I am looking at a MIM Deluxe Roadhouse Strat that says comes with 3 Texas Special pups and a Deluxe Lonestar MIM Strat that comes w 2 Texas Specials and a Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates Bridge.
I wonder if these are the same that come on the American Special Strat or are they a cheaper version?

Those pickups are the same. You'll find the narrow nut and bridge width of the MIM guitars leave the high e string off from the top of the pole on the neck pickup.... Adding a little tint to the neck, better electronics, and a full size tremolo block, and you have a Deluxe MIM Strat.... Don't get me wrong. The strat in my avatar is a Roadhouse body with a Lonestar neck. Swap some chrome for gold hardware, and you have a killer guitar!

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You know, that's a good question. The Texas Specials used to come with a chrome Custom Shop sticker on them (when purchased as a set, not in a guitar). Did Fender stop making them in the Custom Shop? Or do they make them in the Custom Shop and their "regular" shop? Do they also make them in Mexico?

If they made them with the same parts and prescription (by this I mean the number of turns and potting, etc), would they all be close enough to the same?

I don't know.

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