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Post subject: MiM Strat pick guards the same as other Strat pick guards?
Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 4:19 am
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Are MiM Strat pick guards the same as other Strat pick guards when its comes to the hole patterns/spacing?

I ask cause I have a sunburn MiM lefty Strat from 1996 that I want to put a tortoise pick guard on.

I'm looking for one and hoping to avoid any doubts that it will fit.

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Post subject: Re: MiM Strat pick guards the same as other Strat pick guard
Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 7:12 am
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I believe for that year it's a crap shoot. It may or may not fit, meaning the screw holes may not line up. Fender made MIM guards separate from the American versions during that time (Metric rather than US). That changed sometime in the 2000 to 2006 models. The 2 holes either side of the bridge should line up OK. The rest can be plugged in and re-drilled for the new pickguard.


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Post subject: Re: MiM Strat pick guards the same as other Strat pick guard
Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 10:36 am
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I believe for that year it's a crap shoot. It may or may not fit, meaning the screw holes may not line up. Fender made MIM guards separate from the American versions during that time (Metric rather than US). That changed sometime in the 2000 to 2006 models. The 2 holes either side of the bridge should line up OK. The rest can be plugged in and re-drilled for the new pickguard.


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I believe this to be the case. However, for the "re-issue" Classic Series Strats, those pickguards will interchange with their MIA Fender equivalents without a problem.

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Post subject: Re: MiM Strat pick guards the same as other Strat pick guard
Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 11:55 am
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I had a Mexican 96 that was my kids for a while I replaced the pickguard the pickups where different spaced but the universal route made this a no biggie.
Otherwise it fit fine.

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Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 12:04 pm
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MIM Standard Stratocasters use the same pickgaurd as the MIA American Standard Stratocaster. I have 5 loaded pickgaurds that I install in my MIM and MIA Stratocasters. I removed the EMG SA 20 loaded pickgaurd from my American Standard Strat and installed it on my MIM Standard Stratocaster.
My EMG SA 20 pickups loaded in my MIA American Standard Strat
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The same EMG loaded pickgaurd installed in my MIM Standard Strat. Perfect fit.
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Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 12:19 pm
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This was only difference on mine it was stuff that didn't mater because universal route.
Middle pickup was off and mini tap switch instead of tone.

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Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 3:56 pm
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All of my Fender Strat pickgaurds are "Fender" pickgaurds and they fit both MIM Standard and MIA American Standard guitars. All pickups line up the same and are in the same location. The only pick up that would be different is the humbucker bridge pick. The Bridge pickup is not slanted like the single coil bridge pickup.


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Post subject: Re: MiM Strat pick guards the same as other Strat pick guard
Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 6:09 pm
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otis66 wrote:
All of my Fender Strat pickgaurds are "Fender" pickgaurds and they fit both MIM Standard and MIA American Standard guitars. All pickups line up the same and are in the same location. The only pick up that would be different is the humbucker bridge pick. The Bridge pickup is not slanted like the single coil bridge pickup.



In the 90s they moved the middle pickup location on MIM and MIA as they both had universal routs see the image above.
It will not affect buying one and putting it on his guitar but if someone took a 90s HSS pickguard and tried to use it on a 2000 up strat it wont work.

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Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 8:13 pm
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According to Pickguards.com post 2002 MIM guards are different from current ones.

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Post subject: Re: MiM Strat pick guards the same as other Strat pick guard
Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 8:26 pm
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cvilleira wrote:
According to Pickguards.com post 2002 MIM guards are different from current ones.


So maybe it was 2002 they changed? Thanks good to know the when and where.

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Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2013 1:27 am
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THANKS FOR ALL THE INFO GUYS!! ITS A HUGE HELP

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Post subject: Re: MiM Strat pick guards the same as other Strat pick guard
Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2013 1:32 am
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So any stick lefty Fender pick guard before 2002 will work with my 1995-96 MIM Strat?


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