Positioning the Pickups

One thing the ES-335 style guitar and the Fender Stratocaster have in common with the neck pickup is the placement along the scale length. On the Strat, the neck pickup is placed at the 24th fret position, or specifically, one fourth of the scale length. On an ES-335 style guitar, the screw lug of the humbucker is placed at the 24th fret position.

Since my project guitar is a effectively a Fender Strat, choosing a pickguard that places the pickups in the proper location is the first key to trying to achieve the tones that I want.

This link: http://www.till.com/articles/PickupResponse/index.html provides tones of useful information on pickup placement.

I have purchased a 2 humbucker pickguard for a Strat from AllParts that appears to have the pickups in the proper locations. Since the Strat is a 25 and 1/2 inch scale length, I need the neck pickup to be 6 and 3/8 inches from the bridge.