Replacing pickguard on strat?

[Druw]

Hi,
to replace the pickguard on a strat, do you need to do any wiring/soldering etc? Or can you just pop in the pups and screw it on?
Thanks!

 

[ermghoti]

Unscrew the pups and selector, remove the knobs and pots.

 

[Druw]

and then I just screw the stuff onto the new pickguard?

 

[CoolCat]

no soldering needed as long as you don't accidently jerk something loose.

Seems I'm fixing someones guitar about once a week openning up the thing for a crappy pot or mainly the guitar plugs. or 5 posiiton.often enough I put a small table with foam top to prevent scratching the guitars and a solder station ready to go always...

have some towels to protect the paint so when your working you don't cause permanent damage...thats about all I know...I'm no guitar luthier and don't care to be...more like a highway repair shop mechanic getting the cars back on the road.

 

[Druw]

thanks! ill keep that in mind.

 

[Anfontan]

Hi,
to replace the pickguard on a strat, do you need to do any wiring/soldering etc? Or can you just pop in the pups and screw it on?
Thanks!

The output jack will have to be resoldered-the wires are routed through the body cavity from the pickguard to the jack itself. Be sure the ground is correct to prevent phase problems.

 

[cephus]

The output jack will have to be resoldered-the wires are routed through the body cavity from the pickguard to the jack itself. Be sure the ground is correct to prevent phase problems.

I think I'd say "The output jack may have to be resoldered". There should be enough slack to leave the ground and signal wires connected. I did it without even taking the strings off one afternoon when i realized that the mother of pearl pickguard I had on my strat was queer as a soup sandwich and found the stock pickguard under a stack of records in my basement.

If the pickguard isn't sheilded, or your strat didn't come with the sheet metal sheild, then you'll have to deal with that. There was a thread about it last week.

 

[ermghoti]

The output jack will have to be resoldered-the wires are routed through the body cavity from the pickguard to the jack itself. Be sure the ground is correct to prevent phase problems.

Probably not. When I had my local tech lock at the job I'd done installin a superswitch (nothing was actually wrong, the split coil actually sounded like that ), he put a little pad of some sort on the top of the body, dived the trem, and yoinked the guard out intact. I was impressed. Actually, he may have detuned, but I did the same thing when I swapped some pups for a friend, using a spiral notebook cover. Worked great.