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Installing a Shield Plate on My Seafoam Green '57 Reissue Strat

4,242 views · Published 6 December 2017 · 16:44 · Indexed 20 October 2026

Channel: millstap · 2017 · Music

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If you have one of the old '57 Reissue Strats, you may not have sufficient shielding to block radio and electromagnetic interference.  The real 1957 Strats came with a single ply pick guard with no shield plate.  I'm not sure when Fender started adding the plate.  I bought an aluminum plate from Guitar Fetish for around $12 including shipping.  It fits perfectly.  The other good thing is I cleaned up the pickup grounds and shortened the lead wires so they were not a bundled mess.  The original installer of the Texas Special pickups did not do very good work.  It is worth learning how to do this yourself so you can be sure it is done correctly.  The guitar sounds much better now since it picks up less interference from my computer.

Update:  putting tape on the pickup covers to mark their height did not work very well.  It is best to measure the heights and write them down somewhere.  When you push the pickup covers through the pickguard, the tape is moved from the original position.  .

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