

🎸 Upgrade your Strat’s soul with authentic tone and rugged style!
This Alnicov Loaded Prewired Pickguard Set features authentic Alnico V single coil and humbucker pickups, designed as exact replicas of classic Stratocaster pickups. Crafted with eco-friendly, odorless materials and a durable anti-scratch black pickguard, it offers a smooth, wear-resistant surface that protects your guitar while delivering rich, vintage tone. The prewired SSH configuration ensures straightforward installation, making it a perfect upgrade for Strat players seeking both style and substance.
| ASIN | B08MPRHL2P |
| Best Sellers Rank | #68,157 in Musical Instruments ( See Top 100 in Musical Instruments ) #834 in Electric Guitar Pickups & Pickup Covers |
| Body Material | Copper |
| Color Name | Black |
| Connector Type | 3.5mm mono audio jack |
| Customer Reviews | 3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars (217) |
| Date First Available | November 4, 2020 |
| Item Weight | 1.52 pounds |
| Material Type | Alnico 5, Copper |
| Package Dimensions | 13.27 x 10.59 x 2.48 inches |
J**Y
Great looking loaded pick guard
Fast order to delivery. Item looks great and if it gives a quality sound I’ll have saved $200
R**N
Far from an expert, but serves my needs nicely as a beginner.
I am returning to learning guitar after originally quitting on it back in high school about 7 years ago. I picked up a '90s Korean Squier strat from a pawn shop and threw some upgrades on it, including this kit. Also put on Grover locking tuners, a $23 wilkinson tremolo, and graph-tech nut and string trees. The pickguard did require a little bit of trimming near the bridge in order to properly fit as well as not all of the screwholes lining up, but given how cheap of a kit this is and that it's going on a cheap squier, I'm not really concerned with that. To my novice ears, the pickups sound good and I like the HSS configuration since that is what was stock on my Squier. Connecting the ground and the jack was pretty easy, however, soldering is something I am not a novice at and I have nice equipment for that, but a beginner shouldn't have any problems. There's plenty of slack in the cables if you mess up and need to cut a fresh new end of wire. If you get a constant buzzing noise, you probably wired the jack backwards, so just swap and resolder the cables there. (speaking from experience lol) I also think it looks way more badass than the generic white pickguard and pickups. Think it has kind of a punk rock look, which also fits too cuz the guitar body is kinda beat to hell and back even though you can't see it in the photo lol. If you're looking at putting this on a more expensive guitar, I would look to reviewers a little more qualified than I am, but for my use case, I am very happy with my purchase.
S**R
Sounds really good
Used this to upgrade my new Chinese Squire strat to a better sound. The ceramic pickups are ok but they don't have that vintage sound on the old LP's. I had a sound in mind when I got the squire but it just didn't have it. The pickguard holes did not match on the new Stratocaster and it didn't work as a straight swap. It had two terminals with big solder drops that while they didn't make contact it wouldn't work. when I saw the problem I just desoldered the pickups and soldered them into place on the original pickguard keeping the original pots and switch. Very nice crunchy rasp without any FX settings, kind of a sax sound if that makes sense to you. The tone dials actually make a difference with the new pickups that they didn't with the ceramic pickups. Amazing value even though I didn't use the pickguard, it was kind of scratched up despite the plastic covering, perhaps meant to look vintage to match the sound? The chrome covers were very nice, giving it all more expensive look. To be honest, I had planned on changing it all out to the old pickguard but was afraid to do all the soldering, but it turned out to be easy anyway.
B**G
Unbearable Hum, Purchase At Your Own Risk
Unusable. The first issue I noticed while installing it was that the screw holes were drilled in the wrong place and didn't fit my stock Squier Strat. Only 3 of the screw holes were close enough to put in the screws at an angle. Then I noticed that the pickguard was too big by the bridge and went over the bridge. It would've needed to be sanded down in order to fit. I thought I'd deal with that, and drill new holes in the body and sand down that edge of the pickguard, but when I installed it and plugged it in, there was unbearable feedback. The actual guitar audio was barely audible over the hum and feedback. I had my friend's dad, who's a professional at fixing guitars, look at it and he tried to fix it, and it didn't help. Purchase at your own risk. Yours might work just fine, but mine didn't. That's the risk you take when you buy Amazon spec Chinese garb. There's no consistency in quality.
L**A
Bold sound
Easy to install and sounds bold and powerful
E**K
Awesome! Just what I was looking for!
Rebuilt my 1st guitar, Fender Bullet Hard Tail Body, Fender Squire Neck, Alnico V Pickups. Sounds good! Easy to install, good value for the price. High output performance for a non active pickup.
A**R
Made my squier sound 10x better
I put this on my hard tail squier, it was a little difficult because the pickguard came with 2 red and one white wire ( no grounding wire like the default squier has), for any one wondering I just soldered one red and the white to the audio jack, and the other red to the bridge, and it sounds great. No unwanted feedback and the tone is great. Bridge humbucker has a super clean tone, and when putting on distortion its a nice heavy tone. Only downside is you have to drill some holes but thats alright.
J**L
Very noisy with messed up wiring.
Very noisy . Not sure who or how but some one screwed the wiring up so bad on my pre wired pick guard that all you got was noise when you played it in . Never got it to work.. had to order a different prewired plate from a different company and it works perfectly.
P**8
Pickguard vite changé, car les vis fournies sont blanches... Question de goût. Démontage remontage faciles, soudures (3) pas bien compliquées, branchement et ...miracle, le son attendu est bien là ! N'hésitez pas à virer les micros d'origine Squier🥴 Le humbucker est jouissif😉 J'ai reçu le colis très bien emballé, dans les délais annoncés. Je suis très satisfait de mon achat... À voir dans le temps
M**E
Funkade jättebra till min Strata
C**S
Item as described, though having trouble wiring the output jack...could somebody help with which wires got to where? Came withe one red and the white grouped together and the other red separate...wired the red and white to the output jack and the other red to earth as I thought this would be the correct configuration, but have no sound output...what am I doing wrong. I built the body myself from a 200 year old bar top from an old pub and used a 2003 Squier neck. Although there is no electric output, the resonance through the body is awesome. I did slightly modify the body which required slight modification of the pickguard as the photo depicts. Just need some help with the electric set up now.
H**O
Die Pickups und Poti in der Farbe Silber fühlen sich sehr billig an und die Töne sind ok. Kein Rauschen. Für den Preis kann die Gitarre günstig aufgerüstet werden und schick sieht es aus. Die Löcher passen nicht zu 100% aber eine kleine Bohrung und mit Schraubenzieher nachziehen, wird jeder schon hinbekommen.
C**N
il Seymour Duncan della mia cara e vecchia Glass Master è morto (anche i single coil erano abbastanza spompi) così ho deciso di montare l'oggetto in questione e devo dire che sono strabiliato! Mai avrei immaginato di avere una qualità simile ad un prezzo così ridicolo, sono letteralmente senza parole! I 2 single coil sui suoni puliti sono fantastici, suonano proprio bene, grintosi e graffianti, con tanto attacco e molta dinamica, belli squillanti in tipico stile stratocaster, molto bene anche sui distorti, soprattutto quello al manico ha proprio un bel timbro, scuro e cicciotto. L'humbucker è grintoso al punto giusto, sicuramente non è da metal, ma se amate la distorsione calda e morbida alla Knopfler questo è il pickup giusto! Una cosa che mi piace proprio tanto di questo humbucker è che è molto equilibrato, si sposa bene coi single coil, non si avverte quella differenza di volume che spesso è molto marcata quando si passa dall'humbucker al single coil, qui al contrario c'è molto equilibrio, e infatti in posizione 2 (ponte + centrale) restituisce un suono "stratocaster" molto bello e credibile nonostante l'humbucker non sia splittabile! Una cosa che invece non mi convince è la posizione 4, i 2 single coil insieme non mi piacciono proprio per niente, non assomigliano nemmeno lontanamente alla posizione 4 delle mie Fender! In conclusione direi che ho fatto un ottimo affare. P.S. Attenzione in fase di cablaggio, il filo bianco è il positivo che deve andare all'uscita + del jack, mentre i 2 fili rossi sono le masse, che andranno uno sul negativo del jack e l'altro a scaricare sul ponte o sulle viti delle molle...
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