Fender Pickguards OEM

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Photos and Information about Fender Stratocaster OEM pickguards

Last Rev: 2024.04.08

My searches and information require that I know where pickguards came from, what model and what mods. But is more of a challenge when that pickguard is taken away from the Fender Stratocaster body. How do you know it’s unmodified, original or authentic?

MODSHOP

This is a great place to start.

Mod shop pickguards can have any pickups, be any color and have different wiring jobs depending on who (in Fender) made it.

Some things are typical:

  • They have MODSHOP cheesy looking stickers on them.
    • I think they started doing this later, I have a few mod shops and they didn’t have these stickers on them
  • They can have any pickups so you might have to refer to pickup identification guide.
  • They may include little PC boards.
  • The use VINTAGE DISH pots
  • White wires are typically used
  • The “jumper” wires are like the 2000’s phone cable smaller wires with stripes on them.
  • The wires to the jack are BLACK and WHITE
  • They use hot irons to TYPICALLY the solder joint is a shiny blob, they do tend to always have good solder joints.
  • They have a ground wire on all the pots that ground them together.

Yosemite pickup switch with a NECK add pickup switch and what looks to be a greasebucker circuit.