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Post subject: 1999 American Standard Stratocaster Pickguard Screw Distance
Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2014 5:27 am
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Hi to all fender stratocaster user,

I need your advice regarding my American standard Strat pickguard, I want to replace the stock pickguard and last week I bough one black color but unfortunately screw distance from the body is very different.

Please help me find the correct pickguard for my strat. I have a 1999 american standard strat.

Thank you for your advice.


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Post subject: Re: 1999 American Standard Stratocaster Pickguard Screw Dist
Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2014 6:03 am
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lotjrsula wrote:
Hi to all fender stratocaster user,

I need your advice regarding my American standard Strat pickguard, I want to replace the stock pickguard and last week I bough one black color but unfortunately screw distance from the body is very different.

Please help me find the correct pickguard for my strat. I have a 1999 american standard strat.

Thank you for your advice.


Is the replacement pickguard a Fender product, or from another manufacturer? They should all be the same AFAIK, but it is not beyond possibility that Fender could have made changes.


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Post subject: Re: 1999 American Standard Stratocaster Pickguard Screw Dist
Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2014 9:49 am
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I stand corrected. I was on WD Music's website and there does in fact seem to have been some changes made around 2002 or so. I don't know what the exact measurements are, but ask your dealer if a particular pickguard would fit your Strat without modification. If it comes down to it, tough, you always fill the existing holes and re-drill to accommodate the new guard.


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Post subject: Re: 1999 American Standard Stratocaster Pickguard Screw Dist
Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2014 10:08 am
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Pickguards will still be the same. There are several types of pickguards out there, 8-hole, 11-hole 62 guards, 11 hole modern, and a couple of other 11 hole configurations. You should have a 11 hole modern pickguard pattern, so a official fender one will fit, but aftermarket ones may conform to a different 11 hole pattern :

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Post subject: Re: 1999 American Standard Stratocaster Pickguard Screw Dist
Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2014 10:30 am
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The revised 11-screw configuration was adopted in mid 1964. The only difference between it and the modern permutation is, pickguards used on vintage Strats used oval-head countersunk screws to mount the pickups and selector switch. The changeover to round-head machine screws coincided roughly with the introduction of the bullet truss-rod adjuster and the three-screw neck in mid '72.

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Post subject: Re: 1999 American Standard Stratocaster Pickguard Screw Dist
Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2014 5:18 pm
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Retroverbial wrote:
The revised 11-screw configuration was adopted in mid 1964. The only difference between it and the modern permutation is, pickguards used on vintage Strats used oval-head countersunk screws to mount the pickups and selector switch. The changeover to round-head machine screws coincided roughly with the introduction of the bullet truss-rod adjuster and the three-screw neck in mid '72.

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Pickguards made for post 2002 Made in Mexico are different though. Wd Music

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Post subject: Re: 1999 American Standard Stratocaster Pickguard Screw Dist
Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2014 5:46 pm
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Pickguards made for post 2002 Made in Mexico are different though. Wd Music


I wasn't aware of that. However, the MIM Classic Series Strats still use Fender's US-pattern pickguards as intended for their AVRI and AVS instruments.

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