ToneShaper Guitar Wiring Kit, For Fender Stratocaster, SSS2 (Modern Wiring)

Really great product. Instructions are clear, everything you need is in the package, and it works perfectly. My Strat’s sounding better than it ever has

Great price, great quality and great customer service! It arrived way sooner than expected! I've had it installed in my stratocaster and I love the sound this circuit produces along with the guitar single coil pickups. If you are hesitant, just do it, you won't regret it.

Purchased this kit for a Hendrix inspired build. This is my first time building a strat and assembling the electronics, so I was a bit nervous at first. Turned out that the installation was quite straightforward with the included wiring diagram (also did couple googling to figure out grounding). Couple things to notice:1. The diagram doesn’t show wires connecting all 3 pots for grounding, because generally the conductive film on pickguard serves the same. The instruction does call this out with small font so just be aware.2. Not sure if it was because the output jack was sticking out too far or something, but I accidentally grounded the jack since it was touching the conductive tape I installed inside the output jack cavity. Had to lay another layer of electrical tape in the cavity to fix it, so do check if this is the case if there’s no sound coming out after wiring everything up.3. I applied some gorilla wood glue at end of cotton wires to achieve a clean look and avoid fraying. Learned this trick online and it worked like a charm!

I used this kit to gut and upgrade a Squier Standard Stratocaster with some new pickups. Everything in the kit was top quality and the diagram was more than sufficient for standard wiring.The inclusion of both regular insulated wire and push-back cloth insulated wire had me trying the cloth insulation for the first time ever. It was awesome. Very easy to deal with and I didn't have to worry about melting/overheating the plastic insulation.There was no diagram for the treble bleed. They should include this on the diagram as an optional bit. I didn't want to use it, but I googled and was able to find out how to hook it up just in case pretty easily.Installation notes:1. The squier standard has a full 1 3/4" body thickness so the 5-way switch depth wasn't an issue.2. I also purchased a separate kit to replace the plastic bits like the 5-way switch knob and tone/volume knobs because I figured the old bits wouldn't fit the new beefier hardware.3. Potentiometer shafts are bigger than the old ones. I just used a 3/8" drill bit to enlarge the existing holes in my pickguard and they fit perfectly.4. The 5-way switch has non-countersunk screws (This is probably standard for the better switches). If there are countersunk screws in your existing switch/pickguard - just use those. They should fit without issue.

After reading through most of the reviews on the ToneShaper Guitar Wiring Kit, For Fender Stratocaster, and SSS2 (Modern Wiring) I was excited to install this kit along with new SSS pick-ups in my Strat. The kit had all the correct parts and appeared to be in perfect order. I tested the 250k CTS pots and found the values to be 246k, 247k and 239k values which was excellent in my opinion. I decided to install the 239k as volume and the other two as tone pots.Reading that a few people had received defective 5 way switches did catch my eye, however there were only a few to mention this in the reviews, so I didn't bother to test the 5 way switch because after all the switch does is select the coils and would have a 0.0 ohm resistance value. I did click through the five positions and it felt very smooth and moved to all positions as I would have expected.After carefully installing the components and prior to installing in the Strat I decided to tap test the coils and do a rough function test, making sure the Volume and Tone pots all played nice and responded to changes in positions will tapping on the neck, middle and bridge pick-ups.Starting all the way forward in the #5 Neck position and all is well. Moving to the #4 position Neck and Middle nothing. Moving to the #3 position Middle coil and its dead too, no output. #2 position Middle & Bridge works. And the #1 Bridge position works but is outputting the Middle and Bridge as it had in the #2 position. Houston, we have a problem!First thing I do is quickly check the schematic and insure I had properly wired this kit. I had! Next pull out the Fluke DMM and start to ring out the connections. It confirmed exactly what my ears had told me during the tap test.Moving the selector out of the detents and slowly moving towards the next position produced a working circuit. I study the construction of the switch for about five minutes and realized the wiper tab of each contact pivots on a very tiny rivet between the wipers, and solder tab.Taking a tiny thin pair of needle nose pliers I was able to realign all the contacts to works as they were intended, and now this switch works as designed.This doesn’t seem to be a major issue as most people will have switches that are perfect, however if you get one like I had, about 10 minutes and a tiny pair of needle nose will get you back in shape.I took off one star for the 5 way switch, which is not a big issue for me and when properly aligned will work great. Every once in a while Quality Control might miss one.