David Gilmour 7-Way Strat Wiring

An intuitive way of expanding your guitar’s tones from 5 tones to 7 using stock singlecoils! You can now get the Neck and Bridge pickups on at the same time as well as hearing all three pickups at once!

Using top grade electronic components found in high end guitars, our Gilmour Strat® wiring harness uses expertly soldered vintage cloth wire to boot guaranteeing the best true-tone of your pickups

Gilmour Strat® wiring harness consists of:

• 2 or 3 x  CTS USA pots
• Prewired Switchcraft® USA 1/4” jack socket
• 5 way pickup selector switch
• Gilmour Mode switch
• Your choice of polypropylene audiophile grade Tone Capacitor value
• Strat wiring diagram to connect your pickups and jack/ground
• Solderless installation option
• Choice of Gilmour Mode Switch type**

We offer some tweakable options for you as well as a no-solder-installation version! Or select “stock” for the true classic circuit

Choosing a Custom Tone Capacitor           Choosing Custom Pots

Functions

• Volume
• Tone (Neck Pickup)
• Tone (Middle + Bridge Pickup*)
• 5 Way Pickup switch:
  • Neck
  • Neck and Middle
  • Middle
  • Middle and Bridge
  • Bridge
• Alternate mode Switch make the 5 way switch operate like this:
  • Neck + Bridge
  • Neck + Middle + Bridge
  • Middle
  • Neck + Middle + Bridge
  • Neck + Bridge

CTS USA Pots

Featuring Vintage spec CTS pots, our prewired Strat kit is the ultimate upgrade to stock electronics in any guitar. Our pots have a classic audio taper designed to give a smooth roll off without suddenly jumping in volume

Vintage Cloth Wire

Only the best #22AWG Gavitt wire is used in our circuits for true vintage tone and look

*Bridge Pickup Tone Control Option

Want to tame your bridge pickup? Our Strat harness comes with the bridge pickup connected to the last tone control. If you’d rather avoid this, please let us know 🙂

**Choice of Gilmour Mode Switch Type

You can have the alternate Gilmour Mode activated via a Mini Toggle switch, a Push/Pull pot or a Push/Push pot on the last tone control

Choice of Tone capacitor

You can tune the way your circuit sounds by tweaking the tone capacitor. Here’s a helpful guide to choosing capacitors

Choice of Pot Resistance

Customise your circuit, are humbuckers or singlecoils going to be used here? You can choose the resistance value of the pots we’ll use to make your harness. Helpful guide on choosing pot values

Installation

Simply screw in the prewired Gilmour Strat® kit into your pickguard and reconnect your pickups, the jack socket and the ground running from the bridge or tremolo claw. Follow our easy to understand wiring diagram provided. This kit comes with a prewired jack socket and just needs attaching to the volume control.

Solderless Installation Option

When a Solderless version is bought, you have a super easy job as you only need to screw in the connections – no soldering iron required! Follow our easy to understand wiring diagram provided. This kit comes with a prewired jack socket and just needs attaching to the volume control.

Right or Left Handed

Select whether you wish to have your wiring made right or left handed, lefties turn fully anticlockwise for full volume. We’ll use top quality C Curve CTS pots so that the volume and tones turn down evenly and smoothly

Will this fit my guitar?

This Gilmour Stratocaster® wiring harness will fit any Strat style guitar. You may be required to drill the holes on your pickguard to 10mm diameter to accommodate the larger USA CTS pots. The pot body is 24mm

If installing into an imported model or Strat® copy, you may need new control knobs and switch tip to fit the US made CTS pots and Pickup Switch.

Need a loaded pickguard ? We can load in this wiring into your Custom Pickguard order no stress!

Why Choose Tiny Tone?

The wiring put together by Jack is none other than expert. He’s been repairing guitars as the owner of Jack’s Instrument Services, Guitar repair workshop in Manchester since 2009; modifying, restoring and upgrading all types of guitars and basses. The wiring you see for sale here is a result of years of expertise, technique, road testing and refinement. Each pickguard, pedal and wiring solution is grounded in what works in the real world using parts and skills that we proudly stand behind!