strat shaped guitars with no pick guard
While I'm happy with my Yamaha Pacifica PAC112VM and it absolutely works for me, it does have a pick guard. Granted, it only covers the middle and neck pickups along with the selector switch, but still, that disqualifies it from the "super easy to maintain" category.
Truly super-easy Strat shape guitars have no pick guard at all because you can access the electronics for maintenance from the rear via small panels, so let's look at those.
This was (and still is) an adventure, and not one I wanted to take.
I recently griped about Stratocaster design in how it's such an annoyance to clean the volume and tone pots. The cap I'm about to describe might be a solution. Maybe.
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My phone case looks nasty, but it's what happens when a phone case gets used because these things obviously don't last forever.