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Help upgrading my Fender Stratocaster Player Series

Hi! I'm looking to upgrade stuff on my Player Stratocaster eventually. Was looking at Mastery stuff, but they only make things for offsets it seems, so I was wondering if there was an equally good supplier making stuff for strats, that will fit my Player Series without too much hassle (I know some American Customs have other specs as to where the holes on the scratch plate are for example, and I dont have too many tools to be able to fix things like that).

Looking for things like: - Locking tuners - Bone/tusk nut - Knobs - Saddles - Trem-block/trem system - Electronics

All hardware in chrome

Thank you so much for your help, really appreciate it!

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  • Fender Tone Master Deluxe Reverb Blonde
  • Electronic Audio Experiments Longsword
  • Blank slot

Rutters, Callaham... I usually talk to rutters.

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  • Gibson SG Standard
  • Vox AC30 Guitar Combo Amp

Thank you! Do they sell things that fit a Player Series? (I'm kinda new to the whole upgrade game, just don't want to buy American-speced parts, and then find out my Player only fits Mexican-speced parts. Is this an issue I am right in concerning myself over?)

GEAR:
  • Fender Tone Master Deluxe Reverb Blonde
  • Electronic Audio Experiments Longsword
  • Blank slot

Everything is either imperial or metric. Know what you have and order appropriately. Mark Rutters will help you. Great guy.

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  • Roland Juno-6
  • Gibson SG Standard
  • Vox AC30 Guitar Combo Amp

And most decent Mexicans use american parts. Its Asian guitars that use metric. Ask Rutters

GEAR:
  • Roland Juno-6
  • Gibson SG Standard
  • Vox AC30 Guitar Combo Amp

thank you so much!

GEAR:
  • Fender Tone Master Deluxe Reverb Blonde
  • Electronic Audio Experiments Longsword
  • Blank slot

Interisting ideas for a Strat:

Longer Tremolo Arm for "Glide Guitar" (Techniqe where you hold the Trem while strumming and it makes a wavering sound).

You could replace the 5-Way Blade Switch with 2 3-Way Toggle-Switches for different pickup selection settings.

Strap Locks.

You could get rid of the regular Tremolo and put a Floating Tremolo on and do somthing weird with the cavity.

Piezo Pickups (Pickups which pick up the vibration of the Body insted of the Strings).

Buy a Scalloped Neck (Fretboard with wood shelled out between the Frets so that the string only touches the Fret and no wood).

I know not all of these are easy but it's just my thoughts.

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for pickups if you want CLASSIC tones at a good price contact my friend Ken at Angeltone pickups

one of my strats is heavily modded with brian may wiring, a straight bridge pickup, custom everything, but you don't have to go that far over the top. Frankly I haven't even changed more than the bridge on my robert cray, sounds fine

GEAR:
  • Roland Juno-6
  • Gibson SG Standard
  • Vox AC30 Guitar Combo Amp

Buy a Scalloped Neck (Fretboard with wood shelled out between the Frets so that the string only touches the Fret and no wood).

Thanks Yngwie LOL

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  • Roland Juno-6
  • Gibson SG Standard
  • Vox AC30 Guitar Combo Amp