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Post subject: Building a Strat?
Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 2:17 pm
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Hello, I am building a strat from the ground up. I started with an 2007 American deluxe body. I bought off e-bay a custom shop pickguard and went to install it with the SCN pickups and found out the middle opening does not allign with the center routing which is off by about a 1/4 inch on the top. I really like the pickguard so my question is does it hurt the body to take off the 1/4 inch or so on the top of the middle or should I start from scratch on the pickguard which will cost me about $50 bucks.

Any advice would be appreciated.

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Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 2:35 pm
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I think it will really depend on what you wanna do .... I dont think that expanding the middle hole a little bit will hurt the body since I have done it to one of my guitars to fit a hum in the neck position.... but also some people would rather replacing the pickguard instead of touching the body.. so it really is up to you I see no problem about touching the body.... :)


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Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 7:17 pm
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Something very strange about that. If both the body and the pickguard are Fender then they should match like a hand in a glove. Quarter of an inch out? Something's badly wrong.

I'm not at all out to insult your intelligence here, merely to help. But are you certain the misfit is not just a stray wire getting in the way, or one of the pickup screws snagging on something as it goes in? Try removing the middle pickup and placing the pickguard in position, so's you can see clearly what's going on through the now vacant middle pickup hole in the pickguard.

Do the mounting screw holes in the 'guard line up exactly with those in the body, by the way?

How certain are you of the origin of these parts? Are they really what they claim to be?

Before altering either part, I'd want to be certain which one is wrong. Try mounting the pickguard on a legit Fender body, and also placing a known Fender loaded pickguard onto this new body. That will help ascertain which one has the problem. Then take it from there.

Be most interested to hear more...

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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 8:37 am
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Ceri wrote:
Something very strange about that.


Yes, it is.

It makes me wonder how many times that defective pickguard has been bought and sold on eBay?!!!

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Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 5:57 pm
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The body is a 2007 american deluxe with HSH cutouts for any variation of pickups. The pickguard is a fender custom shop pickguard and the holes all lineup but the middle pickup cutout hole is just a bit higher up then the cutout on the standard sss pickguard. the pickguard says 099-2145-000 as the custom shop part. 1HB/2SC on the package


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Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 6:24 pm
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Try buying another pickguard

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Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 8:52 pm
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Ha! I've had a number of strats, and pickguards form various makers, including Fender and Allparts. Even if you get the correct number of holes, they rarely line up EXACTLY the same. Some will be too close to drill another hole, but far enough away to make the screw go in crooked :)

Have fun with those, I've been through that many times.


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Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 6:53 am
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dgonz wrote:
Ha! I've had a number of strats, and pickguards form various makers, including Fender and Allparts. Even if you get the correct number of holes, they rarely line up EXACTLY the same. Some will be too close to drill another hole, but far enough away to make the screw go in crooked :)


Yeah, but a middle pickup hole that is out by a quarter of an inch is another thing again than just screw holes that are slightly off. The bod or the p/g ain't the real deal: that's the bottom line.

I've seen stuff sold on Ebay with the words "Custom Shop" attached that had clearly never been anywhere near Fender's Custom Shop. Joe Blog's kitchen table custom shop, more like...

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