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Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 12:17 pm
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My Left Handed late 2006 Highway 1 Strat does not have any holes like that.


Chet, wouldnt there be a different jig for lefthanded guitars?
Ofcourse there would still need to be something to hold the guitar in place during routing. Perhaps there are doweled nail holes like on a couple of orvilleowners guitars. Im sure i can see a doweled hole underneath the scratchplate on my 57 hotrod too.
My baja tele has neck pocket and under guard holes pretty much exactly the same as my mexican strat body had. Not the 3 holes together like the OP's guitar.

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My Left Handed late 2006 Highway 1 Strat does not have any holes like that.


Chet, wouldnt there be a different jig for lefthanded guitars?
Ofcourse there would still need to be something to hold the guitar in place during routing. Perhaps there are doweled nail holes like on a couple of orvilleowners guitars. Im sure i can see a doweled hole underneath the scratchplate on my 57 hotrod too.
My baja tele has neck pocket and under guard holes pretty much exactly the same as my mexican strat body had. Not the 3 holes together like the OP's guitar.


Though I remember a while back on a thread about left-hand guitars somebody said that with a CNC machine it should just be a matter of telling the computer to switch all the numbers around mirror fashion and a left-hand guitar would pop out. Is that right, 63supro?

I wonder if other left-handed Strats have the mysterious holes? Or perhaps it's just Highway Ones that are made by a different method, along with the reissues. Anyone got the holes on a right-handed HWY-1?

Wouldn't it be great if someone from the factory could just tell us the answer?

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nikininja wrote:
CAFeathers wrote:
My Left Handed late 2006 Highway 1 Strat does not have any holes like that.


Chet, wouldnt there be a different jig for lefthanded guitars?
Ofcourse there would still need to be something to hold the guitar in place during routing. Perhaps there are doweled nail holes like on a couple of orvilleowners guitars. Im sure i can see a doweled hole underneath the scratchplate on my 57 hotrod too.
My baja tele has neck pocket and under guard holes pretty much exactly the same as my mexican strat body had. Not the 3 holes together like the OP's guitar.


Yes, there would be an opposite jig. The pickguard is off of my Highway 1 and I see no holes for that purpose.

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I read the news today, oh boy
10,000 holes in blackburn lancashire.
500,000 in corona california
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nikininja wrote:
I read the news today, oh boy
10,000 holes in blackburn lancashire.
500,000 in corona california
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That's good..................

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i dunno mate. I think simon cowell would have a few things to say about it. :(

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Fender with holes in the wood :?:
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FENDER pest infestation series.

It could be their new metal series of guitars :D

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Hi C,

Next time I give a reaction, I will look much better. Now I see that my Strat body has two holes too. :oops: My apologies. There is a hole in the neckpocket too. So there is a definite pattern.

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nikininja wrote:
Perhaps there are doweled nail holes like on a couple of orvilleowners guitars. Im sure i can see a doweled hole underneath the scratchplate on my 57 hotrod too.


the Lefthanded guitars did have different router "pin" holes than the Righthanded guitars, I don't know why.

The dowels on vintage guitars just show that Strats (and probably all other Fenders) had holes for routing jigs from Day One!

I like the way they do it now: hide the holes under the pickguard (even though they are much larger holes), instead of "out in the open" when they plugged the holes with dowels and tried to hide them with the paint.

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No holes in my Highway 1. I had the pickguard off when I added a new loaded pickguard.

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