David Gilmour Wiring Diagram
Our s7w gilmour style 7 way wiring harness brings the tone control that david gilmour has used in his famous black strat.
David gilmour wiring diagram. Photos of the various incarnations of david gilmour s black strat. Dec 16 in this post i will show you a wiring diagram of the neck pickup switch. 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.
This stratocaster wiring harness is modeled after the fender custom shop david gilmour of pink floyd model guitar. 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. First here is a bit of history about the black strat. We only use the highest quality parts for our wiring harnesses.
My guitar has a fender custom shop super switch with like 20 lugs on it. Known as the 7 way strat wiring setup it was famously used by david gilmour to give an extra dynamic to his strat. This is a stratocaster wiring solution built with high quality parts and crafted by hand. Contents of the dave gilmour wiring harness kit.
It s easy to do. David gilmour has a mod switch on his black strat for neck on bridge on. The neck and bridge on setting is very similar to a telecaster s middle position which is something a strat won t. 7 way strat wiring diagram using a volume cts push pull pot.
And you can modify your strat to get the same tones. Hi i hope someone out there in the the guitar world can help me. 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. The mini toggle adds two extra switch positions on top of the classic 5 positions bridge neck and bridge middle neck.
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. How much of the pink floyd guitarist s go to instrument is still original. This is something uncommon what david gilmour has got in his signature stratocaster guitar black strat. 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.
This wiring harness will give you great service for years. The same result is achievable by using a mini spdt toggle switch aka the gilmour strat mod.