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So, I'm curious. You got your

MIM Road Worn: 3 Single Coil Route - One CNC

Hole

American Standard: HSH Route(a little different

from the two below) - One CNC Hole

MIM Standard: Same HSH Route - Three CNC

Holes

MIM Road Worn Player: Same HSH Route -

Three CNC Holes

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That's the
hold down' points of the machine that cuts and
shapes the bodies. No special reason for why
they are where they are or how many, other than
they must not show when assembled.

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apparently.

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That's the
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the bodies. No special reason for why they are where
they are or how many, other than they must not show
when assembled.

I've got two Strats without them, I think it's two

at least. I know that my FR Std has none and I
believe my Blacktop has none. Both have pool
routes.

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ive always wondered why those holes were

there, but how come some strats have none of
those holes at all?

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I was curious about the Road Worns & Road

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Well, my 1976 doesn't have any. And pickup

routes are tighter, more rounded and closer to
the shape of the single coil pickups. Also the
wiring runs down the center line of the body, and
again is a pretty tight cavity, so the wires are
neatly bundled from the factory.

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looking for.

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Lets hope the OP already found the answer he is

looking for.

Its been 4 years

LOL, got me.

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They are guides for the CNC machine, apparently.

I don't agree.

I think they're for rapid ID in a manufacturing and

assembly facility where different models are
being manufactured side by side. This enables
snap identification of bodies during shaping,
sanding, coating and polishing, and later
throughout assembly. The labels are nice but
they're not always affixed yet and they're small
and it takes too much time during some phases
of the operation to be looking at those labels
when you can ID a body so quickly with these
"crop circle" holes.

The way I see it, there's simply too many Fender

production models with no holes of this kind at
all, and yet those are successfully CNC'd.
Likewise, guys like Allparts and Warmoth and
Guitar Mill and USACG successfully CNC
masses of guitar bodies and don't employ holes
like these at all. I understand the small pin router
holes on the contemporary Fender Custom Shop
reproductions of old 50s and 60s guitars are just
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