JIUWU HSH Loaded Pickguard Black Wired Plate for Fender Strat Guitar Replacement

I’ve had my fender strat since 2003 and I’ve changed the pickups several times, not really happy with any of them. Being a humbucker player, the HSH configuration in black for the price was worth a shot. What an incredible purchase. The tones I’m getting on my strat are incredible. The pickups have warm and depth and honestly sound more like Gibson pickups than my Les Pauls. It’s made the Strat my number 1 when gigging. In fact it’s pretty much the only guitar I use now.I did have the same issues with the screw holes not lining up but that wasn’t much of an issue. I love the sound so much I’ll probably never change pickups again. I did have to widen out the body cavity for the neck pickup because it was routed for the standard 3 single coils. That’s why there’s a little scuff by the neck pickup on the body. But it makes the guitar unique.Overall easy install, enhances the look, and has amazing tone. Definitely worth every penny, heck even more for what I’m getting out of it.

Wow! What great value for the money! I had a Squire Classic Vibe Strat that just had a very dull sound to it no matter what I did. I tried changing out pickups, new strings, pickup height etc. Nothing worked. So I purchased this product to see if a complete rewiring would make it work. I have to say, for the inexpensive price this product can’t be beat! Not only was it very easy to swap out, the sound is fantastic. I did have to do some cutting to the pocket because I was changing from an HSS to an HSH configuration. If I wasn’t doing that, it would’ve just been drop in and play. The only thing I had to do is solder up the jack and ground. It was a very simple installation. The tone is bright and crisp,exactly what I was looking for. I wouldn’t hesitate to buy it again.

I had a swimming pool routed no-name strat body and thought this H-S-H might be an interesting addition to my guitar sounds. There are no specifics about the pickups, but I suspect that they are ceramics. Installation is very easy and the claw ground and output signal leads are extra long so there is plenty of slack when connecting the ground and output jack. How does it sound? The tone controls give the pickups a pretty good range of sounds. It's not mentioned in the description, but the upper tone control controls both the neck and middle pickups and the lower tone control does the bridge.The volume control is the only problem. The moment you turn the output signal level down, even a little bit, you lose nearly all the highs and the tone gets incredibly dark. I added a standard treble bleed (parallel 1 nF capacitor and 150K ohm resistor; see photo) across the volume pot and the problem was solved completely. With this added, the pickups sound pretty darned impressive and you can control the level of distortion very well with the volume pot. I would have given this 5 stars if the treble bleed had already been installed (it should have been, IMHO), but it's a very simple thing to do and if you're already comfortable soldering in this pickguard, you have all the skills needed to add a simple treble bleed circuit. There are descriptions and videos for these all over the internet. A quick search and you'll see exactly what to do.

This is not a perfect product, but I've rated it 5 stars anyway, because of the incredible value for the money that it offers. This loaded pickguard will take your Strat knock-off or partscaster, and make it sound incredible.These are ceramic pickups, yet they sound very close to good alnico pickups. It's only the occasional high-pitched note where you notice these are indeed ceramic. It's incredible how much the bridge humbucker sounds like the Seymour Duncan humbucker I have in a real Strat. The neck humbucker booms! Positions 2 and 4 have that classic Strat "middle position" sound. The wiring is very well done. It took longer to warm up the soldering iron than it did to solder the three connections needed to get this going. You truly can't beat this in terms of value for the money.The downsides have been covered in other reviews. Those humbucker mounting screws are way too big; I've never seen a Strat-style body that could take screws that long. I just replaced them with more normal mounting screws I already had. And on my partscaster, which has a Glarry body and a mix-and-match of other parts, the pickguard screw holes didn't perfectly line up. A few holes did, others were workable, and for two screws, I had to drill new holes. But this is to be expected when working with import pickguards and/or import bodies.A question was asked before about the number of wires on the humbuckers, and someone said they were 2-wire humbuckers. This is not true; they are absolutely 4-conductor humbuckers, just with wires soldered together in series so that they easily hook up to the switch in a standard 5-way Strat configuration. But if you wanted to install different switches, you could absolutely do coil splitting. Also, the bottom tone knob controls the bridge, and the top tone controls the middle and the neck. I understand this is common in modern Strat configurations, but it was new to me as all my Strats have the classic wiring where the bridge has no tone control.Overall, this sounds great and is an incredible value for the money!