Squier Affinity strat modification!

  The Squier Affinity series guitars and basses are decent quality instruments even though they are considered "entry level" ones. The wood and hardware used on Affinity strat and tele style guitars is pretty decent. The electrics and pickups are usually the weakest links. Therefore, many affinity owners decide to modify their guitars by replacing the stock pickups and maybe even fit a totally new loaded pickguard on them.
 By the way, here's a nice review of the affinity telecaster and a few mods:
http://www.alexisgearstuff.com/squier-affinity-telecaster.html

  In this case, I got this nice affinity stratocaster project which was playing great but didn't have any of the stock electrics on. The body cavities were carefully shielded with copper tape and this could give the guitar a noise free performance.
 All I wanted to place on this guitar was a single bridge humbucker and a 500K log volume control. I know, it's a minimal pickup layout but it sounds fat and pure. So, I ordered a nice single hum pickguard from TNT custom guitars USA (also known as "Dragonfire guitars") and a 500Kohm audio taper (log) pot.
 The pickup used here is a 700T Epiphone ceramic-8 one and it's pretty hot! You can spot some of these used and they are maybe some of the hottest pickups Epi makes today:
http://rowbinet.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/gibson-epiphone-pickups2.jpg

 The wiring was pretty easy and the guitar was set up and ready to play within an hour. The tone is amazing and the guitar sounds like an 80's USA Superstrat through a high gain Bogner amp (I 've got a Fender HM Strat USA and a Gibson U2). The setup is also quite good even though this Squier has small frets.

Here are a few pictures of this guitar project:

 A high-gain company!