ObsidianWire Vintage MKII for Les Paul® (Selectable 50s & 60s) Solder-less Wiring Harness VINTAGE MKII

I bought this after seeing it in a discussion group. I'm getting older and not having to solder was great. The PCB fit perfectly into my 2015 Epiphone Les Paul Standard Gold Top. I had already enlarged the control openings for CTS ones I had installed, so it slid in perfectly with plenty of room for the switch and pickup wires.Connecting the pickups, switch and jack was simple and straight forward. i was concerned about the pickup wire sizes but I had no issues using the small gauge wires of my bridge pickups with the connector block. All wires slid in and locked when I released the button.I have a 2 wire HB in the neck and a 4 wire in the bridge. I couldn't feed the braided push back through the ground terminal like they show in the install docs. I ended up pulling off and twisting the braid end and slipped that into the ground terminal. I used the other for the ground from the bridge pickup and the bridge ground wire, odd that there isn't a terminal for that, because I purchased the non-split version.The different wiring is great. Works perfectly and provides the flexibility of having 4 combinations. The 60's setting with the treble bleed was perfect and at low volumes retained the highs.One wish would be for a switch for wiring that would allow 'decoupling' the neck and bridge pickups from each other.All in all this is a really great product and my guitar sounds sweet as ever.Cheers!

Great sound easy to install minimal mods required to install on epiphone les paul standard pro changed the whole sound..easily sounds like a guitar that cost 3x what it is

Incredible kit. Own others as well. Pleased use a sealed bottom quality potentiometer from Bourns or CTS. The Alphas breakaway even with the proper knobs and tools, and it's a real pain in the neck to put them back together soldered in to the board. Otherwise awesome. Love you guys.Edit- noticed they are CTS pots.. please sealed bottom 🙂

I bought this thinking it would be nice to avoid soldering. It has caused me 2 days of headaches. I contacted Obsidian by email but they are no help at all. I bought this in December to make sure the cavity was large enough and proceeded with the build. After 1 month of waiting for the finish to totally cure, I installed this just to find it doesn’t work. I can’t return it because it is out of the return limit. I’ll not buy from this company ever again. I could have soldered the connections in a couple hours, which is what I’ll do now.I have used EMG products before and that is a much better way to go than this.

It was suggested that this wouldn't work with an import les Paul. With a little bit of modification it works great in this Harley Benton. It took an average guitar and turned it into something special.

drop in and go! I did need to slightly elongate the holes on one side to get this to fit happily but was minor and the washers cover up my dirty work. the time from start to finish was far less than if I had to break out a soldering iron. and I feel more confident about the contacts. Comes with a qtr inch port and a selector switch.

Dropped right into a 1986 Gibson Les Paul Custom. No adjustment needed with the exception of an additional nut to balance the height of the bridge volume shaft. Wiring was easy. The whole project took about 20 minutes. Would buy again.

Does not work well with older style single conductor pickups. The older cotton braid is way to big to fit into the lugs as shown. I got it to work by untwisting braid on one pickup and soldering the other to it the feeding a bit through the lug. That said once I got it connected its a nice product.

Très facile à installer et sans soudure , j utilise la connexion 60’s au manche et 50 au pont. Très bonne qualité de matériaux