The Chromacaster and FAT-O-Caster!
Yes, this is the place to buy the kits I have developed for the discriminating Strat hot-rodder.
The kits include a pre-wired switch and printed instruction booklet, with text and drawings.
Even the novice hot-rodder can succeed with one of these easy-to-install upgrades.
Take yer Strat from mild to wild!
HOW?
These kits replace the middle tone control with a rotary switch (you wire the lower tone as a master).
ALL of the kits allow you to get all seven possible parallel pickup combos,
as well as some series combos for humbucker-ish tones.
Some of the kits also feature out of phase (series and parallel) combos,
to help your Strat "sit in the mix" without making it muddy...
The Chromacaster
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Wanna hear some of the tones?
CLICK HERE for a page of sound samples
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Some unsolicited youtube demos from happy customers:
Squier with Tex-Mex pups and a Memphis Mods M-3 Jersey Mod...
Tokai Strat with Texas Specials and Fat-O V.2 - the very British "how to"...
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SOME TESTIMONIALS...
Here's the lastest and most unusual testimonial so far - Rex installed a Chromie in his Burns DoubleSix!
I now have a famous customer - Peter Stroud, the guitarist with Sheryl Crow!
Here's another testimonial from long-time FAT-O user Sean with The Detonators (follow that link to his band).
"For the past several years I have used your switches in the guitars I gig with, Here's an easy answer to a couple of common questions...
"I got my Fatocaster & installed it in my American Standard Strat "project guitar."
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Confused about which kit is which?
CLICK HERE for a page with tone charts for the Chromacaster,
CLICK HERE for a page with tone charts for the Memphis Mods
AND, for H-S-S guys! Got a Fat Strat, with a full-sized humbucker in the bridge? **********
The two most common questions:
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How can YOU get one? **********
Yes, it's a new day: the Chromacaster - not just for Strats anymore!
He also writes a column for Premier Guitar Magazine,
and wrote a nice little blurb on the Chromie in his column of December '06.
Click HERE for that webpage/column in PDF file format.
BTW, Sean proposed the idea that became the Jersey Mod...
and now a Strat feels weird to me without a FAT-O in it!
I have a couple of others that I put blender pots in,
but I like the Fat-O-Caster switch way better...
It's a quote from recent e-mail I got from a FAT-O owner:
It works great with the 57/62 Strat pickups in neck & middle & Fralin Steel Pole 43 in the bridge.
Hard to believe Fender has not made this [the FAT-O] standard equipment!
Tone combos are more useable than those with Fender's S-1 switching on my American Deluxe.
Installation of the switch was pretty "idiotproof" thanks to your excellent directions & drawings.
Sounds are everything I wanted. Totally satisfied!"
FAT-O-Caster, the V.2 and the V.3
Check out the FAT-O schemes for your for Fat Strat!
What if I don't have stock Fender pickups in my Strat?
Do I have to replace the neck's middle knob) tone control,
or can I replace the mid pickup's (lower) tone control?
Click here for the order page!