Stratocaster project

Gear & Tools Talk 🎸 Guitars, Instruments & Maintenance
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I love my MIM Fender Player series HSS Strat and I’d like to get another Strat but with SSS pickups. I’ve been thinking of getting a “cheap” but good Strat and swapping the whole pickguard with one of the Fender preloaded ones. Classic Fender pickguards come with:

  • Tex Mex
  • Fat 50
  • Texas Special
  • Custom 69
  • Noiseless

Having read about these and heard tone samples, I think I’d probably go for Fat 50s or Texas Special.

Has anyone else done something similar?
Which guitar would you start from? (Fender Player, Squire, Sire, other)
Which pickups would you choose?
(Trying to keep the budget under £800)

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I have the Texas Specials on mine. Loaded pick guard swap. Super easy. They are suposed to be hot. I totally dig them. I could tell a difference right away between them and my old EMGs. SVR helped design the Texas specials is what I read.

I dont know about the other ones.

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You should be able to get a G&L Legacy at a modest price now that they have closed down.

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