Prewired Strat Pickguard

3rd guitar I’ve put Fralin pickups in! Love them! They have an open liveliness yet full and powerful. Customer service was outstanding helping me with selection for a vintage look and sound.

Unbelievably great sounding pickups…

From start to finish, the whole process was flawless. Spoke with Lindy himself, who help me select the right pickup and configuration for that “dialed in” sound. The builder contacted me personally, making suggestions and in the end, I wound up with the perfect set of pickups and the perfect tone. Next set of pickups that I need, I know who I’ll be going to for sure: FRALIN!!

I’m very pleased with the Vintage Hot pickups I received, excellent wiring on the prewired guard. Definately pleased with the tone of these once I backed them off from the strings.

Got the pre-wired Strat pickguard, neck and middle Pups are the Blues Specials, bridge is the Steel Pole 42. Also opted for the treble bleed circuit and blender. These went into my 2000 Custom Design Strat that was originally equipped with the Noiseless II pups, which were nice, but never really sat well with me. I play mostly classic blues rock typically through a Kemper Profiler. I spent a lot of time using the tone comparison feature of the website, I’m happy to report my results were very similar to what I heard there!

These pickups turned my Strat tones to pure gold! Honestly, every combo is absolutely satisfying; clean, gritty, pushed hard-doesn’t matter! Not sure I have the language to really capture the tonal difference but I can say that (for me) the level of complexity and richness of each tone is just immediately apparent and then compounds once you start blending them. In fact, I liked these so much I got myself another (less fancy, ha ha) Strat to someday throw another pup combo into! Can’t recommend these enough, and of course installation was a breeze! I did have to explore pickup heights a bit, but even that was a ton of fun! Good luck, thanks, and hat’s off to Team Fralin!!!

I was 100% impressed by this order. The pickups are fantastic. The wiring was well done. The guard fit without any need to adjust things. The instructions provided to wire it up were perfect, and the order got to me well within the time frame I was told they would arrive when I ordered.

I would do one thing differently on the next order though…The jack that I upgraded was extremely tough to solder. I had to rough up the terminals to accept the solder. Whatever the plating or coating was that were on the jack terminals caused this problem. I am an electronics tech by degree and worked as a bench tech for a major GPS manufacturer for a few years. I know how to solder. I was trained by professionals how to solder. The jack, however, would not cooperate. This isn’t Fralin’s fault by any means. I should just have ordered the standard jack.

I’m a Fralin pickup user. I now have Five guitars with different Fralin pick ups insatalled. This prewired hot strat pickguard went into a MIM standard strat. (pre player series MIM). The guitar sounded ok before. Now.. It sounds like “The Stratocaster.”. The “put this on the spacecraft so aliens will know we made this” Stratocaster.

Everything I was looking for. Blues special wind all off white beautiful wiring and solder job sound fabulous

I’ve been buying Fralin pickups (local guy) since they began and just purchased my second pre-wired pickguard. Its loaded with 3 blues specials and has the blender pot. To me this is the perfect strat set…lots of quack in 2 & 4 and the neck rips. The blender gives an opportunity to soften the bridge tone to or go all the way to a pseudo tele in-between sound. The single master tone is perfect in its simplicity. Mostly I’m in 2, 4 or neck. The folks there are helpful and friendly and it was great to see an old friend and amp tech, JH, working there as I walked into the shop. The best pickups around, they have pretty much everything covered from vintage sc to humbuckers with a great website displaying all the technical details. BTW, both my teles are Fralin wired control plates and pickups as well.

Wow!!! I wanted to give my MIM Classic Player 60’s Strat more “growl”. Ended up getting a pre-wired tortoise shell pick guard with Steel-pole 43s and blender pot. Not only is my strat now a beast when the gain is turned up, but the cleaned up “Strat” sounds amazing!!! Here is my advice….don’t dither and just make the jump…

I ordered the loaded Strat pickguard with Blues Specials. They are everything I hoped they would be – thicker, fatter, yet still very Stratty. I wanted to get a little more versatility out of my Strat to cover various 70’s classic Rock, 80’s and 90’s songs in my band without changing guitars. These are perfect & made the Strat my go-to guitar!

Absolutely outstanding! This Fralin pickguard transformed my mid-70s strat from a sentimental favorite, just kept around for nostalgia, into my current #1 active instrument. Here are the build details: neck = steel pole 43; middle = blues special; bridge = blues special with a baseplate; plus the Fralin wiring with a blender pot. Not a bad sound on it and what feels like infinite nuance across the range from p90 to tele. I can’t recommend it enough!

Dear Fralin Team – just rec’d and installed my lefty loaded Strat guard.  As I had hoped!!  My ’93 MIA sounds super now. Thanks a million!

I’ve had a lot of Strats, and I’ve tried a LOT of different pick-ups. These are by far the best sounding Strat pick ups I’ve ever played. Excellent note articulation, superb tone from lows to mids to highs. Clean is absolutely stellar, but they also crunch like a million dollars.
The pre-wired pick guard with the blender pot is amazing and saves so much time. Just wire it to the output jack, screw it down and you’re ready for some amazing sounds.
Don’t overthink it- the sounds on the website are good- in person they are phenomenal.

The clarity of these pick-ups (Blues in the bridge, Vintage Hots middle and neck) is amazing! My Strat never sounded so good!