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Pre-Wired Strat Pickguards
The biggest selling electric guitar design of all time is the Fender Stratocaster and it's many derivatives. The beauty of the Stratocaster's design is that all the electronics (except the jack-socket) fit on the pickguard assembly. For the simplest installation why not buy one of our pickguard assemblies.
Please note that you need to check that your particular guitar has the necessary recesses to accept humbucker equipped pickguards.
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Vintage Tone
Launched in 1954 the Fender Stratocaster has been used by a variety of top-line artists - Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, Stevie Ray Vaughn, etc - who have all used this versatile instrument in their own idiosyncratic way. Guitars from different eras have different sounds as pickup designs have developed over the years. The wide range of pickups we have will let your guitar cover every tone from Hank Marvin to Stevie Ray!
Three identical pickups (staggered Alnico V magnets surrounded by 8,000 to 8,700 turns of 42 AWG Formvar wire) created the sound that launched a legend. In late 1974 the staggered polepieces were replaced by flush polepieces as the advent of light gauge strings rendered staggered poles obsolete. The wire was replaced by enamel coated wire in the early 60s and Polysol wire in the 80s. Early pickups were wax-dipped until the mid-60s and then again from 1981. Due to tighter wrapping and scatter winding on earlier, hand-wound pickups output is slightly higher while treble response is more emphasised on modern parallel wound pickups.
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Hot Strat Pickups
Many guitarists like to get just a little more drive out of a Strat, particularly from the bridge pickup, and we can offer a range of hot strat pickups that go from having higher output single coils through to humbuckers that recreate the sound of a Gibson PAF but in a Strat package.
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Very Hot Strat Pickups
For Heavy Rock and Heavy Metal players who like a Strat we can offer a range of very hot pickups that can place a Fender Strat, or clone, in Charvel/Jackson or Ibanez territory.
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