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Post subject: Installing Loaded Clapton Pickguard
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 5:17 am
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I am customizing an old Strat Plus. Mine has the "swimming pool" route. Can I put a loaded Clapton pickguard with that circuit in my guitar without the additional routing of the body?
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Post subject: Re: Installing Loaded Clapton Pickguard
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 5:28 am
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Yeah you can fit it in no worries. You can fit them in regular AVRI minimal routed bodies.
What I found is that unless the board is very secured and padded. You'll get noise as the board moves in the cavity.

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Post subject: Re: Installing Loaded Clapton Pickguard
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 5:33 am
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nikininja wrote:
Yeah you can fit it in no worries. You can fit them in regular AVRI minimal routed bodies.
What I found is that unless the board is very secured and padded. You'll get noise as the board moves in the cavity.


A HA!!! So I can order a loaded Clapton pickguard, and just make sure I can secure the board and battery and I am all set? Is there a website that I can go to for help?
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Post subject: Re: Installing Loaded Clapton Pickguard
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 8:59 am
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Yes Chris there is,

http://areyouexperienced.net/fender_cla ... st_kit.htm

I strongly recommend not getting a wired scratchplate. Vintage Toneless pickups are terrible. The neck pickup sounds sort of OK and makes a usable sort of faux humbucker sound with the middle pickup and tone control dialled down. The other positions are useless.
I ended up using SCN's, which ultimately sounded better. Though a little too thick with the midboost. There's now a plethora of Fender singlecoil sized humbuckers to choose from that I think may make a better platform for that sound. The board itself isn't hard to wire in.
Having a Plus, you should have Lace Sensors in it already. They sound way better than the Vintage noiseless too.

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Post subject: Re: Installing Loaded Clapton Pickguard
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 9:11 am
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nikininja wrote:
Vintage Toneless


LOLOL!

I'm not sure I go that far in characterizing the VN's but they don't sound near as authentic as the SCN's and neither of those can really compare with DiMarzio's Virtual Vintage pickups.

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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 9:14 am
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I have 3 Lace Sensors I would like to keep, but one of them is dead. I only have 2 of the three working and I can't find an old one to match...have you ever heard of a pickup dying?


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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 9:39 am
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RJ they are toneless. I hated them. I took the cheapo ceramic pickups out of my Squier Series. Bought the VN's on the way to taking the cheapo ceramics to my mate. Got home, put the VN's in. Plugged in, took the guitar apart and spent half an hour looking for what I'd done wrong.
What I'd done wrong was buy them in the first place. All three are now used as dummycoils. That or keeping notes posted on the fridge are about the best use I could find for them.


Yes it happens. Those pickups are 30 odd years old now. I'm sure you could get a Lace pickup a clapton midboost kit. A soldering iron and some solder for less than a loaded guard.

Just looking on Ebay I see a loaded guard as being $244

The kit is $51.
Lace Gold pickup $53
And cos I'm nice, here's the link
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lace-Sensor-2 ... Swh-1W6hCW

Soldering iron and solder, I can't imagine being more than $25
Though I did find this.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mercury-220-2 ... SwstxU3b7O
It must be a mistake. I can get a couple of decent mig welding rigs for $500

Saved you around $120. That kit looks daunting. However it's really not, it's pretty easy. The hardest part of the whole thing is deciding where to put the circuitboard. I really wouldn't be looking to put it between the pickups. It is prone to noise from knocks. Having it that close to the surface of the guitar, I think would exacerbate that.
And concerning the Are You Experienced page. I've put those kits in 4 guitars now. And never had to chop a corner off the board to get it in.
I strongly recommend giving up your tremolo and putting the battery in the trem cavity.

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