How To Replace Pickguard on Fender Stratocaster
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- čas přidán 9. 08. 2017
- How To Replace Pickguard Fender Stratocaster
In this video I show you How To Replace the Pickguard on a Fender Stratocaster, while I change the pickguard on the Fender Stratocaster I fit it with a fresh set of strings.
This will also work for Squier Stratocasters as well
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Thank you for this vid. I would have changed the white pickup covers for aged ones. Would match better with the tone and volume knobs and the pickgard!
Thank you Sir. I needed this to change the pick guard on my EC Blackie Strat to save the original with original stickers in case I ever sell it. Nicely done and perfectly done with the 10-46 set of strings. These are ideal for any Strat and they are also the preferred strings by Eric Clapton and come as standard on all of his signature Stratocasters. Thanks for sharing!
Awesome glad this video helped you out, that sounds like a good plan to me.
Eric Clapton is a total legend 🎸🤘👌
The Guitar Manifesto Thanks again and Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays to you and your family! ❤️✌🏻🎸
Thanks .. mines pickguard and knobs just came in. Great job and it looks amazing. I just subscribed for more tips. Thank you sir !
Ah awesome welcome to the channel 💯🎸
you made that guitar shine....I wonder what I will find under the pick guard of my Strat HSS with a passing switch. i want a black guard on black painted body.
Gold work! But I always polish the frets too for a shiny look and more playability doing bendings for example. Nearby i use locking tuners. All my guitars have them. Easyer to change strings. And i locked the tremolo, 'cause i'm not a trem-guy😊 I'll change the white pickguard on my black Strat to a black one soon. If there'll be issues by working, I'll ask you for help😉Stay healthy!
Beautiful beautiful beautiful guitar!!!
She is a beaut 👌
Very usefull video. I'll do exactly the same with a Squier Classic Vibe, but going from white to tortoise pickguard. Thanks :)
Glad it helped 👌
Where do you get a decent tortoise? I have one with it, and I just dont like it (i thought it was going to be like the tortoise picks' material, but its just like a print instead 😐)
I’m doing this this week as well. How did it work out for you?
this helped a lot! thank you much
Glad the video helped
Thank you for this. I’ve got my eye on a Squier CV strat but if/when I get it, I think I’d want to swap out the tortoiseshell pickguard it comes with for a black one. This video makes the job seem much less daunting. :)
Ooh nice choice, glad the video helped
I've been putting off swapping my black one back on the strat MIM and take the mint green and put on my CV 60s strat. SB
Time to get the screwdriver out 😂🎸🤘
Guys, i have been trying for years to take my pickguard off but the one screw on the Upper horn, next to 21st fret is just TOO tight, what should i do?
@@0000song0000 try a different size screwdriver ...it may be it just needs a better grip. If it's stripped there are tools you can use to grab it and get out.
Hi so i have done this to my strat several times to change pickguards successfully. But the neck pickup keeps coming loose and its hitting the strings. Like there is no tension from the rubber feet from the inside and its only that pickup. Im getting tired if having to do it all again just to adjust it when its gona fall again
Do u have any suggestions on what could be happening?
Great - thanks.
Glad the video helped 🎸
next time I have a strat I'm getting a mint pickguard for sure.
Look so cool with mint green guard 🎸👌
Are all stratocaster bridge pick up cut outs swimming pools like that? Asking because I want to install a humbucker at the bridge, by just changing the pickguard, is that possible?
Hey man great video. May I ask what do you use as a neck rest? It's some kind of foam padding but what exactly?
hey dude thanks :)
I was just using some sound proofing foam board
My 2017 FSR gilmour strat MIM is also unpainted trem cavity. Lol. I wondered why?
Cutting corners shocking on a Fender
Thank you so much. I’m prepping to paint my off brand strat and put new pickups in them
Looked better the way it was, I wouldn't have changed that.
We all have different tastes old chap
Glad the video helped
Hi mate, I'm looking to change my pickguard in the coming weeks (when it arrives haha) hence why I stumbled upon your video. What's the purpose of the oil you used on the fretboard, and why don't people typically like the oil you used? Cheers
To stop the wood on the fingerboard drying out, each to their own I guess with the oil. I've been using lemon oil for many years always been great stuff
I ordered a fender kit off Amazon that included the aged knobs pick up covers and tips for the switches as well as a back plate for 27 bucks Canadian. That’s probably only about 20 bucks US … deal I thought.
That's a great price 😊
Hey just finished watching this video and very informative. I do have two questions.
1)- Does pickup height really matter? I'm concerned about somehow messing up the height of the pickups when I change the pickguard
2)- The foil on the back, on my new pickguard, it is covering some of the holes for the switch and screws. Is it fine to just pierce through it?
Thank you again for making this video, I'll be following this to change mine out!
Yes pickup heights is very important for tone and sound levels also too close and the magnets can pull the strings.
Yeah just pierce them they'll be fine
I haven't taken mine apart yet. Didn't notice if all three knobs are connected, so as to not "upset" their rotary position (where one is compared to ten). Also, would non-marring plastic auto tools be a good choice for some of this prying off of the knobs work well? Also, mine is HSS, so any other recommendations?
Well done sir! Very thorough. Do you know the tone knob color? It seems a bit darker than aged white. I have just purchased an american professional with Sienna burst and it comes with similar tone knobs but a bright white pickguard. I want to exchange the pickguard to match the tone knobs but seem to be having a problem finding the pickguard to match the tone knobs. Fender wont sell them individually. I believe the elite Strat comes with matching tone knobs and pickguard in aged white but the American professional comes with aged white tone knobs and bright white pickguard. Would you by chance have any insight?
They were aged white knobs that had aged a bit more making them look a little darker, try looking at Vanson pickguards they're always a good fit plenty of colours available
Hey bot sure if you still see comments on this but is there a knack to get the pickup selector handle off? Tried yanking it and feel like I’m going to damage the actual mechanism?! Cheers
Wiggle and pull
@@theguitarmanifesto ayy thanks! Will give it a proper wiggle later on!! Hope you’re keeping well🤘🤘
1:19 damn I didn’t know you could move super fast
do have super powers of some sort?? 🤔
Skills 😂👌🎸🤘
I've just removed pickguard on my Squier Strat (hoping to get it signed by Albert Lee later this week) Under the pickups are floating springs which may be difficult to line up when reassembling. Are these critical?
That's awesome 💯 the springs are easy to fit back in.
@@theguitarmanifesto thanks for reply
Guys, i have been trying for years to take my pickguard off but the one screw on the Upper horn, next to 21st fret is just TOO tight, what should i do? 😲
Use an impact driver
@@theguitarmanifesto thank you, will jump to that 😃
Go gym
How did you remove the plastic thing on the five way switch
The tip? Just pull it off
The Guitar Manifesto yeah I just got it, mine was really tight on the switch
The Guitar Manifesto thanks!
Hey thanks for the video but can’t we replace the pick guard without removing the strings?
You can but why make life hard for yourself
What color is the pickguard? Looks like a parchment but the one i bought isn't as dark.
it's vintage style mint green
Mint green as he said
I wonder too why fender don’t pain the inside of the back cavity. I figured the guitar is painted first with being solid before they make the cut out.
Could be but they don't do it with Squiers
looked better with the tortoise shell pickguard 😊
🤣🤣
Wow! I want to ask a music store to do it for me, do you think there is a chance they might mess up my guitar doing it ??? Coz it looks like open heart surgery for guitar!!
It'll be fine very straight forward to do
@@theguitarmanifesto thank you ! :))
My earlier question...Some knobs are notched so you can only put them on in one position...just to clarify
Hi mate! could you pls say which of these 3 red pickguards is the same red pickguard that you had at the first of the video?
Here you can check them out:
1)
www.greasygroove.com/proddetail.php?prod=0006-PVC
2)
www.greasygroove.com/proddetail.php?prod=0007-PVC
3)
www.greasygroove.com/proddetail.php?prod=3010-PG-P-S-C-ST
Thank you!
With that white pickguard this guitar is really beautiful.
The guy that put that turquoise style pickguard has an horrible taste and no eyes to realize what an horrible combination would it was for this guitar.
Cool, Jesus loves you btw
I suggest changing all single plys to tje ..real three ply, still wonder why some strats still arrive with a singly ply. I have a singly ply on a squiet which really looks cheap and am goinh to get a three ply after seeinh this
History lesson for you, the original 1954 Fender Stratocasters came with a 1 ply pickguard, it wasn't until 1959 Fender used a 'multi ply' pickguard.
So your opinion of it looking 'cheap' is purely in your own head, a 1954 Stratocaster certainly isn't so.
You're welcome 😁