A client wanted his favorite guitar documented so I pulled it apart, took photos and wrote down some notes for him. It's a 2000 Mexi Strat body with a Tele neck that he put together.

The pickguard is loaded with Fender ’57/‘62 pickups measuring 6.42K (neck), 6.45K (middle non-RWRP), 6.45K (bridge). The middle pickup is non-reverse wound / non-reverse polarity so it is not hum cancelling in positions 2 and 4.

Some details of the audio path components:

Master volume, neck & middle p/u tone, bridge p/u tone, 5-way switch
250K audio taper CTS volume pot “GTR ELEC 250KA CTS 0519”
250K linear taper CTS tone pots “EP4985 250K 0521"
Sprague Vitamin Q 0.033 µf tone cap (shared)

The bridge is a Callaham Mexican Std vibrato bridge and arm.

The MIM Tele neck's details:

Indian Rosewood fingerboard with 9.5"R
0.870" thick, 1-5/8" wide @ 1st fret
0.910" thick, 2" wide @ 12th fret
frets 0.103" wide by 0.048" tall
vintage style locking tuners

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A local player for a funk band picked up this made in Japan Strat years ago and loves how it plays, but not so much on how it sounds. He found the original pickups to be lacking output (all pickups 6.0k) so he brought it by the shop to install new guts under the pickgaurd. The new pickups he supplied are GFS 1963 Strat Texas wound pickups with their outputs reading 6.1k (neck), 6.5k (middle - RW/RP) and 8.6k in the bridge. The middle pickup's "RW/RP" stands for "reverse wound / reverse polarity" which means that it is hum cancelling when combined with the neck or bridge pickup (positions 2 & 4 on the 5-way switch). He also supplied CTS pots, a 0.022 µf Orange Drop tone cap, new 5-way switch and Switchcraft output jack.

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on the bench

Fender Strat body - Tele neck [8.0 lbs] :: document

Component swap :: 1986 Fender MIJ Stratocaster Contemporary [7.9 lbs]

Made in Mass, not mass made.

LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS