Prewired Strat Pickguard
Don’t settle for some one-size-fits-all generic pickguard. Design your own with the finest-quality materials in the industry. Our Strat Prewired Pickguards are the perfect product for anyone who wants the Fralin Tone, instantly. We use the finest materials available: from CTS® Pots, USA-Made Pickguards, and CRL® Switches.
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What's Included?
Fully prewired and assembled and includes a set of Knobs, a Matching Switch Tip, and Mounting Hardware.
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Prewired Strat Pickguard FEATURES:
At Fralin Pickups, we’re always trying to make you sound better. The Fralin Prewired Pickguard offers the best tone and highest quality available. We use our world-famous pickups with the best ingredients we can get. We hand-wire our prewired pickguard with painstaking attention to detail.
Furthermore, you can customize your pickguard exactly how you want it! With this Prewired Pickguard, you can have the famous Fralin tone and ease of mind. All you need to do is solder a few wires, screw it in, string it up, and you’re off rocking!
Features:
- The ultimate “Build Your Own” Stratocaster Pickguard
- USA-Made pickups & electronics for superior quality
- Hand-wired with USA-Made vintage cloth lead for a traditional look
- Fully customizable – from appearance to function
- Features a variety of Push-Pull mods for a personalized tone
- Hand-assembled signed and dated by our pickguard craftsman
- 10-year warranty on materials and craftsmanship
Sound & Look
Choose Your Pickguard
We use the finest quality pickguards available. These are standard USA-Made 11-hole Stratocaster pickguards. The following options are available:
We wanted to use the highest-quality, USA-Made pickguards available. We have Single Ply White (8-hole vintage style), 3-Ply White, Mint Green, Parchment, Black, White Pearloid, Parchment Pearloid, and Tortoise.
Please note: that while we try and make every effort to make sure everything matches, different manufacturers and dye lots can cause subtle differences in hue and tone.
Choose your pickups
With our pickguards, you can choose any combination of pickups you would like. Load in a calibrated set of pickups like our best-selling Vintage Hots or Blues Specials, or mix and match!
Choose your Cover Color
Customize your look further with our Strat Pickup Covers. We have White, Black, Mint Green, Parchment, and Yellow covers available.
Wiring
Customize your pickguard’s wiring by selecting between two powerful wiring options. Select between Fralin Pickups Wiring and Standard Stratocaster® Wiring.
Fralin Pickups Wiring features an intuitive layout: a Master Volume, Master Tone, and a Blender Pot. The Blender Pot delivers incredible versatility by allowing you to combine the Neck and Bridge, for Telecaster-type tones, and more. Fralin Pickups wiring is Lindy’s favorite way to wire a Stratocaster.
Standard Stratocaster Wiring delivers a classic take on the Strat – a Master Volume, Neck & Middle Tone, and a separate Bridge Tone. This wiring allows you to select multiple cap values for a bit more tone versatility.
Custom Requests can be made using the “notes” field.
Addons
We have a ton of add-ons available for your pickguard. Want a baseplate installed on your bridge? How about our Volume Kit? Need new pickguard screws? Just let us know!
Matching Backplates:
Complete your look with a matching backplate for your Strat. We have matching backplates for all of our pickguard colors.
Installation
Check out our installation guide below to put your new pickguard in! With 20 minutes a few easy steps, you can get your pickguard in your guitar and start rocking out with some of the best sounding pickups in the world! Follow the Installation Guide below, or watch the video:
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NOTES ON COLOR:
- Please note that while we strive to provide the most accurate color representation possible, different computer monitors, manufacturer dye lots, and other circumstances may prevent the color from matching perfectly.
- Since we cannot guarantee color matching, we cannot provide a return to you if you are unhappy with the color matching of our Prewired Strat Pickguard.
HARNESSES:
- Our parts and wire lengths are designed to work seamlessly with our Prewired Strat Pickguard. Due to various guitar and instrument designs, we cannot guarantee that our parts will fit properly, and due to this, we do not offer Wiring Harnesses.
I couldn’t ask for a better loaded pick guard or service! They were very accommodating about a last minute change and really “delivered the goods”!
Amazing sound and easy install. I’ll buy many more, I’m sure.
Bought a loaded pickguard for my Strat with your 54 in it wow nown away with the tone I’m getting just beautiful are articulate best sounding Strat I’ve got now THANK YOU !!
Solid 3 single coil strat sounding pickup set (Blues) better than most! Very excited to have played several gigs. My only issue is that the pre wired pickguard is noisy. Not in the traditional sense of hum but there is a clicking / grounding issue when touching the pickup height adjust screws.
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Happy at last! I have a semi-hollow, hardtail custom Strat that plays great, but I was never satisfied with its sound. Over the years I tried changing the pickups (including famous brands), both humbuckers and single coils, but I just never really dug it. I finally reached a point of frustration and decided to give it one last try or sell the guitar. I bought a loaded pickguard from Lindy with Steel Pole 43 pickups in the neck and middle and a Split Steel Pole bridge pickup. Lindy called me himself to ensure that the configuration was going to give me what I was looking for. The blend pot and Gibson tone cap make it easy to dial in very satisfying ES-330 type tones. But the surprise is the bridge pickup — easily the best I’ve ever had in any guitar, straight into the amp with no effects it sounds incredible.
These pickups sound beautiful!!! Enough said!
First time using Fralin pickups in one of my own guitars. The Steel Pole 42s are downright crushers! Pristine highs that are not brash or harsh. Those gorgeous in between tones are perfect and the bridge and middle cut through without getting painful. A truly balanced set for nearly any style of music!
I specced a loaded Stratocaster guard with Fralin Real ’54s in the neck and middle position and the Split Steel Pole Strat in the bridge. The pickups sound terrific in my hardtail Stratocaster. The guard was delivered exactly the way I asked including a capacitor only treble bleed on the volume control and the independent neck pickup volume control in the 2nd tone knob position. There’s a lot of sound combinations available to me with this setup. The Real 54’s sound very natural and the Split Steel Pole Strat gives me a little more in the bridge and the P-90 flavor of the pickup really seems to agree with the all mahogany body. Plus the pickup is noise cancelling but still single coil sounding due to Lindy’s design. Many thanks to all at Fralin
Fantastic, it’s like a whole new guitar. Great job, and so easy to install.