This block may also replace the zinc block in Made in Japan Reissue Strats ® and Crafted in Japan Reissue Strats ®.
Made in Mexico Gold Plated Deluxe with 6 pivot bridge. Made in Mexico Classic 50s, 60s and 70s. Highway 1 Strats ® up to and including 2005. American made Reissue Strats ® (57, 62, etc). Fender ® Stratocasters ® made from 1954 to 1969. This block fits the following Strats ® with 2-7/32" string spacing without modification: Pre-CBS American Vintage Enhanced Tremolo Block Fender highway one stratocaster tremolo arm spec upgrade#
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Vintage-Style Tele ® & Esquire ® Pickguards. Vintage-Style Strat ® Pickguards & Trem Covers. Vintage-Style Pickguards & Tremolo Covers. Fender ® Strat ® Pickguards & Trem Covers. Oh and just to add fuel to the fire as far as Callaham marketing goes, a magnet will stick to the Highway One trem block, and it will also stick to the '97 American Standard trem block - so they both appear to be ferrous, not just zinc "pot metal." I do agree that something better has to be done with the wobble in the arm, but some tape dope works fine. The trem arm had lots of plating on the threads so I chased them clean with a 10-32 die removing only a hair of material, now it's very smooth.Īnd oh, what a difference it makes to chop 5/8" or 3/4" off the end of the arm and put the tip back on - the tip now sits nicely in the crook of my pinky and ring finger and I can pick the strings between the neck and middle pickup. SO I am using a trem arm with a regular 10-32 thread (must've been from a MIA strat) but as usual for any Fender bridge you need a wrap of teflon plumber's tape dope to keep the arm from wobbling (I never liked the idea of the little spring (not "screw," sorry) in the hole, I find they tend to get crushed and don't spring much, and although they hold the arm from swinging freely they don't eliminate the wobble). I can't imagine any better way to verify that the '06 upgrade Highway One with a steel trem block takes a 10-32 pitch trem arm, just like an American Standard bridge. The Imperial 10-32 screw fits into the block perfectly. 8 metric thread screw will not fit at all into the trem block of the Highway One - the threads are too fine (although the shaft seems to be roughly the same diameter as a #10 machine screw). I just got two screws from the hardware store. I notice the '06 upgrade parts list isn't available online to the public - that suggests maybe it hasn't been vetted yet for accuracy. Maybe they didn't catch up with the correct information when they changed to a steel trem block, so I can imagine the customer service guy is just sending emails based on the literature he has available. 
8 thread, then it is not the same block as the new Highway One (manufactured in September '07). Given the information here that a MIM has a metric M5 x. After all it's the trem block that has the threaded hole for the trem arm.īefore I go replacing the trem blocks and arms in both Strats with Callaham's, can anybody verify if the '06 upgrade to the Highway One strat with a steel inertia block has an Imperial 10-32 thread or some sort of metric thread that's close but not exactly the same?įender customer service assured me that the '06 upgrade Highway One strat takes the same trem arm as a standard MIM strat since they're the same bridge. To confuse matters, the Fender video for the Highway One says they changed to a steel trem block for the '06 upgrade, which suggests it's not the same as the other bridges used on MIM models.
So I'm a little concerned about using an arm that's loose or tight since over time if it's not the proper thread something's gotta give.
The new arm seems to be a 10-32 but it has lots of plating on the threads which don't appear to be very cleanly machined - it works in both blocks but feels tight. My American Standard 10-32 pitch arm from another guitar fits the Highway One just fine, although it does wobble a bit (which plagues the design I guess). It's not that the store isn't cooperative, it's just that nobody has the answer to which arm is supposed to fit.įender cust svc insists its the same arm used on the Mexican strats which supposedly has a different thread pitch than the Ameriacan Std bridge (anybody know what the thread measures on those MIM's?). Fender passed the buck to the store insisting that the axe had the right goodie bag when it left the factory. Guitar Center couldn't find the correct accessory kit for my Highway One Strat (Sept 07 manufacture, so it has the '06 upgrade), so it's anybody's guess if I have the right trem arm.
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