Yeah, Thanks Bro, but taking in consideration I haven't heard from Mitch@KNE yet after a week, and based on his last reply, he too, assumed that it shouldn't be a prob , but then I explained to him that this was THE Widest neck Fender has ever done (competing with the Ibanez Super Strats at the time / first run '88 end '91) and that he should research and get back to me. From his initial response I could tell he wasn't familiar with the HM series that's why he said that it should fit. He assumed width was 2⅛ and I told him that would be a little tight when it's closer to 2¼
I don't think it's possible, really, but I don't know the capabilities of a CNC machine or programming proceedures.
For shit's & giggles I measured like you said and roughly there's a 1½" bridge difference from the HM compared to the Traditional Stratocaster.
oh...I also mentioned to Mitch that it would be No Prob to send the neck(&body) for calculations and I really don't care if they bastardize the neck pup cavity because I'm putting the neck pup right next to the neck heel. I just want it to work on a FULL size body. The HM's have less mass and most are made of Poplar. I'm at home with Alder Mohagany or the Ash's. There were some Special Alder HM's released and some were the Ultra's. I'm only a fan of the U.S./MIJ's '88,'89,'90's. After that they went to shit especially the International Series.( and the Death of the HM for good)
These are may main gigging guitars now since '88. I have Gorilla Goon hands with sausage links for fingers so that's why I prefer WIDEASS neck guitars. The only other guitar with a more wide regular production neck is the discontinued ('89-'91) 22 fret Ibanez 540P-540PII SH/HH or the UnOfficial Alex Scolnick model.
Here's the neck (&body) It's a pre-Custom Shop BUD DRY promotional guitar ( with my shitty paint job and tem cavity filled).
Fender used the HM series for that.
The only difference being the headstock decal is Traditional.
I converted this one to a traditional nut and it came out Perfecto !
The Bridge is a Poto-type DiMarzio that I got from the Rep back in '90.
The pup's are Evans like the ones SRV used in the studio for some of his recordings.
This was supposed to be my SRV trickbag guitar but I'm having Musikraft put me together a RW SB Neck matched to/with an Alder body for that.
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