I got the "black" option, with the black pickup covers and knobs, for my silver Squier Affinity Strat. The guitar originally came with a white pickguard, white pickup covers and knobs. The black looks so good against the silver body!Honestly, I'm not very handy, but within the space of an hour, I had this pre-wired pickguard installed and working just fine.I actually didn't un-solder or re-solder anything. When removing the old guard, I was careful to leave a generous length of wire remaining at each of the three locations where I needed to "snip" the already-existing connections in order to free up and remove the old guard-- these would be the positive (white) and negative (black) wires connected to the guitar's output jack, and also the black ground wire that runs back to the tremolo claw.I then matched up the two black wires and one white wire (extending from the new unit) with their "counterpart wires" running off the guitar's output jack (1 black, 1 white) and tremolo claw grounding point (1 black), carefully stripped back sufficient insulation to be able to twist each matching pair together securely, and wrapped each of those three connections with black electrical tape.I then put the new guard in place, being careful to keep all of my wire connections free from undue stress, and screwed it on; it fit nicely. I do realize that soldering skills would have come in very handy here, but I figured that once the new guard was securely in place, my "electrical tape" connections weren't goin' anywhere, so what the heck.I used the Squier this afternoon to do a solo gig at a local memory care facility, paired up with my old super-portable Roland Cube Street amplifier. Just one guitar, one voice. Sixties and seventies stuff that I grew up loving. It turned out good, and my newly upgraded Squier sounded really nice!Seems like I tend to stay parked on either the neck pickup (by itself) or the bridge pickup (by itself), depending on the song, and both of those positions sounded really good! Definitely more lively and well-defined than the original pickups. I don't often use the middle position or either of the "combination" positions-- just personal preference (although all of them sound as they should). I'm very happy with this product!