Prewired Strat Pickguard
The Ultimate Prewired Pickguard Choice
$355 – $372
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.
Our Pickups, Your Personality.
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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
Load your pickguard with a Complete Set or Mix and Match between our entire Strat® pickup line! Check out our sound samples below:
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We have 7 outputs of our Prewired Strat Pickguard. Compare them below.
About these Sound Clips:
All sound samples are played from Neck Position First and Bridge Position Last.
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Appearance
We only use the finest-quality, USA-Made pickguards available. Our pickguards are standard USA-Made 11-hole Stratocaster pickguards, unless you choose Single Ply, which is an 8-hole vintage-style pickguard. See below for the color options:
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 Cover Color
Customize your look further with our Strat Pickup Covers. We have White, Black, Mint Green, Parchment, and Yellow covers available.
Installation
Our installation is super-simple! Check out our Installation Video below:
Tech Specs:
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We don't have Tech Specs at the moment, but we will have them up soon!Prewired Strat Pickguard FAQ's
General FAQs
Here are quick answers to common questions we get:
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Can I return my pickguard?
No. Your pickguard is completely custom-built for you, so we cannot accept returns.
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What warranty applies to the pickguard?
10 Years on our Pickups, 1 Year on electronics, parts, and pots.
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What does the baseplate do?
The Baseplate adds a touch of power and output to the Bridge pickup. This mod is removable and is only available on certain models.
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What does the Bright Switch mod do?
The Bright Switch modification adds a bit of clarity, brightness and output when you pull up on the push-pull modification. This mod only affects pickups installed with 250K pots, so it won’t work on our Steel Pole 43’s and High Outputs.
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What does the Volume Kit do?
The Volume Kit (or Treble Bleed circuit) prevents your tone from getting darker when you roll your volume down.
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Does my Pickguard come with Hardware?
Yes! We ship all pickguards with the screws needed to install your pickguard.
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Do you sell Matching Backplates (Tremolo cover)?
Yes, we do! Simply check “Add matching backplate” in the “Options & Upgrades” box.
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Can I send you my pickguard to wire up?
Yes, you can! Order a Prewired Pickguard from us and let us know in the “Notes” field that you are sending us a Pickguard. Don’t select Tortoiseshell / Pearloid options as they are more expensive. Reference your invoice number on the new pickguard you send to us. Please note, you do not get a refund if you send your own pickguard in.
Product FAQ's
These are frequently asked questions about our Prewired Strat Pickguard. If you have a question that you don't see listed here, click "Ask A Question" in the Quick Links section above.
Featured Reviews
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250 Genuine Reviews for Prewired Strat Pickguard
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Way beyond expectations! This pre-wired set sounds incredible. One of my favorite Purchases this year.
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Incredible upgrade. I upgraded my 1996 American strat with a new pickguard and vintage pickups along with some tone knob upgrades and I can’t say how happy I am. It’s like a brand new guitar. Thanks!
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I ordered a pre-wired pickguard with vintage hots in the neck and middle and steel pole 43 on the bridge. Really liking the sound from all positions and the blender pot is really cool if you like some of those in-between sounds or need to make quick adjustments to neck or bridge sounds on the fly. If you like the in-between or scooped sounds like me you will probably always want these options on all of your axes. I was not aware of the ‘bright switch’ option on the volume pot is really just cutting the volume pot out of the signal. Not quite what I thought it would be but also not a big deal. Overall thrilled with the pickups and quality work in the pre-wired product to simplify installation. Really added new life to a 50s custom shop start that never had a good balance between output and sound across all positions with the stock or gold-lace pups. Also I like these pickups them more than American strat I have with Texas Specials. I would recommend these and already have to a couple of friends.
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Upgraded from Fat ’50s
The middle Fat 50’s pickup died on my ‘16 American Standard Strat so I decided to replace all of them with Vintage Hots. So glad I did, as the Fralins have everything I liked about the Fat ’50s and then some. Wonder pickups. -
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Fralin blues specials
I got the Fralin pre-wired pickguard with blues special pickups. Flawlessly build and ready to install. On my favorite Strat, it is the finishing touch. The remarkable combination between clarity and warmth and between dynamics and sweetness. Its all in there depending on your fingers.Just perfect (for me)
Marcel from Holland
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Better than expected! I got a prewired strat pickguard with the blues hot pickups and the blender mod with master tone for my 2012 MIM strat! I honestly couldn’t be happier, it was easy to install, and my strat sounds amazing. The Fralin quality and workmanship are as advertised!!
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Great Pickups! Great Service!
I ordered a loaded pickguard with the blues single coils and a blender pot. It arrived in perfect shape and exactly to my specifications, and even a littler earlier than expected. I initially had some trouble after I installed the pickguard, but after exchanging a few emails with the staff they put me in touch with Lindy directly. Lindy was great and gave me a bunch of ideas to try. He even offered to get on the phone with me and walk the circuit with a multi-meter if necessary! Needless to say, one of his ideas worked and everything is just as I imagined! The pickups sound great and I’m so satisfied! I will definitely order again from Lindy Fralin! Thanks!! -
Vintage Hots are great. Came with Fender Texas Specials but it’s a warm sounding guitar so it was just a little muddy. Now it’s a strat I can get into
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Prewired Strat Pickguard with Blues Special and High output pickups
This product is awesome. I was hesitant to use a pickup that wasn’t noise canceling but I couldn’t ignore all the buzz I heard about Fralin pickups. Pun intended. I had to try them for myself. I’m glad I did. The tone is incredible and the workmanship is elite. I notice a little humming but it doesn’t bother me. Also, it cancels out in the 2 and the 4 position which is where I like to play most. Huge thank you to Lindy and the team at Fralin Pickups. I will definitely be ordering more pickups from you all in the future. -
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I like this pickguard except for the Magic Cap which seems to have negligible if any impact so I would have been better off not bothering with this option
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Ultimate Strat Tone – Vintage hots loaded guard. They are what Lindy claims, “the best sounding strat pickup.” Attention to detail and experience achieve what Fender Corp no longer can – hand made quality. The subtle nuances and depth of tone are hard to describe until you compare side by side with the pickups you previously thought were good. Then the penny drops – no comparison!
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Prewired Perfection
So many great tones, so much fun. The search for a great Strat tone is over. These pickups are awesome. -
The Hiwatt of pre-wired pickguards
Ever see the inside of a Hiwatt amp? Extremely clean and precise, almost military looking. That’s what Lindy’s pre-wired pickguards remind me of. Amazing work. -
Vintage Hots!
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Great blues pickups! Great sound and very well assembled on the new pickguard. Pity the colour of the knobs don’t match with the pickguard
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Even better than I expected
I installed a set of 54s in my American deluxe strat and the sound is phenomenal! Clean sounds are well defined and crunch sounds don’t get muddy. The pickups were also delivered very quickly. -
Since I tried my first Fralin pick up years ago I realized it is the best single-coil pickup I have ever heard. Ultimate clarity and tone. The staff is really personable and easy to talk to and helped me out with every single detail on the phone. I’ll never use a different kind of single-coil then Fralin pickups! Every Strat should come stock with Fralin pickups.
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Fralin Vintage Hots
Absolutely love my new loaded Pickguard from Fralin pickups. Wanted to completely revamp my mid 90’s Made In Mexico Strat and WHAT a difference. I now have a real strat, it sounds like the vintage instruments I have played in the past and loved. Wonderful work and attention to detail and they make it so easy. Thank you so much guys, a new customer for life.Brian
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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.
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