🎵 Elevate Your Strat Game with Style!
The Musiclily 11 Hole SSH Loaded Pickguard is a premium upgrade for your Strat-style electric guitar, featuring a prewired setup with two single-coil pickups and one humbucker. Designed for easy installation, it fits standard Fender and Squier models, ensuring a seamless transition to enhanced sound quality and aesthetic appeal.
Package Dimensions | 28.45 x 24.38 x 5.59 cm; 400 g |
Item model number | GTHS-04 |
Colour | 3Ply white |
Item Weight | 400 g |
N**R
Great guitar pick guard
Loved the simple upgrade of my project.Easy to install.Sounds great.Minimum soldering three wiresInstall wiring diagram.
M**W
Reasonably good for the price
I bought this for a project guitar I was putting together - I didn't want anything at all expensive for an untested/untried rig. I didn't actually use the frame as I had created my own but it was easy to remove the component parts and then refit. The wiring and soldering seems to be ok and I didn't have to make any adjustments. There isn't a jack with this but bought one separately and was easy enough to solder the connections. Works well and for the price I am happy enough with the sound quality.
N**D
Good value
Prompt delivery, looks good, perfect fitGreat value
G**D
Improvements to a Fender Stratocaster guitar
The end result is good and the sound of the guitar is much improved. There was a lot of modifications to make to the guitar so that the new pick guard and pick ups can be fitted. The end results were worth the effort.
J**R
Good for a quick squire upgrade
It's ok, the humbucker isnt great but at least it gives an unused squire some usability. The fit wasn't perfect, my squire strat bullet has the correct spacing but this didn't fit snug, it has a slight buldge on the center because of where the wires sit and also the height of the pickups were a bit off, took a bit of force to get them level. I think it's good for the price but I wouldn't buy it again, theres better options out there.
G**N
Literally saved my guitar
Rarely write reviews but have to for this product. My black burst squier affinity strat (perfect condition) fell 2ft vertically onto floor while sitting. After this the bridge selection would not make any sound when strings played and was buzzing, and the other 4 positions had bad humming. I looked around online but couldn't find any obvious explanations/solutions. My only soldering experience has been replacing a telecaster switch and whilst I took off the pickguard and tried to follow a wiring diagram I could not resolve the issue.I first considered buying a new guitar and just selling the body and/or neck as I imagined a tech visit would be costly (bought the guitar for only appx £200 2 years ago). I searched for "squier replacement parts" which didn't bring up much for my electronics skill level, and the same guitar now costs appx £265.Then I luckily came across "loaded pickguards" which led me to this product. I easily soldered 1 ground wire to the trem claw and the other ground + live wire onto the wires that were left coming off of the input jack - could have removed these previous wires and soldered new ones directly onto input jack but this was easier for me.It was a bit of a challenge to get everything tucked in so that the pickguard could be screwed down but the holes alligned perfectly. I actually prefer the sound of these pickups over the stock affinity squier ones, especially the bridge and neck positions.I hope given how cheap this was no sound problems arise in the future but for now this was an absolute bargain and literally saved my guitar - looks & plays good as new.
P**R
Ready made, easy to install
Works well, easy to install, tonal controls work, cheap way to get your old strat back up and running.
D**N
A very neat drop-in
A very convenient way of upgrading your strat. I can’t say how well it sounds as I haven’t installed it yet but, based on what I’ve seen so far, it looks a very neat. Hope it sounds as good as it looks.
M**A
Great sound, and easy to install.
I bought this loaded pickguard because my HSS Strat's humbucker worked intermittently and I couldn't diagnose the problem. I figured it was cheaper and easier just to replace all of the pickups with this kit. The installation was very easy and the only issue I had was the screw holes not completely lining up. I found out it's because my guitar is made in Japan and it's different from Mexican/American Strats. I still made it work however.The new pickups sound better to my ears. I find myself using all 5 of the switch positions, when I only used 3 at most on the originals. The humbucker can't be split or adjusted with the tone knob, but I didn't use that much on the old pickup to begin with. Overall, a great value.
A**P
Wow
This was easy to install. Some of the screw holes did not line up and I had to drill some new holes in the body to match up. It looks good, sounds great and has a pretty high output.
A**M
Quality Sound for Price
Im just a hobbyist player at home, played for 17 years, installed this on my early 2000s Squire Stratocaster, which had metallic, extremely bright sounding SSS style pickups. The humbucker adds a good amount of grit to the bridge pickup, and the 2 single coils are surprisingly warm for around $30. I'm glad I tried these out, instead of dripping hundreds on name brand pickups, because these are great. The pots are smaller than the ones I'm able to dial in the tone really well with them. Installation was extremely easy if you know how to use a soldering iron. Overall extremely impressed with the quality for the price.
G**
Simple, cheap.
This fit my guitar almost perfectly. The sound is an upgrade compared to the original one that was in my Sammick. It was very easy to install and has exceeded my expectations. It looks great, too!
F**N
Made a cheap used electric usable
My son bought a cheap Fender Starcaster off of Facebook Marketplace, but the electronics were shot. I was going to write it off as one of those life lessons when I discovered that fully-wired pickguards were a thing.I bought this one because it was relatively cheap and I didn't expect much. But everything was fine. I was able to figure out the wiring from the diagram in the description easily enough (there are no more instructions). The holes didn't quite line up, but I drilled new holes, which worked perfectly.I don't have enough experience with electric guitars to comment on the tone quality but there wasn't any static or buzzing, which is a lot better than what we had before.I guess this was one of those life lessons: the good kind.
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