Description
Hoagland Custom, located in sunny Fernandina Beach, Florida, has specialized in custom guitar wiring and pickup making for over 25 years…
& we love what we do!
This is a Stratocaster wiring solution built with high quality parts and crafted by hand. This wiring harness will give you great service for years! We only use the highest quality parts for our wiring harnesses.
This SRV Stratocaster wiring harness is modeled after the Fender® Custom Shop “Stevie Ray Vaughan” model guitar.
According to what we’ve been able to find, his choice of pickup values are as follows:
- Neck & middle – custom wound to 6.6k (which is about a 10% overwind)
- Bridge – custom wound to 12.9k (which is about a 215% overwind!)
We custom wind pickups as well so, if you are really looking to get close to the SRV tone (and who isn’t?), a set of SRV pups wound to spec will help!
Will buying and installing this wiring harness make you play like SRV? Of course not. Will you be able to get the same tone out of your Strat that he gets? Not without his fingers on your hands. Will it make your guitar sound better than it does today? Absolutely.
HARDWARE: (incl. dress nuts & washers, & switch mounting screws)
- chrome (standard)
- black, $10 upgrade (dress washers/nuts, screws)
- gold, $10 upgrade (dress washers/nuts, screws)
- “Pure Tone” premium mono output jack, $6 upgrade
AVAILABLE CAPACITOR UPGRADES:
- Sprague “Orange Drop” poly capacitor, as standard & no additional cost
- MojoTone Dijon Premium Foil/Film capacitor, $3 upgrade (From the manufacturer: “Mojotone Dijon capacitors are high quality foil/film capacitors made to our exact specification. We like to call them musical capacitors because of their good tone and transparency.”)
- Mallory “Mustard” capacitor, $4 upgrade
- Centralab “White” mylar-in-oil capacitor, $13 upgrade
- Vitamin T “Silver Barrel” paper-in-oil capacitor, $14 upgrade
SWITCHING POSITIONS:
- P1 – bridge only (no tone control – raw pickup tone)
- P2 – middle & bridge (lower tone control)
- P3 – middle only (lower tone control)
- P4 – neck & middle (independent tone control)
- P5 – neck only (upper tone control)
STANDARD INCLUDES:
- CTS or Bourns Pro Series volume control, 250k value, audio taper
- CTS or Bourns Pro Series tone controls (2), 250k value, linear taper
- Sprague “Orange Drop” poly capacitor, .022mfd value
- 5-way lever style switch
- Switchcraft mono output jack
- Gavitt vintage style, cloth covered wire
- easy to follow wiring diagram
- tech support phone & email
While all of our wiring solutions are built to be installed rather easily, we always recommend that you have a guitar professional at your local guitar shop install it for you. There are a lot of variables (pickup brands & types, shielding, grounding, etc.) and your local guitar tech is well equipped to solve any installation problems you might have and get your guitar sounding it’s best!
