Handmade pre-wired Strat HSH pickguard, with HB split, Treble Bleed & Tele Mode (Neodymium Ultra DT)

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HANDMADE LOADED HSH PRE-WIRED NEODYMIUM STRAT PICKGUARD WITH HB SPLIT, TREBLE BLEED AND TELECASTER MODE, HIGH OUTPUT LEVELS.

Model: HSH NEODYMIUM FULL OPTIONAL CLOSED UD

Please note: The pickups installed on this pickguard are designed and handcrafted by me (ASAR custom amplification & pickups), like the pre-wired pickguard itself.

The humbuckers are a SHB-UD (Neodymium magnets) model set, with closed covers. The middle Strat single coil is also equipped with neodymium magnets and is designed to be paired with SHB-UB humbuckers.

Pre-wired handmade pickguard on 3ply BLACK plate with WHITE covers (closed) and knobs. The plate is also available in 3ply WHITE. The covers, always of the closed type, are also available in WHITE.

CONTROLS:

 - VOLUME (B500K, Alpha), equipped with full range treble bleed;

 - TONES (both A500K with 10nF / 100V MKP capacitor). The second knob acts on the neck humbucker and the middle Strat single coils, while the third knob acts only on the bridge humbucker;

- Five-way selector;

- Push-pull switch of the second knob (tone of the neck HB and middle Strat SC): by pulling up this knob you get the exclusion of the middle Strat single coil pickup while and, at the same time, the neck humbucker and the bridge one are connected in parallel, regardless of their operating status (ie the position in which the push pull switch controlled by the third knob is held). This is the TELECASTER MODE and, once activated, it always maintains the mentioned pickup configuration, regardless of the position taken by the five-way switch.

- Third knob push-pull switch (on the bridge humbucker tone control): by pulling up the knob up, both the humbuckers works with both coils operating and connected in series.

By keeping the knob down in the two humbuckers only the NORTH coil remains working (SPLIT mode), i.e. the one facing the middle SC and the one facing the neck. For further information, please see note (**) at the end of the Ad text.

  These pickups were wound and assembled by guiding the wire by hand (AWG 44). Then they were waxed in a paraffin and beeswax bath. Later, EVERY POLE WERE INDIVIDUALLY FITTED WITH A POWERFUL NEODYMIUM MAGNETS SET.

 The middle Strat single coil is shielded with tinned copper foil. All pickups are equipped with shielded wires. The back of the pickguard is fully shielded with aluminum foil.

 The series resistances (Rs) of the pickups are the following: NECK humbucker 8.4 Kohm in SPLIT / 17.2 Kohm in FULL COIL OPERATION - MIDDLE Strat single coil 8.7 Kohm - Humbucker to the BRIDGE 9.6 Kohm SPLIT / 19.6 Kohm in FULL COIL OPERATION.

 The NORTH coil of the NECK HB and the SOUTH coil of the BRIDGE HB are RWRP compared to the other coils.

 The pickups are passive type, so they don't need any battery.

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 THIS LOADED PICKGUARD HAS BEEN PERFORMANCE TESTED.

(*) My "full range treble bleed" mod consists of three components: a capacitor, a fixed resistor and a potentiometer coaxial with the volume control potentiometer. This ensures that the tone of the guitar remains exactly the same (volume aside, of course) throughout the operating range of the volume knob, unlike what is possible with classic treble bleed circuits which are, typically, equipped only with a capacitor or with a capacitor and a fixed resistor (connected in series or parallel to the capacitor).

 (**) In other words ...

1) by pulling up only the second knob, just the two humbuckers will work, connected to each other in parallel and with both their respective coils activated (FULL COIL OPERATION), similarly to a Les Paul with the pickup selector held in position 2;

 2) by pulling up both the second and the third knob, just the two humbuckers still work connected to each other in parallel but in SPLIT OPERATION (i.e. only the NORTH coil works in each of the two pickups), similarly to what happens in a Telecaster with the pickup selector held in position 2;

 3) by pulling up only the third knob all three pickups and also the 5 way selector work, as in a normal Strat, but the two humbuckers are in split mode and, therefore, the pickup configuration will be Strat SSS (split neck HB / single coil / split bridge HB);

 4) with both knobs turned down all three pickups and also the 5 way selector work, with the two humbuckers in FULL COIL OPERATION and, therefore, we get a Strat HSH operation.

In cases 1) and 2), in addition to the middle pickup, il also excluded the operation of the 5 way selector. In fact, in these cases, even by varying all five of its positions, the configuration of the pickups always remains that described in the respective points 1) and 2).