Anyone notice Fender HSS pickguards...

[jonny toetags]

I ordered a Fender HSS pickguard, and they changed their design or something.
I noticed this:

All their 2008 guitars with a humbucker in the bridge have the 2 screw thing, and so do the replacement OEM pickguards.

Now I have to hunt for a NOS Fender pickguard

 

[blackba]

That sucks, can you get one from Warmouth?

 

[jonny toetags]

That sucks, can you get one from Warmouth?

i was trying to go stock
I have 2 WDs, 1 Warmoth and one from Stewmac...they never are 100% at the bridge (there is always a gap somewhere) and the Hum cutout is too square. Fender are rounded

 

[lefchr]

drill a new hole for the pickup you have

 

[cyndicate]

Yep those 2 screw holes are stupid, I just drilled a hole between those 2, then F'd it up and bought a new one. I was lucky to find one at GC, pearloid with just 1 screw on each side in HSS config, crap costed like $50

 

[blackba]

That sucks, can you get one from Warmouth?

i was trying to go stock
I have 2 WDs, 1 Warmoth and one from Stewmac...they never are 100% at the bridge (there is always a gap somewhere) and the Hum cutout is too square. Fender are rounded

Mine Warmouth SSH pickguard fits great, rounded humbucker hole, no gaps. I am sure someone has the old pickguard for sale....

 

[messenger]

What about this
http://store.guitarfetish.com/pehsshupifiu.html

 

[jonny toetags]

What about this
http://store.guitarfetish.com/pehsshupifiu.html

I like the more rounded edges of the humbucker cutout in the OEMs.
I'm difficult

 

[jonny toetags]

That sucks, can you get one from Warmouth?

i was trying to go stock
I have 2 WDs, 1 Warmoth and one from Stewmac...they never are 100% at the bridge (there is always a gap somewhere) and the Hum cutout is too square. Fender are rounded

Mine Warmouth SSH pickguard fits great, rounded humbucker hole, no gaps. I am sure someone has the old pickguard for sale....

I might give them another try.
I told the store to keep the one they ordered

 

[squealie]

Yeah, my HSS/Floyd MIM Strat has that same dumb deal.

Also, when I went to slap a Warmoth neck in it.. which was the whole point of me buying the guitar... the pickguard kept the neck from fitting, due to the 22 fret overhang board.

I never bolted the thing back together....boo.

 

[nwright]

IIRC, Fender branded HB's and axes with them loaded in have been this way for quite some time...

 

[D-Rock]

My HWYOne Strat has that as well. I put a a SD in the bridge and had to drill a hole between the two, on the one side.

They're like that because the Fender stock Atomic/Enforcer etc.. humbuckers are now made with three adjustment screws.