your guitar we build in Obsidian® Dual SC, allowing you to split each of your humbuckers in to singlecoils for lower output, more dynamic tones.

Obsidian® Dual SC is built in to your volume controls using push/pull pots, so no extra mods are required to your guitar.
- Requires split coil compatible humbuckers

BOTH SWITCHES DOWN

  • 1: Bridge Humbucker
  • 2: Bridge Humbucker + Neck Humbucker
  • 3: Neck Humbucker

BOTH SWITCHES UP

  • 1: Bridge Single Coil
  • 2: Bridge Single Coil + Neck Single Coil
  • 3: Neck Single Coil

NECK VOL. UP - BRIDGE VOL. DOWN

  • 1: Bridge Humbucker
  • 2: Bridge Humbucker + Neck Single Coil
  • 3: Neck Single Coil

NECK VOL. DOWN + BRIDGE VOL. UP

  • 1: Bridge Single Coil
  • 2: Bridge Single Coil + Neck Humbucker
  • 3: Neck Humbucker


Specs

BUILT IN HOUSE WITH

  • Potentiometers: Obsidian® Custom CTS® 500k Pots (+/-10%) Split Shaft / 24 Spline
  • Capacitors: (150 Series Polyester Film 0.022uf) (+/-5%)
  • Switch: Obsidian® Select Pro-Wired Toggle Switch
  • Jack: Pro-Wired Switchcraft® J11 Mono // OR Pure Tone® Mono Multi-Contact 1/4 in

Compatibility

MADE TO FIT

  • Gibson® Les Paul®
  • MOST Epiphone® Les Paul® (Requires new knobs and wider holes as below)

  • Always Check: Layout Guide
  • Hole Size: 3/8" (9.5mm) mounting holes
  • Knobs: Use Only US spec 24 spline knobs (Do NOT use metric / 'Import' style knobs
  • Pickups: Works with Humbuckers and P90s // with modern or vintage braided wires.
  • Coil Splitting: Requires Compatible four conductor pickups

DOES NOT FIT

  • Does NOT fit: Lefty, three pickup Les Paul®, or any other guitar or Les Paul® Copy.

Install

For install help and other resources please go to our Info Hub.

Shipping

US Based Fulfillment:

We ship from Michigan, USA.

Please note that due to the way in-state taxes are collected, we cannot ship website orders within Michigan state. If you are based in Michigan, please order through our Amazon store here as this is set up to collect the required sales taxes. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Canada

Shipping method: Business days: Price (US$ Aprox.)
ECONOMY POST 7 - 21 8.99
DHL PACKET 5 - 10 13.99

 

Taxes and duties

Obsidian® DOES NOT pay duties, taxes or customs clearance charges.

Duties and taxes charged by your local customs agency, will be your own responsibility.

If you live outside the USA, we recommend checking with your own country's customs agency what these may be prior to ordering. 

If you are concerned, consider ordering from dealer near you 

International Dealers

  • Solderless Install

    Super easy to install, and allow for solder-less pickup changes with Obsidian® Plug, Play & Enjoy connectors.

  • Pro-Grade Quality

    The absolute best guitar wiring upgrades, using custom specified parts and perfected techniques to ensure that your harness will be an upgrade for you and your guitar. Every time.

  • Greater Functionality

    Guitar electronics that will deliver a greater range of sounds from your pickups, with more switching options, and more dynamic setups to suit your guitar.

  • Improved Sound

    Guitar wiring that allows the full dynamic range of your pickups, and just as importantly, help find a harness that is matched to you.

Customer Reviews

Based on 107 reviews
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Sam (Los Angeles, US)
Install Time: 30 - 60 minutes
Build Quality:
Very bad
Excellent
Functionality:
Same as stock
Greater range of sounds
Sound:
Terrible
Amazing
MKII for LP

Performs as advertised! I love it.
Had to do a little carving inside the pot cavity but that was the only thing that kept it from being a "drop -in" install. Great product. I'll be back for more.
Thanks OW

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Rick Halisheff (Lake Country, CA)
Install Time: 20 - 30 minutes
Build Quality:
Very bad
Excellent
Functionality:
Same as stock
Greater range of sounds
Sound:
Terrible
Amazing
Excellent product!

I installed this Obsidian Wire MK II system into my Les Paul Traditional this week and the difference was stunning. For the first time in 5 years of owning it, I could actually play it at a gig and did so both nights this weekend. Before, it was dark, muddy and sounded like the speaker was covered with a towel. I lowered the pups, screwed the pole pieces in and out trying to get more highs out of it and even eq'd the hell out of it which only managed to suck up some tone. Now, you can hear more brightness in tone and it has vintage 50s and 60s wiring, changeable with the flick of a switch. Rolling off the volume in the 60s setting help retain some of the highs and the 50s setting allows for some roll off. This is a full weighted LP and it's a totally different beast than my strat so I wanted to get a good feel for it. It will take some time as the radius, neck width and overall feel is like driving a Cadillac compared to roadster that is my Nash strat but boy, humbuckers sure get some grease out of them! It was like having new guitar day after 5 years of waiting. The guitar is named after my late mother in law, Jopie, and like her she radiates.

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morgan frisk (Honolulu, US)
Install Time: 20 - 30 minutes
Build Quality:
Very bad
Excellent
Functionality:
Same as stock
Greater range of sounds
Sound:
Terrible
Amazing
awesome kit

made wiring up my les paul so easy and fast, thank you! will def order from obsidian again

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Jeff D (Needham, US)
Install Time: 11 - 20 minutes
Build Quality:
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Excellent
Functionality:
Same as stock
Greater range of sounds
Sound:
Terrible
Amazing
Easy upgrade

I put this is my Les Paul Tribute and couldn’t be happier. Wider tone control range, more effective volume control so clean to dirty sound tweaks are easier. It only took about 15 minutes to install and worked perfectly 1st try. I tried one of the other solderless systems before and it was difficult to install with tiny screws and never did work right. Obsidian is definitely the way to go - Highly Recommend!

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Carl Tiller (Portland, US)
Install Time: 20 - 30 minutes
Build Quality:
Very bad
Excellent
Functionality:
Same as stock
Greater range of sounds
Sound:
Terrible
Amazing
Easy installation and completely cleaned up neck pickup.

This kit is amazing. I replaced a PCB that came in a Les Paul this went in easily and it really transformed the 57 classic in the neck. It was muddy before and now it’s clear and wonderful.

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