ObsidianWire Custom 4-Way for Tele® Solder-Less Wiring Harness

The buttons need to be pushed all the way down, and I was suffering an attack of arthritis in my left thumb joint when I installed the harness. So it took about the same time as soldering would’ve, for me, this time. Still, the ease of installation is well worth the price, and next time I want to swap pickups, it’ll be much easier. If you’re a weekend tone chaser like me, setup and takedown of your soldering equipment almost isn’t worth the trouble, and if you have any dislike for the fumes, Obsidian Wire makes a Telecaster even easier to modify. I did have to use a rounded wood file for two minor adjustments to the harness cavity lip, to allow clearance for the potentiometers. As it’s under the control plate, cosmetically that’s a nothing burger. It’s a nonFender body, so that’s to be expected. The tone? There’s a volume jump on the series position (also to be expected) and do I detect an out of phaseness in positions 2 and 4 or is that just the nature of the cap? Did I get some wires switched? Whichever, I’m well pleased with it, and it will be mighty easy to tinker with in the future.

Here are my issues. This is not the fault of the shop or the product necessarily but the product sat in a usps distribution center for nearly a whole week due to being shipped first class. It is a heart 100 dollar product and I feel it shouldn’t be arriving more than a day late. Issue #2 if you have a Mexican tele and are using stock pickups check lead lengths before snipping away, I had to solder extensions onto the existing leads for this to work at all. I plan on replacing the neck pickup in about 2 months so not a huge deal, but this is an issue with using a soldered solution. Overall it works as intended but this was my very mixed experience with this item.

I love the solderless requirements. It was used on my Fender stratocaster.

Sounded great and installed easy.

I purchased this wiring harness to make installing lambert one pickups into my American deluxe telecaster easier. I am not good at soldering, so I was looking at alternatives. The installation was very simple and the directions were easy to follow. Another selling point is if I ever sell my telecaster, I can take the expensive pickups out and put the stock pickups back in without any soldering. I highly recommend.

I am very happy with this Custom 4-way control. I bought a Fender TwistedTele pick up and the installation was quick and straightforward. The reason I got the Fender Twisted Tele pick up was because i wanted to avoid any soldering as I don’t have any experience with it. All in all I am pleased with the choices I made!:)

The pots rotate way too easy.so much so that they tend change settings on their own. The tone pot feels gritty.The photos show CTS pots

Install was pretty straight forward. Took a little work to get the wires fully seated in the quick disconnect holes. I personally needed to grind away a notch in the pickup selector switch in order to get the selector to work correctly. The slot in my usa tele didnt allow for full travel of the selector. Easy 2 minute fix. Tone-wise, the new position is good. Clean is where i hear the biggest difference. The new position has about 25-30 percent more output, and is brighter than the neck alone, but fuller than both pickups in parallel.

used as part of a pot and pup upgrade for a Squier Tele. the moment you open it the quality is obvious. fit easily in the hole but needed to alter the screwholes in the pickguard so I just opted to get a new one to fit a standard fender and fit perfectly. what a great wire connection system. (note this also includes a new input so make sure you either can get the nut off your old one or buy a new plate-- I had to) I didn't know (missed it when I bought it) about the 4 way switch and was a little mystified "why?" and once I read up on it, well that got my attention....... and when I USE it (put in fender Tex-Mex pups) oh my goodness. the sound on that 4th setting. a whole new dimension to the guitar. buy with confidence.. and excitement. a great product

Awesome product, will be putting these (various models) into a few of my instruments. Great product and comes as advertised. Installs in minutes if you know what you are doing.

Easy to install and great sound option in the 4th position.