Rene Martinez Quiet Coil Texas Strat Limited Edition Prewired Pickguard
All of our pickups and wiring harnesses are proudly built in Burgaw, NC!
Everything is bigger in Texas, from hats to belt buckles to cattle, and even guitar tone has a little bit more magnitude coming from the Lone Star state. Over the past decade, Mojotone has been honored to partner with legendary Texas guitar tech Rene Martinez in producing his signature Texas Strat® pickups, and now we have his blessing to take our shared pride and joy to the next level.
Introducing our Rene Martinez Quiet Coil Texas Strat® Pre-Wired Pickguard, combining our unrivaled Quiet Coil technology with Rene’s impeccable ear and demanding specifications. Here is that flood of Texas sound that you have been looking for, to get the house rockin' without any frustrating 60-cycle hum.
Mojotone Rene Martinez Quiet Coil Texas Strat® prewired solderless pickguards are completely prewired to perfection with no soldering required. Just drop in and play. Our exclusive 7% tolerance CTS pots, Switchcraft jack, Mojotone Dijon capacitor, and CRL 5-way switch compliment what we believe to be the best sounding, most touch-sensitive hum-canceling Strat pickups ever made. Carefully balanced in output from neck to middle to bridge, and completely hum-canceling in ALL positions!
**If you have any questions about the Strat Quiet Coil™ Pickups, please check out our Mojotone Quiet Coil Strat Pickups FAQ.
Our approach was very simple, to make a hum-cancelling Strat pickup that looks and sounds like a real single coil with minimal parts and adhering to actual vintage single coil attributes.
No batteries, stacked coils, or anything else associated with other hum-canceling pickups were used in our design. The result is simply the most pure and authentic Strat tone possible, with absolutely no loss of true single coil tone. They are sonically clear and warm, with every bit of single coil sparkle and chime, just like our original Texas Strat® pickups.
NOTE: With all Mojotone Quiet Coil™ pickups, you never have to worry about string spacing and radius issues, or the magnets pulling the strings out of tune, and you can bend the strings heavily without ever losing focus or sustain. All of this while achieving perfect single coil Strat tone and absolutely no hum!
Quiet Coil Design Features...
- Consistent scatterwound coils for that handwound tone, sensitivity, and clarity.
- Vintage formulated Alnico magnet cores with lower Gauss levels like an aged vintage strat pickup.
- Vintage cloth covered leads for easy push-back soldering.
- Matched resonant peak frequency, inductance, and resistance of our Rene Martinez Texas Strat pickups.
- Vintage staggered polepieces for a traditional strat pickup look.
- No routing modifications are required to fit shallow vintage routs like the taller stacked hum-cancelling designs.
- Less than 10 parts are used to build the Quiet Coils. Like a vintage strat pickup, they are SIMPLE!
Middle (RWRP): 6.2k
Magnet: Alnico 5
- Output:
- Bass:
- Mids:
- Treble:
Magnet: Alnico 5
- Output:
- Bass:
- Mids:
- Treble:
Features:
- Screw down solderless wire connection for easy/reliable installation and quick pickup swaps!
- Vintage quality USA branded components (Switchcraft, Mojotone, CRL, and CTS)!
- USA made CRL Switch! It's the most reliable and smoothest feeling switch ever made and hasn't changed since the 50's.
- Smooth custom taper made to Mojotone specifications, our CTS industrial potentiometers come with solid brass bushings and the tightest tolerances available.
- Pre-wired Switchcraft mono jack with pre-tinned push-back cloth covered wire.
- Transparent and musical Mojotone Dijon Capacitor designed specifically for guitar and bass tone controls.
- Switchable between our most popular Blender or Standard mod wiring.
- Optional volume mod (on/off switch) for retaining high end detail while rolling the volume back.
- Easily serviceable for any future component swaps or maintenance.
- Screwdriver included.
Blender Control Functions: Unlike standard wiring, Blender wiring adds the option for all 3 pickups to be on at once and the ability to combine the neck and bridge pickups as much as you want.
Master Volume: Top Knob
Master Tone: Middle Knob
Blender Control: Bottom Knob
Blender knob on 10
Position 1: Bridge
Position 2: Bridge and Middle
Position 3: Middle
Position 4: Middle and Neck
Position 5: Neck
Blender knob on 0
Position 1: Bridge (with Neck blended in)
Position 2: Bridge and Middle (with Neck blended in)
Position 3: Middle
Position 4: Middle and Neck (with Bridge blended in)
Position 5: Neck (with Bridge blended in)
Standard Mod Control Functions: Standard strat wiring with no tone control for the middle pickup only. This reduces the load on positions 2 and 4 to only one tone pot, giving you a more clear and open tone when combining the neck/middle or bridge middle pickups. AKA the “EJ Mod”.
Master Volume: Top Knob
Neck Tone: Middle Knob
Bridge Tone: Bottom Knob
Standard Switching
Position 1: Bridge
Position 2: Bridge and Middle
Position 3: Middle
Position 4: Middle and Neck
Position 5: Neck
Included:
- (3) CTS 250k vintage taper split shaft potentiometers
- (1) CRL USA 5-way lever switch (Switch tip sold separately)
- (1) Prewired Switchcraft USA mono input jack
- (1) Mojotone Dijon Tin Foil .047uf capacitor
- (1) Optional Treble Bleed (Preserves highs on volume control)
- (1) Detailed wiring diagram and easy to understand instructions
Note:
Guitars made overseas may require you to enlarge the holes for the larger US spec pots to fit. You will also need to change the metric knobs to inch sized 24-knurl push-on knobs and the switch tip. See related items. If you have a non-Fender brand strat or overseas made strat, please verify the fit before purchasing.