I was hoping to get some ideas on my road worn 50's strat to kinda bring it up to american quality.

Note: I love the neck and the pickups.
I dont care about the looks of it accept for the smoke stained
pickguard I got a mint green one on order.

Is there anything els worth doing like maybe tunners or somthing.
Thanks for the help.

I was going to drop a Tortoise shell pickguard on mine. And then eventuall some new pups.

Had the routing been HSH or a swimming pool route, I was dropping in a creme Super Distortion and PAF Pro on a Tortoise shell pickguard. The route is SSS, So I'm looking into the Super distortion single coil.

the ones I've seen could use a little paint touch up.

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I'm not an expert, but I play one on the internet.

I see what you did there....



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With all the different Fender Strats out there now, it's hard to keep up with the hardware they are installing. I know my Classic 60's had a weak tremolo unit. Cheap metal with lousy sustain as far as the saddles go. The bridge plate was not flat, and pretty crude beveling. I replaced mine with a drop in StewMac Gotoh vintage. Mine has the original spec 2 7/32" spacing so I would check yours before ordering. The tuners were not too bad, but I replaced them anyway with Gotoh vintage with a little work.