Prewired Split Blade Pickguard

I paid for my college education with a scholarship to play in the college jazz band, played professionally with the Ivey Brothers for 13 years and have been playing now for 61 years. Own 31 guitars and have used many after market pickups over the the years. Replaced pickups on a variety of guitars with Fralins and have never been disappointed. My latest purchase was the Dual Blade Noiseless strat pickups. They transformed a guitar that I rarely played into one of my “go to” guitars! Wonderful in every respect…three dimensional, open, great overtones, they sing!

I bought the split blades for my Stratocaster and I couldn’t be happier! These pickups are very quiet and, best of all, they sound better than anything else I have tried. I just can’t believe how great these pickups sound. They are full, clear and they have the full spectrum of sound that I love! These are the real deal if you want the most versatile, and best sounding pickups out there! I got the prewired version mounted on a mint green pick guard and you won’t believe how great the workmanship is. I am blown away with the job they did and it was a five minute job to get them into my guitar. I have tried so many pickups over the years but these are my first set of Fralins and I am a believer! Thank you so much for building the best pickups out there!

Fantastic sounding pickups that solved my Strat noise problems. I went with Vintage in the neck and middle, High Output in the bridge — couldn’t be happier. The prewired pickguard was super easy to install – just had to solder the two connections to the input jack, done.

I swapped split blade pickguard on fender American ultra strat.
Ultra noiseless pickups are really good stuff but I wanted more. This is the answer.
I choose blues output blades, which is crystal clean and single coil sound with core. it’s magical thing.
It sounds much more strat without noise. Thank you Lindy. You saved my strat.

Nicely done.

I received both of my orders, one for a Prewired Split Blade Pickguard with Blues Output and the other for a set of Modern P.A.F. Humbuckers. Got everything installed with the help of the information on your site and the documentation you placed in each of the shipping boxes. Once I got everything installed I tested them out on a 57 Fender Tube Amp, the sound was awesome, I’ve never heard that Les Paul sound so good! As for the Prewired Split Blade Pickguard, it made my Stratocaster sound astonishing. It sounded exactly as Lindy described the Split Blade Pickguards in his videos and there was no Hum what so ever. I also want to thank Jenny Fralin and Tyler Delsack for helping me.

Great pickups the guys are really easy to deal with

I love everything about these split blade Strat pickups! I installed them in my 2007 Deluxe Strat which had the Noiseless Samarium Cobalt pickups with the S-1 switching system. They sounded, for the most part, uninspiring. These Fralins gave me everything that was lacking in the stock pickups. For starters, the hot bridge pickup sounds hot and biting like a good Tele pickup, without any shrillness. It reads at 9.45k, but blends really well with the neck and bridge combinations. Speaking of blending, I opted for the blender knob which allows me to blend the neck and bridge (sans middle) plus a myriad of other combinations. All the pickups sound great and have tons of tonal character. I suck at soldering, but even so, installation was a breeze. Communication was great. Shipping time was exactly how long they told me it would take (they are hand-made one customer at a time). I highly recommend Fralin!

I’ve been playing guitar for over 50 years. I am very impressed and pleased with my purchase and I feel as though these pickups are worth every penny. I love a good Stratocaster…However, recently I had been playing other guitars because the Fender tones were wimpy, lacking or too buzzy for recording or clubs. I just cannot tolerate a buzzy guitar. It forces me to play different and distracts me really bad. I had been using the EMG DG-20 pickups for about the past 14 years in my main Stratocaster because they were good for clubs with acceptable tones and a nice low noise level. IMHO, the EMG DG-20 does not sound like a Stratocaster. These Fralin High Output Split Rails through a Boogie Triaxis and 2:90 power amp produces the best overall Stratocaster tones I’ve ever had. I’ve tried Noiseless and Lace Sensors and these are the best to my ears. I’m really picky about my sound and I had to share a review because this is an investment that I couldn’t afford when I was younger. Fralin gave me the cry sound I want, the Hendrix sound, it’s got enough cluck and chunk. I was freaking out a bit after I pulled the trigger on these because they are not returnable, and I can’t judge tone using internet samples very well. However, once I got these dialed in to the correct height, (which was nice and low on my guitar) I was grinning from ear to ear. I know your experience may vary, but I’ve tried pickups from all kinds of winders and these for me are the absolute best. These replaced the fat 60’s in my Custom Shop, and I am completely satisfied with my Fralin Split Blades purchase. I plan to order another set for my 1986 American Standard.

I love, love, love, the way these sound and feel. I got the high output and they are extremely sensitive. The notes sound thick and juicy. These haven’t eliminated my hum issues completely like the Frailin p90’s did on my Telecaster. But my Strat is much quieter now. I won’t be swapping out pickups anymore. My search is over.

very good! love the tone and sound but still a little noisy hum

Best sounding pick-ups. What great pickups I purchased the split blade vintage pick up and everyone that has played the guitar loves the sound I compared it to a $3000 fender Stratocaster and my friend that owns the Stratocaster like the pickups in my guitar better and said that the Fraillan pickups were better sounding I had three guys at the guitar center not knowing what the guitar was made out of commented that the sound was the best they have heard. Thanks for the great pickups I will definitely be buying bass pickups from my next build

This is my second split blade set from Fralin and here is my very long winded review. I spent months experimenting with setup combinations on my Warmoth Strat build. If the guitar didn’t inspire me or sound quite right, I knew it was my set up and not the pick ups. When I finally found the “magic” combination of neck relief, action height, and saddle radius that matched my playing style, my pick ups didn’t lie. On a properly set up guitar, these pickups give clarity of note, “thwak” when you hit the guitar hard, punchy attack, glassy singing highs, and a velvet-like sustain with medium to high gain. Without touching my amp, I can channel Gilmore, play boot-scoot boogie, pretend I’m Clapton, rip some heavy blues, or clean it up for some Albert King riffing. All of this can be done with the controls on my guitar. The volume pot is extremely responsive over nearly the entire range. I can get “singing lady” sounds by dialing back my tone knob. Leave the tone knob at 10 and I can get some respectable Eddie Van Halen sounds from my bridge pick up. The Blender Pot is the most amazing tonal paintbrush I’ve ever experienced. With this mod, you will find your own tone that stands out from everyone else. It’s a secret sauce. Another secret weapon is the out-of-phase mod which uses a push-pull pot located in the tone position. Yeah, it’s good for funk…but, used in position 2, in conjunction with the blender pot, some gain, and dialing back the tone setting, the most incredible Hendrix-like tones are suddenly at hand. Again, without touching the amp. For Blues, dial back the volume pot to clean it up and suddenly you are cutting through the mix without an increase in volume or added harshness. I love the fact that these mods are hidden and there are no cheesy toggle switches. Get good with using the controls on your guitar and the tonal variety on tap will astound you (and mystify others!). Lindy and team, I really can’t thank you enough.

Everything I hoped for and more!
Been playing for nearly forty years. Toured professionally in the 90’s. Been a Gibson player most of my life. During Covid, the fret wear on my Gibsons rendered them practically unplayable. I was depressed. There was a three month turnaround for a fret job. More depressed. Needing a playable guitar, I went on Reverb and bought an 80’s Japanese Strat and a Warmoth neck with stainless frets. Got it, plugged it into my Boogie, and the Fender Vintage 50’s pups in it stabbed me in my ear holes. I was even more depressed. I started researching loaded pick guards. There’s a few companies out there with large marketing budgets that offer decent loaded pick guards. The pictures of the product were fabulous but no matter how close I put my ears to my computer screen, I could not tell how they would sound in my guitar, through my rig, in my hands. There were soooooo many options that I became frozen with despair and thought about taking up Banjo. Alas, what to do…

I studied the forums attempting to translate the English Language into audible guitar tones. Frustrating. Then I read a review from a Fralin client expressing his surprise that when he called the Fralin company, Legendary Lindy Fralin himself spoke with him, acting as his pickup spirit guide. I was impressed. So I called, not expecting to speak with Lindy and happy enough to speak with anyone that might help. Guess what…I’m transferred to Lindy and we have ourselves a solid “shop talk” convo. He intuitively understood my expectations and needs after explaining to him my gear and playing experience. I placed my order, the loaded pickgaurd arrived before expected, and I warmed up my soldering iron.

What I experienced over the next month has changed my life. I am no longer depressed! My Strat sounds amazing. The Split Blade Humbuckers sing, have a harmonic warmth that is tight and focused. Somehow, the highs are still all there yet the sharpness is gone. There are countless players going for Stevie’s tone, Jimi’s tone, Clapton’s tone, Gilmore’s tone, etc, etc. These pickups will allow you to get all of those but most importantly, they allow me to get my OWN tone! The volume knob creates absolute magic with these pickups. The pickup blend circuit creates tones I could not have imagined. These pickups are a tonal canvass that has allowed me to paint whatever tone my imagination desires. Lindy and team, I am in your debt. Thank you for bring joy back into guitar journey.