Bloodstone Guitar Works
Derbyshire, UK
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Bloodstone Guitar Works specialise in custom building a guitar to your specification, one that you can have the ultimate confidence in its feel, tone and playability and truly cherish.

 We also produce our own range of Handwound pickups and Handwired wiring looms and undertake upgrades, repairs and setups



Fender USA 9-way Strat Wiring Loom
Adds: series/parallel, neck+bridge and all 3 pickups together

These wiring looms are Individually hand-wired from UK-sourced genuine parts using 22 gauge Gavitt vintage cloth covered wire. A drop in replacement and a great performance and reliability upgrade for all Strats. Top quality matched components are used throughout and the "float wire" method is adopted where all wires are pulled tight and elevated so they make no contact with the control /baseplate. It takes a little longer to build but is definitely worth the effort to maximise performance

The upwards flick of a switch in position 2 turns the mid and bridge pickups into a humbucker by putting them in series. This means your standard 6K to 7K Strat single coils turn into an 12K to 14K high gain humbucker giving you a real kick in volume and fattening out the sound when required. A downwards flick of the switch in position 1 and 2 gives neck and bridge together and all 3 pickups together respectively giving that unique range of Gilmour and May tones and a flavour of Telecaster-esque tones

Incorporates:

  • Matched*  CTS USA Custom Audio Taper 250K Split Shaft Volume & Tone Potentiometers - smooth linear volume and tone change (no bunching or on/off effect)
  • 0.022uF Sprague "Orange Drop" Tone Capacitor** - removes the thinness and harshness inherent with budget capacitors
  • Oak Grigsby switches
  • Treble bleed volume mod (AKA Hendrix mod) prevents the loss of tone when reducing the volume 
  • Quality Jack Socket
  • Bridge earth wire supplied with heatshrink tube to twist join with exiting earth, solder and insulate
  • Easy to follow colour coded wiring diagram

Fully soldered together and includes all nuts screws and washers ready to fit to your guitar. Fitting requires only basic skills and 4 solder connections which are pre-tinned: Solder the black (Negative) pickup wires to the back of the Volume pot and the white (positive) wires to the colour coded switch terminals

Left hand version available at no additional cost

*      Matched in-house to within 10 Ohms  (CTS pots tolerance is +/- 20% so a 250K pot can vary from 200-300 Ohms)

**     Now using the 715p version which is sonically superior to the commonly used 225p

  

More details, Left handed versions, more guitars and custom builds available at: www.bloodstoneguitarworks.com