Post by ozboomer on Jun 20, 2011 7:56:18 GMT -5
'lo all...
I'm working on a couple of projects at the moment and I'm after a black and a brown tortoiseshell rear cover plate to suit a Squier Affinity strat (so, 2 plates).
I've already tried dealing with 3 or 4 of the... 'more well-known on-line sellers'... and in all cases, they've sent me the wrong thing. Their listings talk about the plates being suitable for 'import' or 'Asian' guitars but they seem to be confused... and they won't go and measure the hole spacing on the cover plates for me either.
Now, don't misunderstand -- I accept that the mounting holes for the cover plates will not match-up; that's just like the pickguard on the front of the guitar -- almost NONE of the 6 or 8 pickguards I've bought in the last couple of years lined-up perfectly with the previous pickguard's holes.
No, the issue is that the rear plates string holes are at the wrong spacing. The string spacing on a Fender Stratocaster Standard tremolo bridge is 11.3mm. However, for the 'Asian' Squiers, for example, the spacing is actually 10.5mm. This means that by the time you measure-out the 6 string holes, the last hole will be in error by ~4mm or ~5/32".
Perhaps a diagram will help. What follows is what I need, having the smaller string spacing and the offset central mounting holes:-
...and you'll note I want to get the '6-hole' version, not the 'single, wide hole' version.
So, if anyone knows of an on-line seller who can supply something suitable (at the $5 mark or something, that is -- I am NOT going to pay upwards of $30 for a little bit of plastic, thank you!), I'd appreciate hearing about it...
...unless someone would like to go shopping at their local market/guitar seller for me
Fanx!
John
I'm working on a couple of projects at the moment and I'm after a black and a brown tortoiseshell rear cover plate to suit a Squier Affinity strat (so, 2 plates).
I've already tried dealing with 3 or 4 of the... 'more well-known on-line sellers'... and in all cases, they've sent me the wrong thing. Their listings talk about the plates being suitable for 'import' or 'Asian' guitars but they seem to be confused... and they won't go and measure the hole spacing on the cover plates for me either.
Now, don't misunderstand -- I accept that the mounting holes for the cover plates will not match-up; that's just like the pickguard on the front of the guitar -- almost NONE of the 6 or 8 pickguards I've bought in the last couple of years lined-up perfectly with the previous pickguard's holes.
No, the issue is that the rear plates string holes are at the wrong spacing. The string spacing on a Fender Stratocaster Standard tremolo bridge is 11.3mm. However, for the 'Asian' Squiers, for example, the spacing is actually 10.5mm. This means that by the time you measure-out the 6 string holes, the last hole will be in error by ~4mm or ~5/32".
Perhaps a diagram will help. What follows is what I need, having the smaller string spacing and the offset central mounting holes:-
...and you'll note I want to get the '6-hole' version, not the 'single, wide hole' version.
So, if anyone knows of an on-line seller who can supply something suitable (at the $5 mark or something, that is -- I am NOT going to pay upwards of $30 for a little bit of plastic, thank you!), I'd appreciate hearing about it...
...unless someone would like to go shopping at their local market/guitar seller for me
Fanx!
John
