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My first move would be to slacken all of the pickguard screws a couple of turns. There may be enough slack to wiggle the pickguard into the correct position.
If neither of those is the case, the next possibility is to widen the screw holes through the pickguard with a small round file.
Holes in the body not countersunk.
Excellent point - but no obstruction in the routed cavities.
Widening the screw holes in the pickguard would indeed give me the slack I’m looking for but, wouldn’t the countersunk holes once again pull the pickguard back to where the screws go into the body?
You will need to plug the holes with something as hard as the body wood or the screws will just try to 'find' the old holes again.
It's a shame that body has been so messed up... I'm assuming it's the one with the misaligned bridge screw holes as well.
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That won't be hard enough. I would use maple dowel, and make sure it's a force fit in the holes. The good news is that if they're out by about 1mm that will be right on the join between the dowels and the body, so there shouldn't be that much tendency to wander.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
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If I install one more screw the pickguard rotates clockwise / the bridge end more left.Are those distances within the limits of allowing my drill bit not to wander? Before I start drilling...
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drill hole out to 3mm
plug with a basic 3mm dowel
Re-drill
So the new hole is entirely within the dowel...?
and it’s only for pickguard screws - so non-weight bearing...
You could use small dowel , just make sure they are hard wood so the drill won't wander off .
Actually with a set of strat pickups, with the oblique orientation of the bridge pickup it does look too bad at all.
I might enlarge the bridge cutout in the pickguard on the treble side...
For the bridge pickup (52.5mm spacing) string-to-polepiece alignment of the outer two strings seems okay too.https://i.imgur.com/Ipq6cU8.jpg https://i.imgur.com/SoLVHsi.jpg https://i.imgur.com/ew98ajn.jpgWhat do you think?
I think that would mean you have less holes to plug anyway.
For what it's worth I think this version with the cream single coils looks far better than any of the previous options too. (Despite my dislike of flame tops on anything Fender-like .)
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein