Obsolete American Standard Fretwire

ditchboy

Has anybody ever heard of this? It’s named on a shop floor traveller document on a Strat I have seen. Everything else on the guitar looks pretty much perfect but I’ve never heard of these before. Any idea what they might be the equivalent of?

SteveRobinson

It's 0.1" wide, equivalent to Stewmac #154.

ditchboy

Is that MJ?

fretfinder

ditchboy said:

Is that MJ?

I always thought American Standards did use medium jumbos.

Tannin

Ahem .... All of the American standards are obsolete. Quarts, rods, furlongs, acre-feet, ounces, fluid ounces, pounds, inches, bushels, long hundredweight, short hundredweight, stock prices in eighths,  feet, calories, mil, statute miles, weird sized teaspoons nobody else in the entire world uses, undersized cups and gallons, fifths as a measure of volume, temperature in degrees Fahrenheit, foot-pounds, BTU, PSI, inches of mercury, ridiculous backward dates, AWG, ounces as a unit of distance (yes, really! 1 ounce = 0.4mm. Look it up), non-standard bolt sizes, non-standard thread pitches. Did I mention bushels? Not content with using a prehistoric unit, they have three of them, all different. It just goes on and on. 

RobG3294

The word obsolete is banded around on Fender CS travellers quite often - really it's a bit of a misnomer (as is a lot of the jargon on said travellers). Just means no longer in widespread use, rather than no longer in production (i.e. actually obsolete). 
Besides - Fender don't make their own fret wire. Hence why you see Dunlop, Jescar and Sanko all used widespread on the Custom Shop stuff. They don't disclose the manufacturer on most production models (and certainly didn't on American Standards, but it was 'medium jumbo' as previously stated). 

ditchboy

Thanks everyone. It was a strange traveller document, but the instruments coa was from 2006. There was information missing on the traveller though, it didn’t have anything next to some of the hardware for example. It was just left blank - personally I’ve never seen that before either. 

guitars4you

SteveRobinson said:

It's 0.1" wide, equivalent to Stewmac #154.

without looking is that close to 6130 - fading gray matter but thought Std USA models had 6130

guitars4you

guitars4you said:

SteveRobinson said:

It's 0.1" wide, equivalent to Stewmac #154.

without looking is that close to 6130 - fading gray matter but thought Std USA models had 6130

Just found the answer to my own statement question - 6130 are 106/36 size which is close to Stewmac #146

#154 is 100/50 so a touch wider

My gut feeling is that AM Standard models used 6130's - But a) I might eb wrong and b) Fender might have changed spec a tad 

Greatape

guitars4you said:

guitars4you said:

SteveRobinson said:

It's 0.1" wide, equivalent to Stewmac #154.

without looking is that close to 6130 - fading gray matter but thought Std USA models had 6130

Just found the answer to my own statement question - 6130 are 106/36 size which is close to Stewmac #146

#154 is 100/50 so a touch wider

My gut feeling is that AM Standard models used 6130's - But a) I might eb wrong and b) Fender might have changed spec a tad 

Wasn't it '6150'?

Dim memory of this ..

guitars4you

Greatape said:

guitars4you said:

guitars4you said:

SteveRobinson said:

It's 0.1" wide, equivalent to Stewmac #154.

without looking is that close to 6130 - fading gray matter but thought Std USA models had 6130

Just found the answer to my own statement question - 6130 are 106/36 size which is close to Stewmac #146

#154 is 100/50 so a touch wider

My gut feeling is that AM Standard models used 6130's - But a) I might eb wrong and b) Fender might have changed spec a tad 

Wasn't it '6150'?

Dim memory of this ..

PRS use 6150 a lot, but Fender AM Standard tag it as medium jumbo - I'm sure 6130's is a regular gauge