Musiclily 11-Hole SSS Prewired Loaded Pickguard with Single Coil Pickups Set for Fender Squier Strat Electric Guitar, 4Ply Aged White Pearl

Overall, I’m happy with the quality of this item. Sounds great and easy to adjust. I was able to toenail in all the screws for my Squier Strat, so no complaints there even though this was comically misaligned. Was a little disappointed that I needed to solder three wires, but now I know how to solder (sort of) and now own a soldering iron, so overall a net gain. Plugged it in and it worked and sounded great, so I’d recommend this for a budget build or refurb.

I got a cheap knockoff guitar for a trade on Offer Up. It was a badly made guitar but I wanted a project guitar and did not want to use a nicely made guitar and fiddle with it. So I used this cheap knockoff which someone had for $50 on offer up. I went ahead and purchased the Red tortoise shell Musiclily pick guard and Musically 6 inline Sealed Guitar Tuners Tuning Pegs Keys in black. So this review will contain some pitfalls and some pros. Starting with the pick guard, it lined up nicely but I still had to do some work from the pictures I had to use a Dremel tool to grind the area above the bridge, since the pick guard came too far down in that area. While it did line up only one hole matched, so I had to drill some new holes. I also shielded the entire cavity with copper foil which you do not have to do but I watched a luthier from Fender showed why he shields the entire cavity so does the team from Stew Mac do the same thing, so I used some copper foil also from Amazon and did that first. Also the wiring is pretty decent, they give you a picture on the Amazon page but it would have been nice to have a spec sheet or paperwork or PDF on the wiring and electronics. The tuning pegs were easy to install and they are just ok and better than the original ones on the guitar (I took pictures of that as well). I say the best way to do the wiring is with soldering equipment, I would not recommend using electrical tape. It was easy to install but it is best to do some prep work first. For instance since none of the holes matched, I covered the pickups securely and put the pick guard in and drilled the holes using the pick guard as the guide rather than marking them. The wiring was easy but in a badly made guitar it is hard. I cut the ground wire to the bridge in half leaving some of the original wire and I soldered the new ground wire to the old existing ground wire so I did not have to spend 30 minutes trying to run a wire through a tiny hole. I will go back and redo that job later. I soldered the white and black wire to the output jack after removing the old wires. The sound is decent not great on standard the guitar sounds great. In overdrive (distortion mode) I am getting a lot of feedback. I will go back and rewire once more and if that does not work, I will change the output jack and see if that makes a difference. It is a project guitar and it does sound much better with the new parts. I also changed strings to D'Addario EXL110 also from Amazon. So while I still have much to go on this as a project it does sound better and the new tuning pegs does allow this guitar to stay in tune much longer. Will keep you posted.

I had to do a bit more than just solder 2 wires to fit this prewired pickguard onto my early 2000s Squier Strat, since no two Strat clones are exactly the same, I would definitely NOT blame Musiclily's prewired pickguard for that. Despite some of the reviews, the pickups actually sound really good in my opinion, maybe not better than extremely high end Seymour Duncans or Fender's pro series single coils, but this is a huge upgrade for most of the cheap Strats or Strat clones I have played. The SSS configuration is what I got, and is perfect for playing clean, blues, or classic rock, and it sounds awesome with a RAT style distortion effect. Most would recommend humbuckers for playing with really high gain distortion like metal or punk music rather than this configuration. Overall this was a really fun project, and got me really into modding my Strat, I will probably be buying Musiclily's bridge and tuners next.I don't think anyone should be dissuaded from purchasing this just because you might need to do a bit of planning or some extra soldering to get everything to fit your particular Strat style guitar; but I wanted to include this just as an example for some modifications you MIGHT need to do. For reference, this was my first time soldering, and thought it was a really fun project. I was able to accomplish everything in one evening.Here are modifications I had to make to fit the prewired pickguard in my 2005(ish) Squier Strat:- Insulated the electronics cavity with copper tape (EM Conductive paint would have been better) since apparently there was absolutely no EM insulation on the body before.- Had to rewire output jack since it wasn't possible to separate the hot/ground wires that were jacketed together. (used a wire from my Squier stock ceramic pickup as a patch, but probably could have prevented the extra step if I had noticed sooner)- The selector switch wouldn't fit in the body, I had to remove the selector switch from the pickguard and flip it around, then re-solder the wires the opposite way to get it to fit with enough space away from the body.

Quality looks to be good, fits the body well, holes line up. Guitar not built yet, cannot comment on sound.

Now people mistakenly take for granted that I am playing a "toy" entry level guitar until I actually plug in. By no means should you expect the performance you would find in an expensive single coil pick-up, but for the costs, they pack a punch. Clear high and lows unlike the "muddy" stock pick-ups which were replaced. Relatively simple to install. Like others, a few of the screw holes were not exactly aligned but an easy fix. Now awaiting on the final mod- black locking tuners which will definitely help stay in tune.

My old Peavey Predator pickups wiring etc were done . Random buzzing cut outs etc and when I took it apart it was clear that after 30 years of was time to replace. This pickguard almost dropped in first try , but I had to do a little sanding / filing to get a good fit. Only took a few minutes. Actually it probably took longer to get the shrink wrap off than to do the job. The new setup is quiet and the sound quality is definitely as good as if not better than the original set of electronics. A great choice .

El sonido es bueno, solo hay un inconveniente con el cableado no es de muy buena calidad y genera algo de ruido.

It looks great however the screws aren't included (no big deal I have spares from the old guard) however when installed only the neck pickup (Top position on selector) worked so I had to remove and swap the old pickups into the bridge and middle, so looks good but the fact 1out of 3 pickups worked and 2 didn't. Was quite upsetting.

Decía iba a llegar hasta jueves 23 pero llego al otro día, eso es efectividad de entrega y en cuestión de la calidad perfecto, muy bien cuidado el envío y muy buen estado es lo que esperaba y gracias por la plumilla excelente servicio en vdd

Estoy customizando mi primer guitarra, es una Crush by Orange negra que tiene ya 12 años,pero decidí darle nueva vida...Aún no he terminado el proyecto así que no probado el sonido de el nuevo pickguard, pero ¡luce muy bien!

Muy bueno