As a way of confirming my serious suspicions of where the Floyd Rose bridge-routing was placed on the body of my Hot Rod Strat, I got out my tape-measure, set it to 25.5 Inches (it measures in both mm and inches) as per Fender Scale-length, and placed the tape measure on my Hot Rod Strat with the zero lined-up at the end of the fretboard, you can see in the pic where the 25.5 inch mark ends up over the bridge route, it definitely looks like the bridge route is a bit too close to the bridge pickup, I'm guessing it should have been positioned an extra 5-10mm away from the bridge pickup:
As a comparison, I did the same check with my Fender USA Strat, since it uses the exact same scale-length as my Hot Rod Strat, as far as I know the intonation on the Fender Strat is set accurately:
Notice where the 25.5 inch mark ends up in relation to the string-saddles on the Fender strat's bridge.
Last edited by DrNomis_44; 06-01-2018 at 01:17 PM.
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