Help Please

[ZachRiggs101787]

Hello, I’m new to the forums.
I have a standard fat strat and I’m wanting to give it a face lift. It has black pickups, knobs, selector and pickguard. I found a preloaded version of what I’m lookinf for, but it’s white pickups with parchment knobs, selector, pickguard. How would I go about going through Seymour Duncan to find what I’m lookinf for? The humbucker is causing the to be a bit challenging. I’ve never changed pickups myself. So that is why I was hoping to get a preloaded pickguard.

 

[VinceT]

Re: Help Please

Hello, I’m new to the forums.
I have a standard fat strat and I’m wanting to give it a face lift. It has black pickups, knobs, selector and pickguard. I found a preloaded version of what I’m lookinf for, but it’s white pickups with parchment knobs, selector, pickguard. How would I go about going through Seymour Duncan to find what I’m lookinf for? The humbucker is causing the to be a bit challenging. I’ve never changed pickups myself. So that is why I was hoping to get a preloaded pickguard.

Hi, Zach - welcome to our happy band of travelers!

I’m a little confused by your post, as you say you’ve found a preloaded solution, but then it sounds like you haven’t. Can you tell us which of these is what you want to do:

1) put the preloaded pick guard on the guitar, but change the color of the pickups, switch and knobs to black?

2) swap one or more pickups between the two pick guards?

3) buy one or more pickup to swap into the new pick guard?

4) build a new pick guard to match the one you’ve identified?

If we can focus down your request, you’ll find folks here can be very helpful!

Best
Vince


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[Mincer]

Re: Help Please

From your post, it looks like you are only interested in changing the color. The good news is that your Standard Strat with 3 single coils is easy: you can buy all the knobs and the selector switch tip in whatever color you want. You can also buy different color covers for each pickup. Finally you can get whatever color pickguard you like. Then, there is no soldering. And you save quite a bit of money. Just take measurements of the height of each pickup before you swap the pickguard.