• Custom Shop: Loaded Control Plate for Tele®
  • Custom Shop: Loaded Control Plate for Tele®
  • Custom Shop: Loaded Control Plate for Tele®
  • Custom Shop: Loaded Control Plate for Tele®
  • Custom Shop: Loaded Control Plate for Tele®
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Custom Shop: Loaded Control Plate for Tele®

$209.00
$209.00

Have us build your dream Loaded Tele control plate, complete with a set of Obsidian® Pro-Wired™ Electronics and a high quality control plate and knobs

Super Easy, Solder-less Install

  • Custom Loaded Tele Control Plate
  • Built with Obsidian® Pro-Wired™ Electronics
  • Full Brass Obsidian® Control Plate
  • Big Knurl Knobs
  • Super Easy, Solderless Install

Custom Shop: Built to Order

Fast Build Time: Ships in 2-5 Business Days

Express Shipping Available: DHL Express

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Custom Shop: Loaded Control Plate for Tele®
Custom Shop: Loaded Control Plate for Tele®
Custom Shop: Loaded Control Plate for Tele®
Custom Shop: Loaded Control Plate for Tele®
Custom Shop: Loaded Control Plate for Tele®
Custom loaded control plate for telecaster using a chrome control plate, chrome knobs and a black switch tip.

You Design It, We Build It...

Custom Shop: Loaded Control Plate for Tele®

Have us build your dream Loaded Tele control plate, complete with a set of Obsidian® Pro-Wired™ Electronics and a high quality control plate and knobs

Super Easy, Solder-less Install

  • Custom Loaded Tele Control Plate
  • Built with Obsidian® Pro-Wired™ Electronics
  • Full Brass Obsidian® Control Plate
  • Big Knurl Knobs
  • Super Easy, Solderless Install

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The Wiring

For Traditional Telecaster®:

Option 1. Vintage '3-Way' for Tele®

The Traditional setup for a double single coil Telecaster

  • The Obsidian® Take on Vintage 3-Way Wiring
  • Improved Clarity
  • Smoother Volume & Tone Control

Option 2. Custom 4-Way for Tele®

4-Way wiring for humbucker like sounds from your Telecaster
(Requires three wire pickup or mod. with solder join)

  • Custom '4-Way' Control Layout
  • Play Pickups in Humbucker Mode (Series)
  • Improved Clarity
  • Smoother Volume & Tone Control

For Humbuckers & P90s:

Option 3. Custom Universal for Tele®

The ultimate setup for playing humbuckers, P90s and single coils in your Telecaster

  • Traditional 3-Way Tele® switching
  • Built for Humbucker Loaded Telecasters
  • 4 Optimized Modes (HH, HS, SH & SS)
  • Improves clarity for humbuckers
  • Balances single coils

Option 4. Custom Universal for Tele® with Dual Split Coil

All of the Above including the Dual SC (Split Coil) upgrade
(Requires compatible four conductor pickups)

For Nashville / 3 Pickup Telecaster®:

Option 5. Custom Nashville '7-Way' for Tele®

Custom built for three pickup telecasters

  • Custom Built for three pickup Telecaster
  • '7 Way switching' Neck + Bridge Combo
  • Improved Clarity
  • Smoother Volume & Tone Control

The Pickups

Use Your Own Pickups...

The Look

Choose your favorite pickguard and knob combo.

Need inspiration?

Check out some of our favorite combos Here

The Install

Solderless Loaded Pickguard Install

Solderless Install

All Obsidian® loaded pickguards allow for a quick and easy solderless install using our own solderless Pro-Wired™ Electronics

Fitting

Loaded Pickguards (for Strat)

Obsidian® loaded pickguards for Stratocaster® are made to fit modern Fender Strat® bodies with 11 hole pickguards perfectly. Other bodies including Squier, import and after market type guitars may need adjustments to routing, or screw hole placement. 

  • Mounting Hole Pattern: Modern Fender 11 hole
  • Control Cavity Routing: Fits genuine Fender Stratocaster
    Other guitars may need adjustment
  • Cavity depth: Minimum 34mm (1.26”)
    7-Way wiring always require full depth cavity around tone controls
  • Pickup Cavity Routing: Check pickup compatibility before ordering. Humbucker loaded pickguards require full size humbucker routing.

Control Plates (for Tele)

Obsidian® loaded control plates for Telecaster® are made to fit modern Fender Tele® bodies perfectly. Other bodies including Squier, import and after market type guitars may need adjustments to routing, or screw hole placement. 

  • Mounting Hole Spacing: 150mm from center to center
  • Control Cavity Routing: Fits genuine Fender Telecaster
    Other guitars may need adjustment
  • Cavity depth: Minimum 34mm (1.26”)
    7-Way wiring always require full depth cavity around tone controls
  • Pickups: ObsidianWire Pro-Wired Electronics are generally made for standard two wire pickups.

    For different wire types select the Custom Universal harness. the Custom 4-Way harness requires a three wire neck pickup, or a solder join to add a new wire.

Control Plates (for Jazz Bass)

Obsidian® loaded control plates for Jazz Bass® are made to fit modern Fender Jazz Bass® bodies perfectly. Other bodies including Squier, import and after market type guitars may need adjustments to routing, or screw hole placement. 

  • Control Cavity Routing: Fits genuine Fender Jazz Bass
    Other guitars may need adjustment - Minimum // width 24mm - length 128mm - depth 30mm
  • Pickups: Electronics are made for standard two wire pickups. Other pickups may require modification or soldering.

The Shipping

ObsidianWire Custom Shop Item:

This item is part of our Custom Shop range, built to order, one at a time in Christchurch New Zealand.

Build Time: 5 - 10 Business Days

We aim to build all custom shop orders within 5 - 10 business days (excludes weekends and public holiday). If we expect any delays we will let you know as soon as possible.

Shipping: Ships direct from Christchurch, New Zealand

All custom shop items ship direct from Christchurch, New Zealand. Please allow extra time for International shipping. Check for additional info on our shipping policies below

Shipping Policies

Customer Reviews

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Darin A. (Carnegie, US)
Only one criticism....

First, I want to start by saying I was very impressed with how fast my order made it all the way from NZ! When the package arrived I was very impressed an pleased with how everything was packaged. I love the look and sound of the the loaded pickguard/pickups I went with and overall I am very happy with my purchase. I would definitely purchase from Obsidian Wire again in the future! My only note would be to include item specific instructions for products. I had some trouble with my install when I ended up following the wrong diagram because I'm not technically minded at all, Once I had someone smarter than me point out I was following the wrong diagram, I was able to get everything working perfectly. Product specific instructions would have been helpful in my case.

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Jeremy, Illinois USA (Heyworth, US)
Excellent Upgrade

I chose Obsidian so I could fix a Strat from my youth that’s been out of commission for 20+yrs. No one could figure out the issue, probably a fried board, so I replaced all the electronics with Obsidian just to save the trial and error headaches. It took some fitting due to my particular model, but Obsidian brought the Strat from my teen years back to life and it sounds much better than it ever did before. ...I should have done this years ago. You will not be disappointed with this upgrade. If I have any other needs like this in the future, I’m going straight to Obsidian first.

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jason hoey (Atlantic Beach, US)
First time buyer

I am extremely impressed with the product. Plug and play. I will buying again soon. Jason Hoey

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Ian Fishburn (Brisbane, AU)
Squier Upgrade

Easy install into my old Squier Strat. I will have to get another one for my American Strat now I've heard how good this sounds.

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Jason L. (Berkeley Heights, US)
Only solderless if soldering was already done.

The quality of the pickups, pots, wiring and pickguard/knobs are all wonderful.

I ran into two things which caused me a bit of a headache.

First, this is designed and marketed as a swap in replacement, not to be put into a new guitar build. As that is what I was doing, the ground wire was not present so I still had to go buy wire to use for a ground and a soldering iron. After buying this specifically so I wouldn’t need to do that, feels like a bit of false advertising that wasn’t clear when I was buying.

Second, much less annoying but still something that caused my install to take days instead of minutes, was that the kit does not come with pickguard screws. Not an issue when you’re replacing an existing setup, but does not help for a new build.

Hi Jason - thanks for the feedback on this! Really appreciate it. We have made some changes to the product page to make it clearer for future.
Cheers,
Caitlin

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Pro-Wired™ Pickguards & Control Plates

  • Solderless Install

    Quick & Easy install using with Obsidian® solderless wiring

  • Custom Built

    You choose the specs, and we build it for you, right here in our Custom Shop.

  • Pro-Grade

    World class components and build quality for world class tone and durability